Interviews

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.

Southie native Jay Giannone breaks out with his first film, the audience award-winning "Diamond in the Rough."

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."

Film professional David J. Garfield is at home on every side of the camera; last month he premiered The Suitcase in Boston.

In Scarred Justice, documentarians Judy Richardson and Bestor Cram expose and examine the 1968 Orangeburg massacre, one of the overlooked corners of the Civil Rights Movement.

Investigative reporter Beth Healy discusses how her background in print journalism helped prepare her to make her first documentary film, To Have and To Hold.

In his feature film debut, Alec Helm spins a local tale of nostalgia and growing up in Waterville, Maine. The Kings premieres this month at the Maine International Film Festival.

Filmmaker Rebecca Alvin explores the hidden lives and dreams of today’s nuns in Women of Faith, which screens this month at the MFA, Boston and the Woods Hole Film Festival.

Actor, journalist, and historian Phil Hall turns his attention to the surprisingly long and diverse history of independent film in his new book, The History of Independent Cinema.

Boston’s Tim Cawley explains some budgeting techniques that have fostered his independent film career; his second short film premieres this month at Boston Film Night.

Jason Caminiti’s documentary Pawtucket Rising tracks how a city in decline reversed its fortunes through the arts.

Taking Root, a VT-made documentary about Nobel Peace Prize winning activist Wangari Maathai, screens this month at the White River Independent Film Fest and airs on PBS’s Independent Lens.

After more than a decade in production, spousal duo Courtney Bent and George Kachadorian redefine beauty with their new documentary, which screens this month at the IFF Boston.

This month PBS launches an unprecedented multi-media event with We Shall Remain, a five-part series spearheaded by local producers and bolstered by New England talent and locations.

With three area festival directors as guides, Christine Morrison sheds light on how to be an effective film festival director.

Co-director Franco Sacchi discusses how waiting for a documentary’s focus to emerge can bring objectivity to a hot-button issue like Christian fundamentalism.

Actor Elika Portnoy leads Boston-made film to overseas success.

Documentary filmmaker David Bettencourt discusses his most recent film, On the Lake: Life and Love in a Distant Place, premiering this month in his home state of RI.