James Franco

Birth of a Poet is a dramatic short film that captures the moment Stephen Dobyns transitions from a disillusioned journalist to an emerging poet. ...

A love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.

A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.

A young boy searches a future world wasteland for a rumored cure for his dying mother.

A documentary about the making and shooting of James Franco’s ‘The Disaster Artist’ (2017)

Tom (Tennessee) Williams, an aspiring writer in his 20s, lives with and negligent father. Tom attempts to maintain peace in the family while also ...

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have ...

In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents’ untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the ...

In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise ‘in dubious battle’ against the landowners. The group takes on a life of ...

A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.

Follows the life of Stephen Dobyns as he deals with life, women, and his move from journalism to poetry.

A dispossessed, violent man’s life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes ...

On the first day of shooting, James Franco, David Shields, and Caleb Powell throw out the script when a real-life argument breaks out between the ...

The cinematic polymath artist / actor / director, James Franco, creates a lyrical short film as the very first Dazed Visionary.

James Franco’s Sal chronicles the final hours of the life of actor Sal Mineo, one-time teen idol and star of the blockbuster films Rebel ...

Strife and disaster befall a poor Mississippi family during a two-day trip by horse and wagon to bury their deceased matriarch.

Filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews re-imagine the lost 40 minutes from “Cruising” as a starting point to a broader ...

Made for the Venice Film Festival’s 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their ...

La Passione is a decadent and beautifully shot trip that riffs on Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, if it were shot on acid and ...

The story of writer Charles Bukowski’s formative years from childhood to high school and his struggles with an abusive father, disfiguring ...

Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

James Franco interviews three experts on the poet Hart Crane, whose life was the subject of his feature The Broken Tower (2011).

Unused footage from Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film My Own Private Idaho is re-contextualized in James Franco’s tribute to River Phoenix.

A mini-thriller comprised of TV footage of actor James Franco’s guest-starring appearances on the American daytime drama, “General ...

James Franco’s pre production test reel for Blood Meridian. Originally selected to direct a feature length adaptation, James Franco filmed ...

Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world’s most awarded vodka ...

Short film by James Franco. Part of the collective film One Dream Rush.

A no-budget production, focused on the perverse candour of young sexuality, where release and sterility become tied to larger cultural ...

Based on the eponymous poem by Spencer Reece, The Clerk’s Tale is a psychological portrait of a gay man trapped in the monotonous routine ...

With unprecedented access to the behind the scenes process of the writers, actors and producers, Franco and his crew document what it takes to ...