OSCAR EXPERTS EARLY PREDICITONS: AWARDS WATCH
MTFB continues to look at the opening set of Oscar predictions from various Oscarologists. Today's look is from Erik Anderson's Awards Watch. Here's what he has to say about TFF #53 films and Oscar nominations:
La Bola Negra (15): Best Picture, International Feature, Direction, Supporting Actor...
OSCAR EXPERTS EARLY PREDICTIONS: AWARDS RADAR
MTFB continues to look at the opening set of Oscar predictions from various Oscarologists. Today's look is from Joey Magidson's Awards Radar.
La Bola Negra (10): Best Picture, International Feature, Direction, Adapted Screenplay, Casting, Cinematography, Costumes, Editing, Sound and Song.
Wild Horse Nine (9): Best Picture,...
When we first saw He Never Left at the Utah International Film Festival, we saw the finished movie.
We saw Colin Cunningham as Gabriel, a fugitive hiding out in an old motel with his girlfriend Carly, played by Jessica Staples. We saw the mysterious Pale Face. We saw the performances, cinematography, editing, sound and everything else that had...
Partnership is the guiding motif of the World Soundtrack Awards’ Film Music Days, where live performances will give cult films bold new scores and industry mixers encourage emerging composers and filmmakers to find their creative match. To show what such pairings can achieve, two WSA talks will spotlight some of contemporary European cinema’s most enduring […]
The World Soundtrack Awards’ Discovery of the Year prize has a knack for spotting emerging talent. Gustavo Santaolalla (“21 Grams”), Michael Giacchino (“The Incredibles”) and Nicholas Britell (“Moonlight”) all won it before reshaping the modern film score, and recent winners Daniel Blumberg (“The Brutalist”) and Jerskin Fendrix (“Poor Things”) look set to follow. Meet this […]
TURNING THE PAGE
We've made the run of post-festival ratings with the reportage of results from my annual poll of the People, the Professionals and then the Composite of both together. It looks like several films that screened at TFF #53 have the potential for Oscar success. So, as has become the custom here at MTFB, we turn the page to what happens now in awards season to...
FilmFreeway has published an interview with IndieX Film Fest director and head of programming Victor Eustáquio about how the festival discovers and evaluates short films, and his advice for filmmakers preparing submissions. Eustáquio explains how IndieX’s monthly competitions connect to the separately curated Annual Awards and Live Showcase in Los Angeles. He also discusses what […]
LOS ANGELES, CA — Artichoke, directed by Amir Moini (USA), has been named Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award) at the August 2026 edition of IndieX Film Fest. The 14-minute horror fantasy earns the festival’s highest distinction for the season and advances to consideration for the IndieX Annual Awards 2027. An Escape Through Another Reality Held captive, […]
THE PROFESSIONALS TELLURIDE
They're back. It's time to reveal the results of MTFB's annual poll of film industry professionals who agreed to rate the films on a 1-5 scale and allow me then to collate and average those scores. The Pros are a mix of critics, awards experts and other industry insiders. To make the list this year a film had to be rated by at least...
Nepal’s Academy Awards entry “Elephants in the Fog” is the sole Nepali film at the Toronto Film Festival, where director Abinash Bikram Shah has turned the film’s international visibility toward the floods devastating communities back home – among them people directly connected to the production. Lead actress Puspa Thing Lama is from Nuwakot district, one […]