Meet the Filmmaker: Interviews from 2007–2009

Join filmmaker Lynn Shelton and actors Mark Duplass ("The Puffy Chair") and Joshua Leonard ("The Blair Witch Project") as they discuss "Humpday." Writer/director Lynn Shelton, recipient of the "Someone to Watch Award" at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, expertly mines the biggest ironies of the male ego to hilarious effect. "Humpday" is a buddy movie gone wild and opens in select theaters July 10, 2009.

http://www.humpdayfilm.com/

Join Kathyrn Bigelow("Near Dark", "Point Break") as she discusses her new film "The Hurt Locker", winner of the Best Film Award at the Venice Film Festival 2008. The film is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military's unrecognized heroes: technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and  save lives doing one of the world's most dangerous jobs. "The Hurt Locker" opens in select theater Friday, June 26, 2009.

http://thehurtlocker-movie.com/

Join Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola ("The Godfather" Trilogy, "Apocalypse Now") as he discusses his new film. "Tetro" is Coppola’s first original screenplay since "The Conversation." It is his most personal film yet, arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional. It is the bittersweet story of two brothers, of family lost and found and the conflicts and secrets within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family. "Tetro" releases in theaters June 11, 2009.

http://www.tetro.com/

Join Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola ("The Godfather" Trilogy, "Apocalypse Now") as he discusses his new film. "Tetro" is Coppola’s first original screenplay since "The Conversation." It is his most personal film yet, arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional. It is the bittersweet story of two brothers, of family lost and found and the conflicts and secrets within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family. "Tetro" releases in theaters June 11, 2009.

http://www.tetro.com/

Join Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola ("The Godfather" Trilogy, "Apocalypse Now") as he discusses his new film. "Tetro" is Coppola’s first original screenplay since "The Conversation." It is his most personal film yet, arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional. It is the bittersweet story of two brothers, of family lost and found and the conflicts and secrets within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family. "Tetro" releases in theaters June 11, 2009.

http://www.tetro.com/

Join Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola ("The Godfather" Trilogy, "Apocalypse Now") as he discusses his new film. "Tetro" is Coppola’s first original screenplay since "The Conversation." It is his most personal film yet, arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional. It is the bittersweet story of two brothers, of family lost and found and the conflicts and secrets within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family. "Tetro" releases in theaters June 11, 2009.

http://www.tetro.com/

Join Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes ("American Beauty," "Revolutionary Road") as he discusses his new film, "Away We Go."  From an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple  - John Krasinski ("The Office") and Maya Rudolph ("Saturday Night Live") -  as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time. Focus Features released the film in theaters June 5, 2009.

http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/away_we_go/

Join writer/director Todd Phillips ("Road Trip," "Old School") as he discusses the making of his hilarious new comedy, "The Hangover." The film released in theaters June 5, 2009.

http://hangovermovie.warnerbros.com/

Join Whoopi Goldberg as she discusses her newest book in her children's book series "Sugar Plum Ballerinas #2 - Toeshoe Trouble". Book synopsis: Brenda Black prides herself on her logical and orderly mind. She studies anatomy books to get a twelve-year head start on medical school, and she idolizes Leonardo da Vinci. But things go haywire when her spoiled cousin Tiffany comes to visit. At first Brenda tries to ignore Tiffany's constant bragging. But when Tiffany implies that Brenda is not cultured enough to know who Miss Camilla Freeman is—Miss Camilla Freeman, the very famous prima ballerina—Brenda snaps. She tells Tiffany that not only does she know who Camilla Freeman is, but she happens to own an autographed pair of her toeshoes. So of course, Tiffany wants to see the shoes.

The only problem? The shoes actually belong to Ms. Debb, the headmistress of the Nutcracker School! Brenda's anatomy books might get her into medical school, but they can't get her out of this mess--for that, she'll need the help of her Sugar Plum Sisters!

Hear Nia Vardalos ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding") and director Donald Petrie ("How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days") discuss their new romantic comedy, "My Life in Ruins." In the film, Vardalos plays a discouraged tour guide who begins to see things in new ways, finding her kefi—Greek for mojo—in the process. The Fox Searchlight film opens in June.