Crowdfunding is the film industry’s version of standing on a digital street corner with a tip jar.
Sometimes it works. Most times it doesn’t. And either way it’s exhausting.
Meanwhile, there are filmmakers funding projects through methods that also build audiences.
Filmmakers default to crowdfunding because it’s often the only available option considered outside of...
Ethan Hawke weighed in on the current political debate at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, pointing out that “jet-lagged, drunk artists” may not be the best people to look to for guidance. During the press conference for his new historical drama “The Weight,” the Oscar-nominated actor was asked his position on the responsibility of big […]
Filmakers Oliver Laxe, Jose María Goenaga y Aitor Arregui, Carla Simón, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Ion de Sosa, Eva Libertad, Gerard Oms, Gemma Blasco, Jaume Claret Muxart, Avelina Prat, Guillermo Galoe, Alvaro Longoria y Manuel Gómez Pereira; los intérpretes Nora Navas, Susana Abaitua, Ángela...
MTFB OSCAR TAKE: FIRST PREDIX FOR THE SEVEN REMAINING FEATURE CATEGORIES
Over the couple of posts I have loading my picks to win the Oscar 14 Feature Categories. Today we get in the first predictions for the remaining seven features categories. TFF films are in Bold.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
1) Sinners
2) One Battle After Another
3) Train Dreams
4) Marty...
A decade after “Aloys” won the Fipresci Prize at the Berlin Festival’s Panorama, Swiss filmmaker Tobias Nölle returns to the section with “Tristan Forever,” a meditative, genre-elusive hybrid that tracks a French doctor’s 30-year obsession with Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most isolated inhabited island, and his bid to settle there permanently. Produced by Hugofilm […]
“Unfamiliar,” Netflix’s action-packed yet unconventional spy series that follows a married couple and former intelligence operators who are suddenly forced to deal with a deadly menace from their past, shot to the top spot globally among the streamer’s non-English shows in its first week of release. Launched on Feb. 5, the Gaumont Germany production centers […]
With thousands of festivals and awards programs out there, being selective is smart. The challenge is knowing what to look for before you spend a single dollar on submission fees.
Before looking at deadlines or laurels, ask a simple question:
Do films like mine actually play here?
Look at past lineups. Look at previous winners. Pay attention to tone, genre, and scale. A quiet,...
For its 13th edition, ParisDOC Works-in-Progress presents 6 feature-length documentary projects, French and international, at different stages of work, from editing to the end of post-production. Since 2014, Cinéma du réel has been inviting directors and producers to present their films in progress to festival programmers, VOD platforms and TV channels, sales agents and distributors. …
Berlin: Multiple generations grapple with the onset of adulthood, and the crush of middle age, against a bustling Singapore backdrop in the "Ilo Ilo" and "Wet Season" director's emotionally generous fifth feature.
Two days after Rupert Grint’s candid and possibly sarcastic declaration — “Obviously, I’m against [fascism]” — reverberated across Potsdamer Platz and became a meme, Berlin Film Festival chief Tricia Tuttle is still cracking up. Midway through her second edition at the helm of the Berlinale, the combative festival director wastes no time addressing the political […]