Marya E. Gates is a freelance film and culture writer based in Los Angeles and Chicago. She studied Comparative Literature at U.C. Berkeley, and also has an overpriced and underused MFA in Film Production. Other bylines include Moviefone, The Playlist, Crooked Marquee, Nerdist, and Vulture.
Marya E. Gates
Latest from Marya E. Gates
Little Wing
Space: The Longest Goodbye
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Rose Glass on Love Lies Bleeding
Features
A (Not So) Brief History of Silent Film Influences on Pop Music
Code 8 Part II
Red Right Hand
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
The Monk and the Gun
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Erige Sehiri on Under the Fig Trees
Features
The Future of the Movies, Part 2
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2024: Black Box Diaries, Never Look Away, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2024: Sujo, In the Land of Brothers, Veni Vidi Vici
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2024: Sebastian, Girls Will Be Girls, Brief History of a Family
Interviews
How We Got Here: Ava DuVernay on Origin
Mean Girls
Inshallah a Boy
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Nancy Savoca on Household Saints
Anyone But You
Interviews