Editor’s Letter
Welcome to the winter 2025 edition of Filmmaker. This quarter, we’re honored to have on our cover, photographed by Misan Harriman, RaMell Ross—an extraordinary director, photographer and artist who first graced these pages when we highlighted him on our 25 New Faces list in summer 2015. At the time, he was at work on his debut documentary, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, which we were fortunate to screen early footage of. In my interview with RaMell, he said about his work: “I enter filmmaking as an artist who is wild about poetics and its emotional influence. The film […] uses […]