Interviews

Writer-Director Mitchell P. Ganem shares his thoughts on his film "Killing Dinner," which tells the story of a special ops agent turned chef, and what happens when old lovers and comrades in arms come calling with guns blazing. Readers can watch the film online this month as part of the Online New England Film Festival.

Filmmakers Michael West and Brett Leigh poke fun at the hands that feed them in Festival.

Pitchfests are becoming popular venues for screenwriters to sell their work to development executives - what should you know before going?

In part one of a series, NewEnglandFilm.com writer Maddy Kadish investigates the allure of attending film school in New England.

Filmmaker Alice Dungan Bouvrie documents the life of Sara Herwig, a transgendered woman with aspirations to become a Presbyterian minister.

Directors Marie Brown and Yari Wolinsky share their thoughts on the making of their "Unmoored," which tells the story of a couple with one afternoon left to get things right and screens online this month at the 2010 Online New England Film Festival.

It’s not easy to shoot a documentary in a developing country when you don’t know what you’re doing. Even if you’re a quadriplegic. Filmmaker Jonathan Sigworth talks about directing (and being a subject in) his first documentary More Than Walking which screens at the Woods Hole Film Festival this month.

Scorpio Film Releasing is preparing to premiere their seventh film, Atomic Brain Invasion, next month. The company, based in Rhode Island, appears to have found a successful formula for not only creating critically received films, but also obtaining distribution for them.

Filmmaker Martha Grant puts it all on the line at the Rhode Island International Film Festival with her film Win Big, Have It All.

Andrew Wesman’s Harvard University senior thesis film Shelley comes back from the Cannes International Film Festival as it celebrates the importance of small film on the big screen.

The principal players not meeting until the day before production, The Why epitomizes the new type of collaboration in independent filmmaking.

The Rhode Island House Finance Committee voted to restore arts funding in its budget package.

Is now the right time to make a documentary in New England? You bet it is.

Filmmaking cousins Dan Boylan and Guy Taylor wrap up their first feature-length endeavor.

The Farmington Valley Film Commission wants filmmakers to succeed in northwestern Connecticut.

Producer Erika Hampson talks about her Rhode Island roots and her recent producing work on several narrative and documentary films including the Academy Award-nominated short "The New Tenants."

Rhode Island filmmaker Sean Nightingale teams up with his six-year-old son Gus on an exploration of nature in the series Gus Outdoors. The first installment Gull Island, which screens this month as part of the first-ever Providence Children’s Film Festival, takes viewers to a seagull nesting location in Rhode Island to learn about how the birds hatch and survive.

Writer/director Andy Mitton discusses YELLOWBRICKROAD, a feature horror film en route to Slamdance.

Think the studio scene is DOA in New England? Don't pack your bags for Hollywood just yet. Here's a status report on each of the studios planned for the region.

Filmmaker Liz Canner takes on the "strange science of female pleasure" and how the pharmaceutical companies hope to capitalize on it in her documentary, Orgasm, Inc.

In a downward economy, grant funding for Massachusetts filmmakers still exist. Dan Blask of the Massachusetts Cultural Council offers some advice.

Filmmakers Bobby Scali and Ted Sherman unveil their short film featuring the talents of 40 local SAG actors.

Larry Nott - a man whose life goal is to be the best production assistant he can be.

The Vermont Film and Media Coalition's Dan Mazur fights to lure filmmakers to the Green Mountain State.

From Vietnam to the United States, and from stunt coordinator to writer/director, Leo Kei Angelos charts how he has made it so far so fast.

In a two-part article, NewEnglandFilm.com learns more about two film programs that place global ecology under a Maine microscope. Both screen in early October at the Camden International Film Festival.

Six months into his new position as the first and only curator of film at the MFA, Boston, Carter Long discusses his strategies for the museum’s evolving film program.

Mary Godfrey discusses her documentary, "Dumping Billy: The Story of the Crow Land Landfill," which screens this month at the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival.

Documentarian Aviva Kempner shines a light on the most famous woman in America you’ve never heard of in her film "Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg."