Walt Stillman is back with his latest feature Damsels in Distress 13 years after his ‘Doomed-Bourgeois-in-love’ trilogy completed with Last Days of Disco. Microwave takes a look at Stillman’s low-budget roots and his journey to completing his latest comedy
At the unlikely age of 25, Manhattan-born film-maker Lena Dunham is one of the most hotly tipped young directors to have emerged from the independent film-making circuit in recent years. Microwave takes a look at what it is about her work that has allowed her to leapfrog the usual stepping stones for a first-time film-maker.
In this month’s Voices from Europe chapter, A Story in Europe, film-maker Ian Cottage looks at the pros of developing your project with a European writer and gives advice on how to access European co-production finance.
