The women of Afghanistan are being persecuted under Taliban rule, but they're not standing down. Filmmaker Tamana Ayazi chronicles the harrowing reality of one women's rights advocate -- Zarifa Ghafari, Afghanistan's youngest female...

Moonlight is a hard-edged yet beautifully made story about a black American dealing with his sexuality in a sometimes unforgiving and violent world. Its director, Barry Jenkins, uses every trick in the filmmaking book to put us in the...

Who takes the pictures in a movie? Who is responsible for making a movie look good, or creating meaning with light and shadow, or make an action scene clear and thrilling? A lot of the time, that's the job of the cinematographer. In this...

In this talk and tech demo, filmmaker Diego Prilusky introduces the next chapter in moviemaking: volumetric video, a 360-degree experience powered by hundreds of cameras that capture light and motion from every angle. Check out how this...

So... what do Producers even do? It's a hard question to answer because there are so many different kinds of producers on a movie. In this episode of Crash Course Film Production, Lily Gladstone talks us through the different kinds of...

In this episode of Crash Course Film History, we talk about the development of the language of films by filmmakers like Edwin S. Porter and his films; Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery.

Should you go to film school? Great question? But there aren't necessarily a lot of direct answers. Do you want to go to Hollywood? Do you want to make movies in your spare time? Do you want to learn about world cinema? Do you want to be...

As filmmakers flocked to 2010's SXSW festival, Howcast was there in the thick of it all. Heather Menicucci, managing producer of the Emerging Filmmakers Program, chatted with attendees to learn about their creative processes, what they...

Trace the evolution of fake blood from simple tricks to complex recipes in filmmaking.

Discover the fascinating journey of how movies have been preserved over the past century and continue to captivate audiences worldwide.

Learn about filmmaker George Lucas, from his childhood in California and his love of cars to his success with the Star Wars franchise. Learn about his his imagination and determination led to be one of the most successful filmmakers of...

Trace the evolution of fake blood from simple tricks to complex recipes in filmmaking.

Delve into the captivating world of puppeteering in Star Wars with Dave Barclay, the mastermind behind some of the series' most iconic characters. Learn about his journey from controlling Yoda's eyes and ears to becoming the puppeteer...

Delve into the captivating world of puppeteering in Star Wars with Dave Barclay, the mastermind behind some of the series' most iconic characters. Learn about his journey from controlling Yoda's eyes and ears to becoming the puppeteer...

Have you ever watched a movie with the sound muted? It doesn’t really seem as impactful, even though the acting on screen is the same. It turns out that audio, and specifically music, plays a hugely important role in creating film as we...

The Matrix is real. <br/>
Filmed on the Phantom v2511 at 120,000fps at 512x320 pixels.

John Benton is a narrative designer whose work ranges from traditional film to emerging media. Most recently, he won the Tribeca Film Festival’s Mobile Storytelling Prize as well as London's PttPixel Market Prize for his interactive...

Gav and Dan cobble together an interesting (and wobbly) camera rig to film the most British thing they can think of... Inside a cup of tea.



Filmed at 1000fps with a Phant
om Flex 4K
Filming Inside a Slow Motion Vortex -...

Gav and Dan film their slowest video yet. It's so slow, it's almost like looking at an entirely different plane of existence. DO NOT TRY AT HOME.

Glass explosion at 343,000FPS! - The Slow Mo
Guys
Filmed between 28000 and...

In the first Ultra High Definition episode of The Slow Mo Guys, Gav and Dan inject coloured ink into a tank of water. If you have a 4K display or UHD tv, fire it up!



Hypnotic Ink Physics in 4K Slow Motion - The Sl
ow Mo...

In the slowest slow mo video yet, Gav shows us the classic colliding droplets shot in liquid. Using a mixture of coloured water and milk shot at 5000 frames per second (200 times slower than real-time.)

Let's learn about Georges Méliès who had alwaus shown interest in the arts and was a pioneer in the early days of cinema.

Gav and Dan like learning and like fast things. In this episode, they learn about a fast thing.

A fire sprinkler that you can probably see above your head if you are watching this from your office when you should be working....

It's the final day of Banger Week! Gav and Dan blow up paint tins in what easily is the messiest and bloodiest episode ever.





Don't tr

y this at home!

Day 5 - Giant Paint Exp
losion - The Slow Mo...