Alysa Nahmias discusses her Sundance-premiering Cookie Queens and the impossible sweetness of Girl Scout cookie season
Cinema Verite
Michał Marczak discusses the custom rig, life changes, and moral complexity that shape his Sundance-premiering Closure
In this interview, Martina Radwan talks about how she let curiosity drive the filmmaking of One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
Brittany Shyne’s debut feature, Seeds, frames with dignity and grace the lives of Centennial Black farmers
Brent and Craig Renaud risked their lives to make vérité documentary journalism—after Brent’s death, Craig honored his life with a new film
In this interview, Gianfranco Rosi discusses Below the Clouds, his approach to nonfiction, and recent works’ political turn
Joel DeMott, renowned cinema vérité filmmaker, died on June 13, 2025. DeMott is best known for her films Seventeen (1983), which she co-directed with Jeff Kreines, and Demon Lover Diary (1980). Alongside Kreines, DeMott created a model of intimate cinema vérité filmmaking that has inspired countless filmmakers.
Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith, and Simon Mozgovyi’s riveting Militantropos , its title a mashup of “milit" (soldier in Latin) and “antropos” (human
For three decades, Chris Smith has profiled oddballs, eccentrics, and mavericks. Smith’s first documentary, American Movie— a darkly funny but
In The Dialogue Police , protests, Quran burnings, and political gatherings take center stage. This timely doc, helmed by veteran Susanna Edwards