Movies: Filmmaking

The Making of It's Always Fair Weather with footage and discussion by historians and participants....

Jeppy Bass is the story of a college student's struggles to make his thesis short film, entitled 'Damn Fine Cup'. After getting a behind-the-scenes look into the efforts taken to produce the film, we get a brief glimpse into the dark psyche of the fi...

Dwij and his friends are tasked to make a short film under 40 hours....

Two-part documentary about French director Jacques Tati chronicles the evolution of the filmmaker's alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, through archival interviews, on-set footage, photos, and film clips....

A group of frustrated actors, writers and directors take to the desert to make a film about themselves, then get lost in it....

Michael Dudok de Wit was asked by the famous Japanese animation studio Ghibli, to create his first feature length animated film. This would be Ghibli's first international co-production ever. Maarten Schmidt and Thomas Doebele followed Dudok de Wit ...

Largely due to censorship, many films, especially documentaries and independent films, can't be released in China. But underground cinema clubs are making independent films accessible to Chinese audience despite the all the risks....

Documentary about the making of Ordet, from the perspective of cinematographer Henning Bendtsen....

When the frontman of a metal band takes an unfamiliar drug sold to him in exchange for the lives of his bandmates, he must fight off a drug-induced psychosis as well as the horrific thought of this deranged deal....

A bunch of friends are making a movie in an attempt to win the shortest film competition. But when people have to go to work, things get challenging. Can they finish the movie in time for the deadline?...

A vampiric producer decides to end his life to live on film....

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

Bruce Lawton discusses Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith (1922), a film that Keaton had dismissed as a "lesser" work....

A director (P. Chann) tries to make a movie following the guise of Joseph Campbell's framework....

A coming-of-age documentary that follows a group of young filmmakers as they make their first feature film, Scuba....

A short film from the mind of MAKE. ART. NOW. This short was self-filmed during the Los Angeles COVID-19 shutdown. When Josh, a YouTuber, unexpectedly receives a package, it starts him on a journey of wit, brilliance, and over the top, determination....

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 Korea in order to revolutionize the country's dying film industry....

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

College film major JP Dalton goes back home to talk with his friends about the past, present, and future....