Invention (2024) Film Review from the 77th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a movie directed by Courtney Stephens, written by Callie Hernandez and Courtney Stephens and starring Callie Hernandez, Lucy ...

The two spoke with Dread Central about using the same house to film multiple projects (in addition to Invention and The True Beauty of Being Bitten By A Tick, Hernandez shot the short film Appliance ...

In March I had the fortune to see a rough cut of Invention, a new film by Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) that toes the documentary-fiction boundary more nimbly than most: it ...

You might think that when a book or short story is good enough to spawn a movie, the first rule of adapting it would be “stick to the source material.” In fact, some of the memorable scenes in adapted ...

Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a documentary is carefully crafted to yield a narrative and that ...

In the evolving landscape of documentary filmmaking, Levi C. Maaia and Noah Mark are making waves with a distinctive approach that blends compelling storytelling with informative and impactful content ...

I haven’t quite seen a film that blurs fact and fiction to such spellbinding and heartwarming effect as director Courtney Stephans’ Invention. Written by Stephans and Callie Hernandez (Jethica, OBEX), ...