Filmmaker Magazine

Filmmaker is a magazine released every three months that focuses on topics connected to independent cinema. It was established in 1992 by Karol Martesko-Fenster, Scott Macaulay, and Holly Willis. Currently, the magazine is published by the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), an organization that supports the independent film industry.

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“One of the Most Delicate Challenges I’ve Faced as a Filmmaker”: Kevin Haefelin on His Student Short Film Showcase Winner

1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Natalia Keogan

Back to selection by Natalia Keogan in Directors, Interviews, Screenwriters on May 7, 2025 Focus Features, JetBlue, Kevin Haefelin, Student Short Film Showcase, The Fuse, The Gotham In The Fuse, an elderly sanitation worker named Cassius (non-professional actor Jorge Gabino) decides to quietly shuffle himself off of this mortal coil.
“Totally Smooth Productions Are a Myth”: James Ross on His Student Short Film Showcase Winner

1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Natalia Keogan

Back to selection by Natalia Keogan in Directors, Interviews on May 7, 2025 Don't Blink, Focus Features, James Ross, JetBlue, Student Short Film Showcase The creepy premise of Don’t Blink may be parsed by its title alone, but this still doesn’t make one prepared for the unyielding scares conjured by writer-director James Ross. Completed with the aid of his MFA cohort at Florida State University, Ross’ film takes place during the witching hour in an otherwise quaint suburban enclave.
“The Story Kept Growing Alongside My Real-life Experience”: Sisa Quispe on Her Student Short Film Showcase Winner

1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Natalia Keogan

Back to selection by Natalia Keogan in Directors, Interviews on May 7, 2025 Focus Features, JetBlue, Sisa Quispe, Student Short Film Showcase, The Gotham, Urpi: Her Last Wish A Peruvian pilgrimage to visit the village of a recently-deceased relative propels the plot of Urpi: Her Last Wish.
Read Interviews With the Fifth Annual Student Short Film Showcase Winners, Awarded By The Gotham, JetBlue and Focus Features

1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Natalia Keogan

Back to selection James Ross, Sisa Quispe, Xinying Lao, Kevin Haefelin and Mel Sangyi Zhao. by Natalia Keogan in Directors, Interviews on May 7, 2025 Focus Features, James Ross, JetBlue, Kevin Haefelin, Mel Sangyi Zhao, Sisa Quispe, Student Short Film Showcase, The Gotham, Xinying Lao A creepy humanoid inches closer with every blink. A young woman returns to Peru to fulfill her grandmother’s dying wish.
“Children and Animals Have a Natural Intuition and Liveliness”: Xinying Lao on Her Student Short Film Showcase Winner

1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Natalia Keogan

Back to selection by Natalia Keogan in Directors, Interviews on May 7, 2025 Focus Features, JetBlue, Student Short Film Showcase, The Gotham, Xiaohui and His Cows, Xinying Lao Unlike the rest of her cohort, Xinying Lao has the distinction of being a Short Film Student Showcase winner as an underclassman.
“We Have More in Common Than We Think”: Mel Sangyi Zhao on Her Student Short Film Showcase Winner

1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Natalia Keogan

Back to selection by Natalia Keogan in Filmmaking on May 7, 2025 Focus Features, JetBlue, Mel Sangyi Zhao, Return to Youth, Student Short Film Showcase, The Gotham For her California Institute of the Arts MFA thesis film, Mel Sangyi Zhao decided to travel back to her Chinese hometown of Chengdu and cast her mother in the lead role.
“One of our Biggest Challenges Was Painting the Pool”: Isaac Gale on

1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot

Back to selection Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on May 2, 2025 Documentary, Isaac Gale, Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson’s Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted is a gonzo doc that perfectly reflects its trio of carpe diem stars — fun-loving musicians who reside in a bachelor pad in the hedonistic San Fernando Valley (aka the capital of porn).
“The Film Asserts a Clear Political Analysis of Zionism, and Simultaneously Does So While Asserting That No Human Beings are Villains”: Tatyana Tenenbaum on Everything You Have Is Yours - Filmmaker Magazine

1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot

Back to selection Everything You Have is Yours by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on May 2, 2025 DCTV, Documentary, Everything You Have Is Yours, Tatyana Tenenbaum’ Tatyana Tenenbaum’s Everything You Have Is Yours centers on NYC-based choreographer Hadar Ahuvia, specifically her coming to terms, through her chosen art form, with the colonialism and cultural appropriation that birthed the Israeli folk dances she was raised on in Hawaii (by way of Israel/Palestine) and which she still...
“Radiation Became a Presence—Almost Like a Mythical Force”: Zhanana Kurmasheva on We Live Here - Filmmaker Magazine

1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot

Back to selection by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on May 1, 2025 Documentary, Hot Docs 2025, We Live Here, Zhanana Kurmasheva “Some places on Earth carry a weight that is almost impossible to put into words” is how Zhanana Kurmasheva puts it in her director’s statement for We Live Here, which world-premiered at CPH:DOX and next screens in the World Showcase section at Hot Docs.
“False Histories. Corny Music Biopic”: Alex Ross Perry on

1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Vikram Murthi

Click here to read our spring 2025 issue, featuring Caught by the Tides' Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao, our annual spotlight on locations and more... Back to selection by Vikram Murthi in Directors, Interviews, Screenwriters on May 1, 2025 Alex Ross Perry, Pavement, Pavements “I always was hoping that it was music for the future.