A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.

Alongside a passionate cast and crew, follow Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri a...
A short documentary on creating Hank the octopus and the difficulties in bringing him to the screen.
When Arthur Freed brought Alan Jay Lerner to Hollywood to compose a new Fred Astaire musical (based ...

The making of Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's classic work.

Creator of absolute freedom, David Lynch constructed his work as an enigma to be deciphered between ...

How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prep...
Retrospective documentary on the making of the early 80's horror cult classic "Motel Hell."

An in-depth look at the creative process behind "Society of the Snow," featuring cast, crew, directo...

Making of documentary from the Ultra HD Blu-ray edition of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer releas...

Documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an a...

A documentary about the making of, and legacy of, the Forbidden Planet movie.

Amazing, but true: Fort Lee, New Jersey (just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan), w...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

For this informative new one-off, film writer Ian Nathan focuses on the first 60 years of British ...

A documentary on the life and career of filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr., with clips from his films and ...

Rare documents and details of the film's story. From its initial option to its critical reception an...

A look at legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki following his retirement in 2013.