Grant Nellessen

The World According to Allee Willis (2024)

Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and colors, her signature asymmetrical haircut and famed parties at her real-life Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Allee did ...

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes (2024)

An intimate look at pioneering artist George Platt Lynes, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. The documentary reveals Lynes' gifted eye for the male form, his long-term friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alfred Kinsey, and his lastin ...

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (2021)

In the mid-1950s, Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, young composers and romantic partners, are hired by legendary silent film star Gloria Swanson to write a musical based on her film Sunset Boulevard, directed by Billy Wilder in 1950. ...

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)

A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars. ...

AWOL (2017)

A young woman in the Army must make tough decisions when her love for an older woman causes her to question just where she is going. Adapted from Deb Shoval's 2011 short film of the same name. ...

Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)

Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood's ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and dest ...

Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre (2004)

Feature length documentary about the making of the film featuring interviews with producer Michael Bay, director Marcus Nispel, executive producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, screenwriter Scott Kosar, and the cast and crew. ...

Return to Crystal Lake: Making 'Friday the 13th' (2003)

Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog' (2002)

Retrospective documentary on the making of the 1980 horror film "The Fog" featuring interviews with director John Carpenter, producer Debra Hill, stars Janet Leigh and Adrienne Barbeau, director of photography Dean Cundey, and editor/production designer To ...

The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees (2002)

A documentary charting the rise and fall (and inevitable undead rise) of fictional killer Jason Vorhees from the Friday the 13th series, which takes in the "video nasty" phenomenon in general. ...

Larger Than Life: The Making of "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story" (2011)

Featurette about the production of Jeffrey Schwarz's 2007 AFIFest Audience Award winning documentary. ...