Welcome to the fall 2024 issue of Filmmaker—our 32nd anniversary edition. Inside you’ll find, alongside our features, interviews and longform articles, our annual 25 New Faces section, which makes its 27th appearance. Over the past 12 months, we’ve been on the hunt for early career filmmakers who, individually and as a group, make a statement about how independent film is conceived of and practiced today. There is an unusually large number of hyphenates on the list this year—particularly producers, but also festival directors and cinematographers who are moving into directing while not necessarily giving up their day jobs. There’s a […]