They first met at lunch in high school. “We didn’t really talk until this one time we were in the Philippines at the same time for separate reasons,” JP Quindara says. “I was like ‘yo, let’s...

  All images are courtesy of the creative team behind Bone Black: Midwives vs the South.      Bone Black: Midwives vs the South is an experimental documentary that is a love letter to Black birth...

The Community Builders Grant launched in 2019, with the vision of “helping build bridges between filmmakers and the community while elevating their production by arming them with the necessary tools to create”.    Now in...

“Like every other kid that was born in the late eighties, early nineties, I was watching a ton of television music videos… MTV, BET…” Ashley rattles off. Ashley Battle is a director and director of...

George Ellzey Jr. was always a lover of stories. He was raised in Chicago by a single mother. They didn’t have a lot of money. Whenever his mother wanted to treat her children to a...

When Grecia Aguilar was little, her mom would work night shifts. So, during the day, her mom would sometimes take Grecia and her two siblings to the movies to catch up on sleep. “We made...

Craig Bass almost lost his lead. “I was driving by the arcade and I saw this huge array of skypanels out front with semi-trucks down the side streets, crew everywhere,” he recounts. “I was like,...

Outside In..... Award-winning filmmaker, photographer, author, and artist Keri Pickett often finds herself observing. In college, she became involved with a group that supported John Trudell, who at the time was on trial for his...

When she was a teenager, Judy Febles watched Girl Interrupted for the first time...   It was one of the first times that she’d witnessed a film with a large cast of women, as well...

  National Hispanic Heritage Month: Women Filmmakers to Follow Today's post is by guest writer Anna Cox from Pragda.   Living in a post-Roe v. Wade world has shifted our focus to bodies as we...

Being an award-winning director and cinematographer might be the sole bragging point for many. But, for Troy Gueno, he isn’t in love with how the titles sound.  “It’s a little too grand for me,” he admits.Yet,...

Sitting on a rustic porch, Clare Cooney describes her move west...   Chicago-bred talent, Cooney had always wondered what it’d be like tapping into the bigger market of Los Angeles. She’d planted strong roots in...