Behind the Lens

JOYLAND follows the youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque, and becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show. Borrowing Tape interviewer Tyler Geis recently had the opportunity to talk to Saim Sadiq, the writer and director of JOYLAND on the filmmaking process. Now available to watch in theaters.

PAINT follows Carl Nargle, Vermont's #1 public television painter — played by Owen Wilson. Borrowing Tape interviewer Tyler Geis recently had the opportunity to talk to the director of PAINT Brit McAdams on the filmmaking process. Now available to watch in theaters.

In the 2022 comedy-drama film, WILDFLOWER a young girl navigates the challenges of having two neurodivergent parents and an extended family who can't quite seem to agree on how best to help her. Borrowing Tape interviewer Tyler Geis recently had the opportunity to interview the director of WILDFLOWER Matt Smukler on the filmmaking process. Now available to rent or buy on VOD.

The 2004 Frech horror film Calvaire returns to US theaters and will be released on VOD. Borrowing Tape interviewer Tyler Geis recently had the opportunity to interview Fabrice du Welz, the director and co-writer of Calvaire.

A drama film centered over a night of intimate and vulnerable conversations where a shocking truth is revealed.

Genre: Drama

Nace DeSanders caught up with Director/Co-Writer Mari Walker and interviewed her about her feature film, See You Then.

A documentary film that follows the life and work of Spain Rodriguez, a comic book artist.

Genre: Documentary

Nace DeSanders talks with Documentarian Susan Stern about making her feature film about the comic book artist Spain Spain Rodriguez titled 'Bad Attitude." 

Three interwoven stories reveal the traumatic effects of war on the psyches of veterans from different generations.

Genre: Drama 

A family harbors witches on the run from the state.

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

An immigrant story of a Korean-American family struggling to run a dry cleaning business in Flushing, Queens. Follow the Choi family as they confront their individual struggles, cultural clashes, and generational divide all while trying to keep their failing family business afloat.

Genre: Family, Drama

A hardworking and exhausted nurse named Ludi, battles coworkers, clients, and one impatient bus driver to learn her self-worth as she chases the American Dream in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood.

Stars: Shein Mompremier, Alan Myles Heyman, Madelin Marchant

Genre: Drama

After robbing a pharmacy, a woman and her mute friend kidnap a drug addict, then go on the road to give away the stolen "life saving" medication, but find themselves trapped in Slab City, California — a law-less and psychedelic city.

Stars: Sam Quartin, Dylan Sprouse,

Genre: Adventure, Romance, Western

Follows a group of friends in 1987, as the iconic British band The Smiths disband and fans in a small Colorado town process the loss.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Stephen Kijak
Interviewer: Nace DeSanders

The Affair is the 2019 historical drama based on the Simon Mower novel, The Glass Room.

Genre: Drama

Son is the 2021 horror-thriller movie that follows a mother fighting to protect her son from a cult conspiracy, physical illness, and evil itself.

Genre: Horror, Thriller

A recovering junkie soon learns that the rehab center is not about helping people, but a cover for a multi-billion-dollar fraud operation that enlists addicts to recruit other addicts. 

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller 

Starring: Michael Kenneth Williams, Melissa Leo, Jack Kilmer 

Sator follows a young man who realizes an insidious being has been watching and influencing his family in an attempt to claim them.

Genre: Horror 

White Lie is the story of a well-liked university student who lies about being diagnosed with cancer and struggles to keep it a secret.

A slow-burn drama/thriller that follows blind and deaf sisters, Anna and Beth, who live with their father in a secluded town realize their father may have ill intentions.

Dara of Jasenovac (2020) | Director Predrag Antonijevic

A holocaust film set in what was formerly Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia during WWII. The film is centered around 10-year old Dara, who is sent to the infamous extermination camp known as Jasenovac.

Serbia's official submission to the 2021 Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.

[Genre: Drama - War]

Interviewer: Nace DeSanders

If Not Now, When? (2019) | Interview with Co-Director / Writer Tamara Bass

Interviewer: Nace DeSanders 

If Not Now, When? is the 2019 drama film centered around four black women, who each face unique struggles surrounding their love, marriage, and home lives.

Stars: Meagan Good, Tamara Bass, Shamicka Benn, Mekia Cox

[Genre: Drama]

Archenemy (2020) | Writer/Director Adam Egypt Mortimer 

Interviewer: Nace DeSanders

Archenemy follows Max Fist, a mysterious man (played by Joe Manganiello) who claims he lost his superpowers after arriving from another dimension when he meets a local teen who starts to believe him.  

Stars: Joe Manganiello, Glen Howerton,  Zolee Griggs, Paul Scheer

[Genre: Action/Adventure/Mystery]  

Wander (2020) | Director April Mullen 

Interviewer: Nace DeSanders

Wander follows a paranoid private investigator with a troubled past. After Bretnik (Eckhart) is hired to investigate a suspicious death in the town of Wander, he becomes convinced the case is linked to the same ‘conspiracy cover-up’ that caused the death of his daughter.   

Stars:  Aaron Eckhart, Tommy Lee Jones, Katheryn Winnick, Heather Graham

[Genre: Thriller]