Filmmaking Movies

A short documentary on the making of the 1946 film Ziegfeld Follies.

On the slope of Sengokuhara, a film crew is getting ready to shoot a major scene of a samurai movie.

Discussion of the making of the film Summer Stock (1950).

Life and work of the founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

Two screenwriters go through different stages of friendship and fame in this 15 minute short film.

The evolution of The Scarecrow (1920) is discussed in this documentary.

Dwij and his friends are tasked to make a short film under 40 hours.

A bunch of friends are making a movie in an attempt to win the shortest film competition. But when people have to go to work, things get challenging....

Ben Model discusses scoring music for silent movies.

A coming-of-age documentary that follows a group of young filmmakers as they make their first feature film, Scuba.

The making of the latest masterpiece - Crest of Senses - by renown cult film director Jack Gattanella. It's getting weird, and only weirder still, as...

A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.

A young screenwriter and a wanna-be director find a backer for their latest movie project... a mafioso who expects his no-talent son to get the...

Two friends work together to follow their passion of filmmaking, but as their journey progresses, their friendship falls apart into a sloppy mess.

A documentary film about cult director José María Zabalza. How he made pictures with very little money and was granted little...

An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his...

A portrait of an independent filmmaker and the lengths he will go to fulfill his celluloid dream.