As a year in publishing at the ShortEnd Magazine approaches, SM Editor Noralil Ryan Fores recaps the experience. "The idea to start an online film magazine first hit me on the afternoon Lily Percy and I sat in Bryant Park. She was speaking about her visit to Walden Pond, how much it meant to her to spend time there, how we should go see it together at some point. Not two months earlier, I'd met Lily in the MovieMaker Magazine offices. She was associate editing there at the time I was interning, and in large part, I lobbied for that position because an enterprise story she'd written on the Latin American film movement had caught my attention and mesmerized me with its fearless and in-depth reporting."

With the recent DVD release of This Is a Business, director Tom Stern speaks about his process and purpose in filmmaking.

With the release of his stunningly crafted and ambitious fantasy short Forged to IndieFlix, David No reflects on genre filmmaking, the Australian film industry and his hopes for American outlets.

Something that I tell young filmmakers that I meet is if you want your story to be successful, you have to write honestly. Whether you're writing reality-based stories, or science-fiction, you have to write from that place, or the audience will know it for a fake immediately. It won't ring true even in the most outrageous fantasy film.