...Alice in Wondertown Interview with Filmmaker Daniel Diáz Torres Daniel Diáz Torres was a Cuban film director and screenwriter who directed sixteen films before his death in 2013. He was the director of a highly controver- sial film, Alicia en el pueblo de las Maravillas (Alice in Wondertown...

...Stories That Resonate New Cultures of Documentary Filmmaking in Cuba With Alexandra Halkin Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez completed a multicity tour of the United States in the spring of 2013, speaking at major universities and even visiting the White House. Sánchez became internationally...

... Murch calls attention to the essential place of improvisation and intuition in filmmaking practice, invoking examples from the Tamil filmmaking scenes in the book as well as his own experience as a filmmaker and editor. Calling on the work of Jean Cocteau, Francis Ford Coppola in the making and...

... state. This chapter looks at works by three filmmakers that have won prizes at European film festivals while sparking debates in national and regional contexts. It analyzes Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar’s Silent Waters (2003), which explores the revelation of a Pakistani mother’s traumatic past...

... This chapter looks at early motion picture entrepreneurs working in northern cities. Along with George W. Broome and Louis B. Anderson, filmmakers such as Hunter C. Haynes in New York and Peter P. Jones, Arthur Anderson, and William Foster in Chicago engaged in various moving picture ventures...

... The cinema of the French Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) brought, as one of its perceived radical innovations, an emphasis on improvisation at the levels both of acting and of filmmaking itself. Improvisation was one means by which this cinema differentiated itself from an earlier tradition of French...