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...

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...

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...

For June 2022, we checked in with the LGBTQ+ members of our Camera Ambassador community for an interview series we're calling...   Queeries     Eli Sulkowski (He/They) (@eli_sulkowski)Actor & Screenwriter"The drive that other people have...

Brian Lawes isn’t afraid of silence. In his latest award-winning short film Lost Kings, Lawes uses sparse dialogue and tense pauses to hang the audience in suspense. Through studying other films and building upon his own...

In late 2020, Mary Tilden and Leah Raidt wrapped principal photography on their short film Rough River Lake. Mary and Leah have the ease of a seasoned creative team, knowing when to give and take...

In the midst of lockdown, these two resilient artists persisted and are thriving.Bridget Johnson (BJ) is very interested in the spiritual sides of things, having just made moon water the night before the interview. She...

We're excited to welcome the newest addition to our team: Rey Tang!Rey will be serving as our new Marketing/Client Relations Associate and will be taking over the blog for July. To kick things off, we sat down...

We're ecstatic that after months of consideration, a live pitch event, and hundreds of community votes, Link Wolfe & his team's "Zero Mile Mark" is our 2021 winner!     "Zero Mile Mark" is horror...