This is an interview with a Guatemalan resident of Lynn, Massachusetts. For safety reasons, his name has been changed to Sebastian Martinez. This interview recounts Sebastian’s experiences...
We're delighted to announce that we're launching a podcast series featuring interviews with interesting, engaging, thought-provoking and progressive thinkers, artists, and decision-makers in...
Premiering at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival – and screening the upcoming Austin Film Festival on October 15th and 19th – Dr. Feelgood: Dealer or Healer? couldn’t be making the...
Based on Eric Schlosser’s book of the same name, Command and Control marks the second time Peabody and Emmy-winning director Robert Kenner has worked with the NY Times bestselling author – the...
For nearly a decade and a half, The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has been a hub of cutting edgy innovation. (Just check out my interview with Mariah MacCarthy about last year’s inaugural...
I first met Danish director Andreas Koefoed remotely when I programmed his nonfiction tale of international intrigue The Arms Drop at the 2015 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Later I had the...
xIn January I had the pleasure of attending the truly unique DocPoint Helsinki as this year’s Critic’s Choice critic. (And I mean truly unique. How many documentary film festivals feature a sauna...
“Filmmaking really messes with your space-time continuum”: Van Neistat on “A Space Program” Matt Damon’s space-stranded botanist ain’t got nothing on world-renowned artist Tom...
Have you ever been exoticized? I have been exoticized by people and have exoticized other people quite a few times. People from South of Italy make jokes about people from North of Italy, and the...
For co-directors Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, their 13-years-in-the-making “American Promise” may have fulfilled every indie filmmaker’s American Dream. Since winning the Jury Award at...