Filmmaking Movies

About Jösta Hagelbäck (1945-2009), Swedish film director, writer, poet, musician, actor etc. A human bipolar mixture of genius and madman....

The main character has a dream: he wants to become a director. On his way to achieving it, he faces many challenges, and the hardest one is his...

Two film students with one week left to make their senior project need $10,000 to hire Nicolas Cage to star in their film.

Filmed mostly on a Mini DV camera Gavin has thought of a quick way to become successful and be the master of the world but he has to wait for it all...

The actors in My Wife's Relations (1922) are discussed in this documentary.

When up and coming actor Allen Stevens lands a role in an over-the-top, pretentious art film directed by the self-obsessed auteur Arthur Reginald...

An introverted screenwriter slowly starts to go insane while working on his new film.

Frédérique has obtained a firm commitment for the financing of her film on excision. At the last moment, however, the bank withdrew....

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, pinpoints the locations...

After failing an audition, a self-conscious actress finds herself in a terrifying role.

In 1978, two South Korean filmmakers--Director Shin Sang-ok and his star actress and ex-wife, Choi Eun-hee--were abducted and smuggled into North...

Explore the legend of Hollywood’s most celebrated cat, Orangey, in this adaptation of Dan Sallitt’s essay of the same name. The prolific...

Amazing, but true: Fort Lee, New Jersey (just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan), was once the epicenter of American film...

A documentary showing Norman McLaren working on the hand-drawn sound process he uses for his short film, Loops.

In the midst of directing a film rehearsal and the departure of his partner, a homesick student filmmaker living abroad reconnects with his family...

A short documentary on the lives of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and the making of the film, Three Little Words.

A short documentary on Buster Keaton's The Frozen North (1922), regarding how the events of Fatty Arbuckle's trial and William S. Hart's quick...

In the spirit of "American Movie" and "Be Kind Rewind," Double Digits introduces us to inspiring, fifty-year-old YouTuber Richard Miller as he...