Director's Journal

Thinking about moving across the country to chase your dream? Here’s the part nobody mentions: when you get past the rush of excitement, the blind hope, the “where exactly am I going to live?” of it all…it can be a bit f*ckin’ scary.

How Breaking the Rules Helped Me Break the Ice with Martin Scorsese

Dead bodies, Paris Hilton, and a thousand No’s — this is how KILLER MOVIE happened. by Jeff Fisher They don’t cover this in film school: sometimes your first feature gets born in a frozen cabin in the woods, fueled by fear, a very good dog, and strangers who really want to tell you how their relatives died unbelievably brutal deaths. For me, it was February in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. 17 degrees below zero. No cell service. No internet. Just me, my dog, howling wind, a ren

THERE IS NO SHORT FILM JAIL. BUT THERE IS A DRY CLEANER IN WEST HOLLYWOOD WHO ALMOST ENDED MY EARLY CAREER. by Jeff Fisher There are moments in life when you look around at the favors you’ve called in, the credit cards you’ve maxed out, the Steadicam operator who showed up on a handshake — and think: How exactly are we going to pull this thing off? This is the story of one of those moments. ANSWERING OTHER PEOPLE’S PHONES I had already made one short film — a 30-minute romant