Movies: Filmmaking

An amateur filmmaker grapples with clashing personalities as he attempts to film a Christmas special...

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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 documentary about the making of the first Star Wars film (and to a lesser extent Empire and Jedi) including a look at some of the deleted scenes, behind the scenes footage, and notes on subtle things that you might have never seen or noticed before...

A stumped scriptwriter discovers a supernatural ability....

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

Documentary about the Buster Keaton short Hard Luck (1921)....

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

François Truffaut (1932-1984), once the most influential critic of the French New Wave, became a brilliant, prolific, and uncompromising director, creating 25 films in 25 years. Internationally honored and beloved for his poignant, often irresistibly...

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

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....

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

In this documentary about low-budget filmmaking in upstate New York, you'll learn how affordable digital-video technology has changed the lives of the artists behind action flicks, monster movies, nonfiction stories, and comedies. "Every Pixel Tells ...

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....

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

Life and work of the founder of the Cinémathèque Française....

A short film about how filmmakers can extend the life of their motion pictures, made and distributed by the Society of Amateur Cinematographers (SAC)....

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 Wolfgang-Pierre Dubois VII, he must navigate the chaotic world of high-brow cinema while trying to simpl...

Three film students attempt to make a horror movie 'blockbuster', but their Hollywood plans get derailed when their very own horror movie slasher escapes the chains of film and script and springs into reality to cause chaos and mayhem upon their neig...