In this episode of the No Film School Podcast, Jo Light interviews documentary and commercial director Brendan Young live from Aspen Shortsfest about his short documentary The Meloneers, which follows the Rocky Ford High School wrestling program in rural Colorado. […]
The 35th Aspen Shortsfest has announced its winning films. The festival, held April 7-11, was touted as one of the few Academy Award-qualifying events. This year’s edition featured 61 short films from more than 25 countries, including eight world premieres, according to organizers. […]
Andrey Zvyagintsev almost died from complications of COVID. But he recovered, slowly, and tells IndieWire how he rediscovered the joy of filmmaking outside his native Russia with Competition Contender "Minotaur."
"Coward' is yet another story of queer repression and suffering from the director of "Girl" and "Close," and it's often breathtaking, whether in battle or the bedroom, even if too decorous to really steal your heart away.
The general consensus along the Croisette at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was that it felt like a quieter fest than usual: fewer big-name American titles, as festival director Thierry Frémaux himself admitted in his opening-day press conference, and slightly lower-key star wattage. From a critic’s perspective, however, that doesn’t necessarily make for a bad […]
The Italian Global Series Festival (IGS) came to Cannes to celebrate the ambitious event that aims to bolster Italy’s status as an international TV player and announce highlights of its second edition to be held July 3-11 in the seaside cities of Rimini and Riccione. During a Variety Global Conversations panel, IGS artistic director Marco Spagnoli […]
Italian filmmaker Dario Argento presented his new thriller trilogy at the Marché du Film’s Fantastic Pavilion in Cannes, where he was also honored with the genre hub’s Keys to the Pavilion award. The famed maestro of giallo cinema, who is attending the festival for the Cannes Classics screening of Giuseppe Patroni Griffi’s 1968 drama “Love […]
Saudi-owned production powerhouse MBC Studios – which is the studio arm of MBC Group, the largest and leading media company in the Middle East – has announced its new lineup of Saudi film and TV projects toplined by high-end horror film (“Travellers’ Hell”) which is slated for theatrical release in the MENA region this year. The […]
Pedigreed Argentine helmer Milagros Mumenthaler, a Golden Leopardo winner in Locarno for her debut “Back to Stay,” and Rodrigo Teixeira of RT Pictures, producer of James Gray’s “Palme d’Or entry “Paper Tigers,” will take centre stage at the third ECAM Forum co-production market, due to run June 9-11 at Madrid Matadero. The complete retrospective dedicated […]
It is a warm May evening on the Croisette and Huma Qureshi is, by her own cheerful reckoning, in the middle of everything. She is at Cannes for the fourth time. She has been to Berlin twice, Toronto once, Busan. Venice and Sundance remain on the list. This year she is here for the Red […]