Filmmaking Movies

Short film by Sandi Mitchell showing footage of the ruins of the NFB's Halifax office after it was destroyed in a fire in 1991.

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

Two public broadcast employees, tired of their dead-end jobs, set out to make a documentary proving aliens exist in a small Minnesotan farming...

Discover the unrealised visions and passion projects of revered British filmmaker Michael Powell, in this fascinating documentary featuring...

Aspiring directors Lev Zaretski (a sadist) and Ruslan Romanov (an anime MC) will show you how to properly write a screenplay; cast actors; do a film...

What do the Japanese see in Canada? What's the magnetic pull from the Far East? And what's our take on this land of ours? Bolstering our feeling of...

Marina is a young actress in the middle of a preparation process for a character called Luísa, a timid boom operator, who finds herself...

On her first student film shoot, Camila, the director, discovers that her boyfriend, Miguel, an actor, is cheating on her with his co-star. Upon...

Profile of the late iconoclastic director Curtis Harrington, featuring images from many of his poetic and haunting films.

Disney animator Dan Lund documents the studio's decision to shut down its hand-drawn animation department and focus instead on computer-generated...

The 60s was the birth and ascension of the French New Wave. Characterised as an avant-garde film movement and created by directors like Godard and...

Two estranged friends, Chloe and Brooklyn, break down after fleeing the home of Micheal Davis, renowned Children’s Author, where he’s...

DIYSEX is a film that reflects on the use of the image and the language of mainstream pornography, and wonders how far this use can transcend when...

An argumentative film crew attempts to recreate an on set accident.

The Making of It's Always Fair Weather with footage and discussion by historians and participants.

Kirill, a 19 year old boy whose father works as a construction director, wants to study filmmaking.

Striking follows the main protagonist (Karter) as he turns a normal day into a wild adventure after escapes the clutches of some baristas, then as he...

The special effects in The Play House (1921) are discussed.