The nonprofit Sundance Institute today announced in a press release details for the 2026 Sundance Film Festival’s annual ...
In 2021, the Tokyo International Film Festival decided to leap out of mediocrity. It was, acquaintances told me, previously ...
Writer-director Avalon Fast discusses her sophomore feature CAMP, which centers on a group of “gorgeous misfits” working at a Canadian summer camp.
Alex Winter and Tom Stern’s 1993 cult classic Freaked is less an example of “high” and “low” art commingling than of pop- and-sub-cultures colliding. At the precipice of marquee fame after headlining ...
One of our most prolific independent American filmmakers, Richard Linklater, now has two new movies in release. Nouvelle ...
If there is a giant who sits astride the history of Uzbek cinema, it’s Ali Khamraev, one of those rare talents like Welles or ...
Director Sky Hopinka on”Powwow People,” “a vérité-style doc grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived experience of a contemporary Native gathering.” ...
On the cusp of every autumn for the last 21 years, the Camden International Film Festival becomes the center of the nonfiction world, offering a kind of community campfire in the midst of the seasonal ...
Which is why the late October onslaught of regional film festivals can be pretty important.
“The film isn’t about you,” Joanna Arnow tells her parents at the beginning of 2013’s i hate myself :). “You’re secondary characters.” Her mother Barbara responds, “We know who the primary character ...
Last year, to celebrate POV’s 25th anniversary, Filmmaker organized a series of conversations between documentary directors whose work had been featured on the PBS non-fiction showcase. This year, we ...
Remembering her filmmaker father Charles B. Pierce, Dallas designer Amanda Squitiero first mentions the place he called home. “Arkansas claims him and he claimed Arkansas,” she says, having recently ...