Welcome to In Development! Each week I explore how creative work really functions now, across independent film, creators, and the people building new models in real time. If it helped you make sense ...

In January, a group of filmmakers gathered in the North Atlantic to learn from a master. Werner Herzog, the German filmmaker, guided the students to create short films over 11 days. They would take ...

I made my first short film during a summer break from college at Oberlin, right after I turned twenty. I called it a satire, although I’m not sure I even knew what that meant. It was about a ...

Working with the team that built Letterboxd, Community Center is an early attempt to integrate audience-building into filmmaking, without turning artists into full-time strategists. Over the holidays ...