HOW TO START YOUR OWN FESTIVAL: A 12 STEP PROGRAM

Brian Flemming on the creation of Slumdance '97

GIVING NOTICE

The Spirit and "Someone to Watch" Awards

LOW AND OUTSIDE

Doug Tirola on the art of the pitch

EIGHT HOURS IS NOT A DAY

Michael Jones on negotiating with the East Coast Council; and Joshua Melville on "right to work" states

CLIP ART

David Geffner on the art of trailer production

FUCK DEATH

Peter Bowen on Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed

NIGHT EXTERIOR

Kent Jones on Oliver Assayas' Irma Vep

UNNATURAL CAUSES

Michael Cho on Arthur Dong's Licensed to Kill

LOVELINES

Ray Pride talks with Chasing Amy's Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier

STATION TO STATION

Paul Harrill and Chris Cagle talk with director Christopher Münch

SISTERHOOD

Michelle Forman on Mo Ogrodnik's Ripe

FASSBINDER AND HIS FRIENDS

Independent directors pay homage to Rainer Werner Fassbinder

LUST FOR LIFE

Holly Willis on Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions

FRATERNAL ORDER

Scott Macaulay chats with director Seth Zvi Rosenfeld about A Brother's Kiss