After 40 years, Tom Cruise continues to push the envelope in film. Exposing one's heart to the world through their work is not only risky business, as far as Cruise is concerned, it is the only way to achieve an end that feels complete.
A short film with dialogue for Eason Chan's Cantonese single "The Code" 盲婚哑嫁 (also included in most recent album "Chin Up") which was produced as an extended backstory for the music video. Starring Eason Chan himself as a passionate portrait photographer whose wife (played by Cecilia Choi)...
If there is one person Matthew Lancit can’t get out of his mind, it is his uncle Harvey. Dark rings around his eyes, pale, blind, his legs amputated. Like Harvey, the filmmaker also suffers from diabetes. He has the disease under control, but one question is always nagging at him: How much...
Some people collect family albums. Sarmīte Sīle, an accomplished arts scholar, takes a nude photo of herself every ten years. Behind this unique series of nude photos that span a lifetime, is her story.
15 seconds a day for 365 days. This is the basic premise of the "Year Feature" challenge taken on by filmmaker Scotty Leonard. But within this challenge, Scotty creates a visceral self-portrait, exploring what it takes to be an underground filmmaker, cat-owner, boyfriend, and low-level assistant...
Oswaldo Guayasamín, one of the most renowned Latin American artists, with more than 600 portraits in his pictorial career, (among which are F. Mitterrand, Carolina de Mónaco, Juan Carlos I, Rigoberta Menchu) paints his self-portrait, while he tells us the foundations of his art.
An autobiographical essay film structured as a letter to the director’s young daughter, "Où en êtes-vous, Bertrand Bonello?" weaves clips from Bonello’s films, excerpts from his scripts, pop songs, and snippets of original footage into a lyrical, reflexive cinematic self-portrait. "Où en...
"Mestre-espenya" is a self-portrait of Guillermo Amengual where he talks and thinks about his childhood and all the themes that have always been present in his life and films: death, family and innocence.
A self-portrait seen through the lens of overwhelming shame that hits you hard... with boxing gloves. Learn how to embrace the constant struggle and turn it into a dance.