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The youngest child of Merata Mita, the first Māori woman to write and direct a feature film, Heperi ‘Hepi’ Mita grew up with only a partial picture of who his mother was. A groundbreaking artist and activist who broke through barriers of race, class and gender in the 1970s, Mita sacrificed a great deal to give voice…

Committed to making movies about saving the planet until he dies, “or until people wake the f*ck up,” Fisher Stevens believes he’s seen positive change of late, in people’s attention to our changing climate. Out on the promotional circuit just a few years ago with Before the Flood, a nature conservancy doc he took on…

Known for directing films like Ender’s Game and Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood had the opportunity to meet with a real-life whistleblower while developing his latest, Official Secrets. In the Sundance-premiering pic, Keira Knightley stars as Katharine Gun, a British secret-service officer who in 2003 leaked a top-secret…

Growing up in Michigan with two older brothers, Big Time Adolescence director Jason Orley “was always surrounded by older guys, their friends that were always giving me bad advice.” As off-base as many of their suggestions were, these young men stuck with Orley, who used his experiences with them as the basis for his…

In Patrick Brice’s Corporate Animals, Demi Moore relished the opportunity to play “the Trump of the movie.” In the comedic horror pic written by Peep Show‘s Sam Bain, Moore’s terrible CEO leads her suffering assistants on a corporate team-building retreat. During a caving weekend in New Mexico spearheaded by Bear…

Known for radically stylistic, groundbreaking features like Mysterious Skin and Kaboom, Gregg Araki flirted with television for a number of years before going all-in, bringing Now Apocalypse to Starz. “A lot of my movies are very sex and relationship-based, particularly about young people, and that time of your life…

A student of storytelling through the ages, documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe has often turned his lens upon classic films and those who made them—and while there’s certainly a canon of self-reflexive filmmaking, Philippe’s approach is unique. As manifest in his latest doc, Memory: The Origins of Alien, the idea isn…

Oftentimes, it’s the Sundance Film Festival that kicks off Oscar’s Best Documentary Feature Race. This season, three out of five Oscar-nominated docs (RBG, Minding the Gap, and Hale County This Morning, This Evening) emerged from the Utah festival. So naturally, with this track record, Dr. Ruth had concrete ambitions…

Through six seasons of ABC’s The Goldbergs, Wendi McLendon-Covey has garnered acclaim for her turn as Beverly, one of the most memorable matriarchs on network television. Recently, the actress teamed up with Debra Eisenstadt on Imaginary Order, to present a rather different portrait of the suburban mom. Starring…

A two-time Oscar nominee, Marco Beltrami never shies from a challenge. Between an Oscar-nominated doc (Free Solo) and a box office smash, which became a bona fide cultural phenomenon (A Quiet Place), he scored two of the most exciting and audacious works of the past year. Late last month, the composer got on to the…

Known for his role as Will Byers in Stranger Things, Noah Schnapp plays a character who goes by many names, in the latest feature from Fernando Grostein Andrade. To the Israeli-Jewish side of his family, he’s Avram; to the Palestinian-Muslims, Ibrahim. His first-generation American agnostic parents call him…

When Rebecca Dinerstein set out on a solo journey to the Arctic, she intended only to write a book of poems. Living “completely alone, on an island in the Norwegian Sea,” she soon found that she needed to fill her time, so she turned to prose, writing the book that became The Sunlit Night. A Sundance drama from…