Chris O'Falt
VP, Features Strategy
Chris O'Falt hosts the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. Previously, he covered the indie and doc film beat for The Hollywood Reporter. When he’s not writing about the innovation of today’s leading filmmakers, Chris is helping train the next (and hopefully more diverse) generation of filmmakers through a non-profit he co-founded in NYCHA’s Gowanus Houses. Follow @cofalt.
Latest by Chris O'Falt
Filmmaker Toolkit
As the director tells IndieWire, there are aspects of the Broadway musical that made sense on stage, but were illogical on the big screen. Â
Commentary
This isn't a matter of taste, but a failure to understand why the NBA works so well as visual dramatic storytelling on our TVs.
Filmmaker Interview
What "Wicked" has to say about gaslighting leaders, fascism, scapegoating entire races of people, and American resilience is something Chu thought a great deal about, so he's not surprised its timelessness speaks to this moment.
Filmmaker Toolkit
Eisenberg reveals the lessons he brought to “A Real Pain,†his two favorite films he’s starred in, and how they point to where he’s going with his upcoming third film.
Filmmaker Interview
The director of "The Green Knight" and "A Ghost Story" was shocked that his love of all things tactile, handmade, hand-painted, and stop-motion was now digitally possible after the “Spider-Verse†films.
Filmmaker Toolkit
Imagining “Anora†without its hero location is impossible: an enormous glass mansion overlooking the Mill Basin in Brooklyn.
News
In response to a petition calling for better representation of women cinematographers, Marek Å»ydowicz’s column stirs controversy days before Opening Night.Â
Filmmaker Toolkit
Matt Reeves on how "The Penguin" finale digs the unfillable hole in the heart of his "Batman 2†kingpin.
Filmmaker Toolkit
Cuarón talks to IndieWire about the fuzzy articulation of traumatic memory, refusing to trick the audience, and Cate Blanchett’s prescribed rewrite of Episode 7.
Filmmaker Toolkit
Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham tell IndieWire they made their documentary so they could reach a U.S. audience, a surprisingly difficult task for the fall’s best-reviewed film. Â
Filmmaker Interview
Creator Lauren LeFranc on flipping genre conventions: “In crime dramas many men sleep with women and then discard them, and that to me felt relevant for Sofia, she's going to use Rush.â€
Filmmaker Interview
Cuarón talks to IndieWire about the aesthetics of authoritarianism and how social media and smartphones are leading us down a dark road.
