Vera Drew is the creator of The People's Joker, which evolved from an attempt to re-edit Todd Phillip's 2019 into... more

Some people think of virtual reality as an escape from actual reality. But helping you escape reality is the opposite... more

Coss Marte created a prison-based workout program in solitary confinement, then turned it into a thriving business called Conbody that... more

Documentary podcast Actual Facts is back on the MovieMaker feed to talk docs! Eric and Jason discuss "American Pain," a... more

Cory Choy's Esme, My Love is a mother-daughter thriller, set in the wilds of upstate New York and powered by... more

Brian Helgeland has won an Oscar for the screenplay of L.A. Confidential and was nominated again for Mystic River. He... more

Filmmaker Sharon "Rocky" Roggio is a lesbian filmmaker who hopes to someday change her Christian pastor father's mind about homosexuality.Like... more

John Carney and Gary Clark tell stories of scrappy amateurs trying to break into the music industry — because they've... more

Cinematographer Steven Holleran doesn't do anything the easy way. For A Boy. A Girl. A Dream: Love on Election Night,... more

Extraction 2 director Sam Hargrave thought long and hard about how to top the 12-minute nonstop action sequence in the... more

The new doc IT'S BASIC examines how the idea of Universal Basic Income – giving people money to do with... more

Sav Rodgers was a 12-year-old queer kid in Kansas when he first found his mom's VHS copy of Chasing Amy,... more

Nardeep Khurmi wrote, directed and stars in Land of Gold, a cross-country, cross-cultural road trip exploring the dynamic between a... more

Ali Afshar has one of the most unique origin stories in Hollywood. His family moved to Petaluma, California after the... more

Alex Convery grew up in the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s, when Michael Jordan was a superhero. He watched the... more

Two-time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple helped invent the modern-day documentary with her groundbreaking Harlan County, USA, which recounted a brutal... more

Born into the film industry, William Sherak has a long family history with innovators like James Cameron and George Lucas.... more

You know when you're watching a cop show, and a suspect says the cops planted a gun? Or drugs?It happened... more

In his directorial debut, Kyle Marvin guided not only four of the greatest actors of all time — Lily Tomlin,... more

MISSING producers Aneesh Chaganty, Sev Ohanian and Natalie Qasabian join us to talk about their addictive mystery thriller, which unfolds... more

Making one movie is a miracle, and Adam Leipzig has worked on 36. Some of them might be among your favorites,... more

Nick Richey, director of 1-800-HOT-NITE, is as cooly understated as he is full of surprises. The new film is about... more

Matt Stawski grew up a Detroit punk fan, shooting his friends' bands with equipment from a local TV and radio... more

Follow Her director Sylvia Caminer knows all the potential pitfalls of making a psychosexual thriller: cheesy sex scenes, falling into... more

In Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom, host and executive producer Rasool Berry travels to Galveston, Texas to learn about the real... more

Peter Phok is having an amazing year — he executive produced both X, released in March, and its prequel Pearl,... more

Kelci Parker, vice president of Animation at Hulu Originals, shared some perspective with students at the SCAD Animation Fest on... more

This is a preview episode of Actual Facts, MovieMaker’s new podcast about documentaries. Listen to more episodes at https://pod.link/1646377119Come on... more

This is a preview episode of Actual Facts, MovieMaker’s new podcast about documentaries. Listen to more episodes at https://pod.link/1646377119We speak... more

This is a preview episode of Actual Facts, MovieMaker’s new podcast about documentaries. Listen to more episodes at https://pod.link/1646377119Welcome to... more