Movies: Filmmaking

The Meltdown Memoirs depicts the production of the movie Street Trash along with cast and crew interviews 20 years later....

Tells the story of Tucson and the legendary movies that were shot there....

In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, set out from Cornwall with the aim of recording life on the road between Land’s End and John O’Groats. Entitled The Open Road, his remarkable travelogue was conceived as ...

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 divorce from his family. But he doesn’t give up and finally reaches his dream. Now, he must win his family...

Filmmaker Alexander Freeman who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of two, was raised by his loving and supportive parents but the one thing he has always wanted was to be in a loving relationship with a woman and to have a family of his ow...

Against a collage of excerpts that span thirty-four films, a filmmaker reflects on the community he has built over more then a decade of low-budget movie making in Oklahoma City....

A fledgling young actor has finally secured a part in a promising production, but disagreements between the director and producer threaten to derail the project—and his career....

A brief look at the history of "Homicide: Life on the Street", one of the best shows on television and its ratings history as well as some of the people on the show, as well as behind the camera. The primary focus of this PBS documentary is the "Subw...

An exploration of the intricate art of filmmaking, delving into the multifaceted stages of scriptwriting, cinematography, and meticulous final editing. It provides a behind-the-scenes journey, unraveling the creative and technical complexities that b...

Two estranged friends, Chloe and Brooklyn, break down after fleeing the home of Micheal Davis, renowned Children’s Author, where he’s presumably been murdered. Brook attempts to take care of both the broken down car, Sabrina, and the wounded Chloe su...

A short documentary on the making of the 1946 film Ziegfeld Follies....

An aspiring young actress trying to break into the film industry crosses paths with a miserable arthouse filmmaker to produce a film which manages to challenge both of their resolve to survive in the film industry....

A documentary about the career of director Jack Arnold at Universal-International Studios. (An early version of this film, only 20 minutes in length, was screened in 2012.)...

Anger discusses his Aleister Crowley-inspired theories of art: How he views his camera like a wand and how he casts his films, preferring to consider his actors, not human beings but as elemental spirits. In fact, he reveals that he goes so far as to...

A short documentary about the making of D. W. Griffith's controversial 'The Birth of a Nation'....

Loving documentary about the invisible hand that brings light in the cinema: the projectionist. Momentarily, his booth is at the centre of this film, which primarily looks back on the time when you could still touch film images. "Do pay attention to ...

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Video interview with Ford's grandson, Dan Ford about the director and his home movies....

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A group of high school boys attempt to create a movie during the summer before college starts and before they go their separate ways....