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“Fire is Like Sex — Neither Good Nor Bad But What You Bring To It”: Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens on Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency
In the first two films in their trilogy of environmental-themed documentaries, Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle married — literally — their loving spirit of “ecosexuality” with urgent debates around the preservation of our natural resources. In 2014’s Goodbye Gauley Mountain — An Ecosexual Love Story, Stephens returned to her West Virginia home with Sprinkle only to find the eponymous ridges she remembered from her youth undergoing the environmentally-destructive coal-mining process of mountaintop removal. In the film, as Wren Awry wrote for Filmmaker, Stephens says, “Sometimes I feel like fighting [mountaintop removal] is a losing battle. Then I imagine that some […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 23, 2025 -
“The Movie Stays the Same, Yet the Interpretation Is Often Very Different”: David Secter on the 60 Year Legacy of Winter Kept Us Warm
“Winter kept us warm,” reads an early line in T.S. Eliot’s landmark poem The Waste Land, “covering Earth in forgetful snow.” This season, often associated with loneliness and despair, heralds quite the opposite both in Eliot’s masterwork and in Canadian filmmaker David Secter’s. The latter’s 1965 feature debut, Winter Kept Us Warm, centers on the blossoming relationship between Doug (John Labow) and Peter (Henry Tarvainen), two University of Toronto college students. An upperclassman, the popular Doug spends more time socializing with his fraternity brothers than studying; conversely, freshman Peter feels awkward in his new surroundings, and as such greatly prefers […]
by Natalia Keogan on Jun 23, 2025 -
Full Sail University: A Campus for Future Filmmakers (Sponsored Post)
At Full Sail University, the filmmakers of tomorrow can pursue hands-on bachelor’s and master’s degrees that prepare them for the demands of the industry. With a real-world educational approach and a campus filled with tech-forward facilities, Full Sail is designed so students can take their first steps toward their industry dreams today. Full Sail’s Film Degree Programs Film bachelor’s degree: Students experience every step of the filmmaking process in this campus program. They write scripts, collaborate to build sets, learn about on-set crew positions, work together to shoot footage on dedicated film days, and tackle editing in post-production. Film Production […]
by Abby Stassen on Jun 23, 2025 -
Free Webinar: CRISIS/OPPORTUNITY: Four New Innovative Distributors Rethinking the Indie Model
8 Above’s June webinar, co-sponsored by Filmmaker Magazine, profiles four new adventurous and innovative distributors that have emerged on the US independent film scene. Join Scott Macaulay (Filmmaker) and Jon Reiss for a conversation with Elizabeth Woodward (Willa), Munir Atalla (Watermelon Pictures), Elizabeth Purchell (Muscle Distribution), and Theodore Schaefer & James Belfer (Cartuna x Dweck). 🎤 What The Webinar Will Cover How each company approaches curation, audience building, and community engagement What makes these new distribution models unique—and replicable How filmmakers can find the right fit for their work in a shifting ecosystem Whether you’re prepping for a release, scouting […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 21, 2025 -
Filmmaker ‘s New Issue and News from Our Editor-in-Chief
Every Friday I write a free newsletter that’s a riff on various topics — filmmaker sustainability, the health of our ecosystem, new players and ideas, the plight of the producer, the rise of AI and more are frequent subjects. This week, I used the newsletter to announce two upcoming events, our new issue, and my news that after the next issue in September I’ll be stepping down as Editor-in-Chief after 33 years. Read all of this below, and if you’d like to sign up to the newsletter, which I’ll be writing for almost three more months, you can do so […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 20, 2025 -
“Crying and Editing at the Same Time”: Karla Murthy on Her Sheffield World Premiere The Gas Station Attendant
For much of her life, Karla Murthy listened as her father regaled her with tales of his troubled upbringing and eventual journey to America. Raised in poverty in India, Shantha Murthy spent years of his childhood destitute and working for meager wages at a restaurant, his only respite arriving in the form of an American couple who eventually sponsored his visa to the U.S. The rest follows a fairly simple pattern: he met a girl in his new home state of Texas, got hitched and started a family of his own. This, he claimed, was his true life’s goal; but […]
by Natalia Keogan on Jun 19, 2025 -
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by Vadim Rizov on Jun 18, 2025 -
Media in the Middle: The Emerging Media Arts Program at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Asked about the fundamental goals of the program of which she is founding director, Megan Elliott is expansive and enthusiastic. “We have a very strong interest in the myriad places our students can go as storytellers, makers, artists, entrepreneurs and innovators, not just within the film industry, but far beyond it,” she explains. She acknowledges that these ambitious goals also pose challenges. “There is always a tension that exists within any design, architecture, arts or media program about how you teach both technical and creative skills that are rigorous and experimental, and how to hold space for all of that.” […]
by Holly Willis on Jun 18, 2025 -
Be True to Your School
When considering applying to a film school, either as a student or faculty member, it’s worth thinking about those film programs in much broader academic and political contexts. For example, will the school, and the broader institution that it’s a part of, stand up for academic and creative freedom in the face of withering actions from the Trump administration? In the spring of 2025, the Trump administration went on the offensive against academia, beginning by essentially demanding that universities drop all DEI programs. They used the cynical guise of defeating “anti semitism” as a cudgel to bludgeon schools into submission. […]
by Dan Mirvish on Jun 18, 2025 -
Duty of Care: Sarah Friedland on Familiar Touch
Sarah Friedland’s Familiar Touch follows Ruth, an octogenarian woman experiencing memory loss as she transitions into assisted living. Played with luminous restraint by Kathleen Chalfant, Ruth is not someone we observe from a distance—we move with her. Told entirely from her perspective, the film unfolds through a sensory experience of time and memory. Through light, texture, sound and gesture, we come to understand what it means to live inside a body—and a mind—that is transforming. Ruth is looked after by Vanessa (Carolyn Michelle Smith), a personal support worker, and Brian (Andy McQueen), the home’s doctor. Over time, she begins to […]
by Sofia Bohdanowicz on Jun 18, 2025
