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Film on Film is all about making movies. Who makes them, how they make them, who's in them...and how did all this crazy light fantastic get started? This is a great section for anyone interested film, it's beginnings, it's personalities, it's ups and downs and it's future. Look behind the red velvet curtain and discover the machine behind the screen. Pictured: The tumultous life of film maker Ed Wood is explored in 'Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora'

A Constant Forge: The Life and Art of John Cassavetes (2000)

7.4/10
Director: Charles Kiselyak
Starring: John Cassavetes

Charles Kiselyak's detailed journey through the career of one of film's greatest pioneers and iconoclasts. Assembled from candid interviews with Cassa... Read more

A Decade Under the Influence (2003)

7.6/10
Director: Richard LaGravenese, Ted Demme

"The 70's Films That Changed Everything." A love letter to an amazing period in film, "A Decade Under the Influence" enlists a cast of pioneering dire... Read more

A Film Unfinished (2010)

7.3/10
Director: Yael Hersonski

In 1942, more than two years after Nazi troops herded Poland's Jews into a ghetto in Warsaw, where they were to be held until they were sent to exterm... Read more

A Flickering Truth (2015)

7.2/10
Director: Pietra Brettkelly

The fourth feature-length offering from New Zealand documentary filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly (Maori Boy Genius, NZIFF12) is her most ambitious project... Read more

A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007)

6.9/10
Director: Esther B Robinson

In 1966, editor/filmmaker Danny Williams disappeared, adding tragic mystery to the time he spent with pop art guru Andy Warhol as part of the much-stu... Read more

Actress (2014)

6.1/10
Director: Robert Greene
Starring: Brandy Burre

When Brandy decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she's carefully created crumbles around her. Actress is both a present tense p... Read more

Alias Nick and Nora (2005)

Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Narrated by, Kevin Kline, Kathleen Turner

Features two documentary tributes to the couple who portrayed the ultimate 1930s dandies in the Thin Man film series. 'William Powell: A True Gentlem... Read more

American Movie (1999)

7.9/10
Director: Chris Smith
Starring: Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank

A funny, acclaimed documentary focusing on Wisconsin filmmaker Mark Borchardt, a Hollywood wannabe who will do anything to finish his latest no-budget... Read more

An Evening with Kevin Smith / An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder (2002)

Director: JM Kenny
Starring: Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes

Kevin Smith started out making movies in any spare moment he could find, patching together his cult hit 'Clerks' while the store he worked at (and fil... Read more

Andy Kaufman - I'm From Hollywood (1989)

Director: Lynne Margulies
Starring: Andy Kaufman

Immortalised in the film 'Man on the Moon' (1999) starring Jim Carrey, Andy Kaufman was best known for his outrageous lampooning of wrestling culture... Read more