Exclusive: SXSW VP film & TV Claudette Godfrey and senior programmer Peter Hall tell IndieWire about the "intangible" qualities that make a film right for the festival. “I think a lot of festivals are ...
Three hundred seventeen films are eligible for this year’s Academy Awards, according to a list released on Thursday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Of those, 201 are eligible in ...
The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood history. This climate of consolidation and capitulation gave a ...
"Our mission is to champion extraordinary cinema while creating a bridge for emerging filmmakers to enter the international distribution landscape,” says Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Vilpa. By Georg ...
For our most comprehensive year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2025. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable ...
Yeelen Cohen was two years old and running around a Malian restaurant in Paris when their mother called out their name. After confirming the child was named after Souleymane Cissé’s landmark film ...
As the institutions on THR’s annual list prepare the next generation for the future, many are turning to virtual production, LED walls and, yes, AI. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter ...
One of the icons of independent cinema, Christine Vachon is celebrating 30 years of Killer Films, the production banner she set up in 1995 with Pamela Koffler. Across three decades and more than 100 ...
More than 500 influential directors, actors and other notable names in Hollywood and around the world voted on the best films released since Jan. 1, 2000. Here is how their ballots stacked up. Between ...
Janus Films has acquired another movie from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, this time in Lav Diaz’s historical drama “Magellan.” The film stars Gael García Bernal as the Portuguese explorer and ...
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is a wrap, with a slew of new movies that will now set the stage and tone for the movie year ahead. And that includes the Oscar season ahead, especially as the French ...
Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...