Filmmaking Movies

The special effects in The Play House (1921) are discussed.

Two-part documentary about French director Jacques Tati chronicles the evolution of the filmmaker's alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, through archival...

In the summer of ’83 a camera crew visited Valkhn Films, an editing house where Style Wars was being painstakingly spliced together. This 25...

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

Short documentary exploring the fame and talent of Charlie Chaplin.

During the production of my Jabba documentary short, Slimy Piece of Worm Ridden Filth, I was put in contact with Toby Philpott’s colleague and...

Documentary about the making and reception of Carl Th. Dreyer's final movie, "Gertrud."

A dystopian future set in a totalitarian world , where a young man's life is about to change.

A documentary road movie. Traveling across his homeland, the filmmaker explores what Yakut cinema is, and what it means to the Sakha people and to...

Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The...

A young college student Olivia is forced to face a tragic event that has happened in her life. Her close friend Noah works to help her overcome these...

Short film by Sandi Mitchell showing footage of the ruins of the NFB's Halifax office after it was destroyed in a fire in 1991.

While making a documentary about a heavily polluted town, an ambitious filmmaker takes interest in a reserved teenager as a compelling subject.

Handbook of Movie Theaters’ History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in...

A chilling meeting between a deadly assassin and a former associate as The female assassins threatens the target in order to force him to give up...

A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of Contour, an independent martial arts comedy made for only $6,000.

Ben Model discusses scoring music for silent movies.

Two estranged friends, Chloe and Brooklyn, break down after fleeing the home of Micheal Davis, renowned Children’s Author, where he’s...

Akira Kurosawa: The Epic and the Intimate is a French documentary film that consists primarily of interviews with Kurosawa’s European...