Chen Arvin was born in Boston and grew up in a suburb of the Bay Area, first aspiring to be a comic book artist, then a rock guitar player, and eventually an architect. After graduating from architecture school, he moved back to Taiwan to apprentice with filmmaker Edward Yang (Yiyi), before going to...
Read More »Michael Noer doesn't know what he'd be doing if he wasn't making movies. Having started at film school at the age of 19, he has been creating documentary and fictional films ever since. He shared that he relates to the protagonist of his latest film "Northwest," in that he's also trying to find out ...
Read More »Narrated by a host of actors including Ben Whishaw and Jena Malone and boasting a score from Deerhunter's Bradford Cox, documentarian Matt Wolf's ("I Remember") third feature, "Teenage," is stylish blend of archival footage and 16 mm recreations masquerading as period film. Wolf's doc is a detailed ...
Read More »Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's career together began with their first documentary feature "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt," winning the Documentary Feature Oscar in 1990. Since then they have hardly faltered with the release of multiple award winners such as "The Celluloid Clos...
Read More »Steph Green first caught our attention as the director of the Oscar-nominated short film "New Boy," adapted from a Roddy Doyle short story. Her follow-up feature, "Run & Jump," will hit the Tribeca Film Festival on April 20th, and we have an exclusive first look at the poster for the film starring W...
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Claudio Giovannesi studied film directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy’s national cinema school. After graduating, he sneaked onto the sets of Matteo Garrone, the director of "Gomorra," to see how he worked. Giovannesi believes in taking a documentary-type approach to his fict...
Read More »Filmmaking is a family affair for brother and sister duo Leonard Retel Helmrich and Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich. Hetty’s son Jasper has worked for them, editing their last two films, "Position Among The Stars," which won awards at IDFA and Sundance and was acquired by HBO. The three are back with...
Read More »Jonathan Gurfinkel grew up surrounded by film thanks to his father, a cinematographer. Realizing that his personal experience with the medium trumped a formal education, Gurfinkel decided to drop out of high school to pursue his own film career. He partners with Rona Segal as his screenwriter who wa...
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Jason Osder is an educator in and beyond the classroom. He is an assistant professor of media and public affairs at The George Washington University and a partner at Amigo Media. Amigo does color-correction for film and television in addition to Apple and Adobe certified training and consulting. He ...
Read More »Darren Stein was once a G.B.F. in his youth -- a Gay Best Friend to a teenage girl. "G.B.F.", the latest film from the director of 1999's "Jawbreaker," is one of the first teen comedies that follows a gay protagonist. The film, which was recently our Project of the Day, features newcomers including ...
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