• Helicopter Parent: Cristian Mungiu on Graduation By Vadim Rizov
• Safeguarding the Vision By Keith Putnam
• Incoherent Cinema By Nicholas Rombes
• DIT Gear By Keith Putnam
• Posthumous Experimentation By Holly Willis
• From the Kitchen to the Shower By Filmmaker Staff
• Critical Review: Iyabo Boyd on Feedback Loop, a New Advisory Service for Filmmakers By Scott Macaulay
• Four on the Floor: The Quad Cinema Returns By Vadim Rizov

• The F Word: Five Reasons Film Is Still Relevant in a Digital World

  I’ll be honest. I’d all but written film off, except for the few rolls that live in my Pen-F and my Mamiya RB67. In the days of the original RED, the Viper and VariCam, sure, video was a compromise. Those Kodak ads made sense. But now shooting a movie or a commercial on an ALEXA Mini shooting in ARRIRAW — I don’t feel that way anymore. The images are great. Better than great — they’re hard to break, and they grade well. And as film has faded from the independent-moviemaking scene, I can’t emphatically say I feel like I’ve lost something […]

  By Sean Porter
• Projecting Outside the Echo Chamber

  In the past decade, I have screened thousands of documentary festival submissions. That amounts to countless hours of observing — or, more often than not, being told about — the horrifying effects of war, discrimination, depression, censorship, animal slaughter, plastic bottles, shoddy reporting, asbestos and mountaintop removal. Befitting this past decade of “hope,” I have also been given the tools to fix those problems: a program I can donate to, a message to spread to my community, a website I can visit to learn more. Nearly every one of these films has failed to leave an impression. They don’t make […]

  By Chris Boeckmann
• From BTL to ATL: How I Went from Art Department Coordinator to Director

  The production designer Kelly McGehee called me one afternoon. I had been a production PA on a film we had both worked on. She told me she was starting a new movie and asked if I knew any art department coordinators. I didn’t — in fact, I didn’t even know what one was. But like any ambitious young person I did what you do in that situation: I said, “I can do it.” Not knowing what Google was yet, I hung up and did what you used to do when facing questions such as this one: call an actual human […]

  By Melissa B. Miller-Costanzo

Also: Fest Circuit: Sundance, Berlin, Borscht and True/False Parting Shot: Tracy Letts Editor’s Letter Super 8: Secret Signals in Dangerous Times