How do you make sense of your life when other people are listening? One of the fun/exciting/deeply challenging parts of being a...

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Oscars I would be lying if I said that I never thought about winning an Academy Award....

Film school and California culture were a shock to my system. My first semester in the SF State Cinema Department was thrilling. Moving...

Memories of teenage movie making and its consequences. The sickening crunch of glass and plastic replays in my head as I step onto the...

How astronauts real and fictitious launched my life and career. The year 1968 has a lot of… history. It was a pivotal, dramatic year in...

Religious experiences come in many places. Going to the movies was my church. The year that I arrived in San Francisco, one of its most...

It's time for a career reboot. I moved to California to go to film school and never looked back. (I did make the curious choice of moving...

As a producer-director who struggles a bit with screenwriting, I envy those writing rooms on series television. The writing is often so...

After a relatively busy year in 2019, it was doubly frustrating (professionally speaking) to face 2020 in lockdown and video chats...

Michael McCartney is a lucky man and he knows it. An actor, director and instructor (at the New York Film Academy), Michael wrote and...