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Trailer Watch: Pete Ohs’s Jethica
The trailer has dropped for director Pete Ohs’s microbudget horror film Jethica, which premiered at SXSW earlier this year. Ohs is also credited as the film’s cinematographer, editor and producer. Additionally, he co-wrote Jethica with cast members Callie Hernandez, Ashley Denise Robinson, Andy Faulkner and Will Madden. Acquired by Cinedigm today, the film will begin its theatrical run on January 13 at LA’s Lumiere Music Hall. Editor Scott Macaulay wrote of Jethica‘s premise in an interview we published with Ohs and the cast/co-writers out of SXSW: “Jethica is framed as a kind of post-coital campfire tale — Callie Hernandez’s Elena […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Dec 8, 2022 -
Columbia University Launches New Film MFA Concentration: Writing for Film & Television (Sponsored Post)
Columbia University School of the Arts Launches New Film MFA Concentration: Writing for Film & Television Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to announce a new addition to the Film MFA Program: the Writing for Film & Television concentration. This three-year program is designed specifically for students whose main focus is writing. “Columbia is known around the world as ‘the story school.’ We believe storytelling should underpin every aspect of filmmaking—because platforms and technology may change, but story is eternal,” said Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Chair of the Film Program, Jack Lechner. “Writing For Film & Television is […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 29, 2022 -
Everything Everywhere All At Once Leads 2023 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert‘s Everything Everywhere All At Once leads with eight total nods among the nominations for this year’s Independent Spirit Awards, which were announced today. They’re not the only former 25 New Faces of Film included: Charlotte Wells‘s engrossing debut Aftersun tallies five total noms; Ricky D’Ambrose‘s The Cathedral receives three; kogonada is lauded in the Best Director and Best Screenplay categories for After Yang; Dean Fleischer Camp (alongside Nick Paley) is nominated in the Best Editing category for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On; Lena Dunham‘s Catherine Called Birdy snags a Best Screenplay nod; Nikyatu Jusu […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 22, 2022 -
Artlist Set to Launch Artlist Max, an Industry-Disruptive All-in-One Platform (Sponsored Post)
[Tel Aviv, Israel, November 15, 2022] – Artlist, the industry-leading creative technology company, announced the consolidation of its services under one ultimate creative bundle that provides creators with music, sound effects, stock footage, templates, plugins and editing software. Since its founding in 2016 as a music licensing company, Artlist has continuously worked to expand its catalogs and services. The first expansion move was to launch the stock footage site Artgrid in the spring of 2019. In 2020, they released a vast catalog of high-quality sound effects. The third move was the acquisition of digital assets marketplace Motion Array, and the […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 16, 2022 -
Trailer Watch: Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Longtime AD Gregory Jacobs took over the director’s chair for Magic Mike XXL, but Steven Soderbergh is back to hammer home Magic Mike’s Last Dance, the third (and final, all involved swear) part of the Magic Mike series. The film is out February 10, 2023—”just in time for Valentine’s Day,” the advertising copy notes.
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 15, 2022 -
Fire of Love and The Territory Lead the 16th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors, a leading awards body that celebrates nonfiction filmmaking, announced today its full list of nominees for 2022. Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love (Filmmaker’s summer issue cover) and Alex Pritz’s The Territory both lead with seven nominations each across several categories, including editing, cinematography, sound design, direction and Outstanding Nonfiction Feature. Other films with multiple nominations are Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (our recent fall issue cover), Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes and Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream, among others. Women are particularly well-represented among this year’s nominees, including five out of six filmmakers highlighted in […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 10, 2022 -
Gina Prince-Bythewood to Receive Filmmaker Tribute, Don Katz to Receive Innovator Tribute at 2022 Gotham Awards
Today, the Gotham Film & Media Institute announced that director/writer/producer Gina Prince-Bythewood will receive the Filmmaker Tribute while Audible, Inc. founder and executive chairman Don Katz will receive the Innovator Tribute during this year’s Gotham Awards. The 32nd edition of the ceremony will take place live and in-person on Monday, November 28 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. You can find our previous coverage on the Gotham Awards nominees here. Prince-Bythewood recently directed the historical epic The Woman King, which hit U.S. theaters in September via Sony’s TriStar Pictures. The film centers on the Agojie, an all-woman military […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 9, 2022 -
Trailer Watch: Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale
The first trailer has arrived for Darren Aronofsky‘s dark drama The Whale, which stars Brendan Fraser in a highly-anticipated comeback role for the actor. The film had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in September before screening at the Toronto International Film Festival and London Film Festival. A24 will distribute the film stateside. Based on the 2012 play of the same name by Samuel D. Hunter (who wrote the screenplay), The Whale follows a 600-pound man named Charlie (Fraser), a reclusive former English teacher who attempts to re-connect with his estranged 17-year-old daughter (Sadie Sink). Hong Chau […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 8, 2022 -
Trailer Watch: Lorenzo Vigas’s The Box
Watch the trailer for Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas’s The Box (La caja) ahead of the film’s stateside release via Mubi. The film focuses on an adolescent boy named Hatzín (non-professional, first-time actor Hatzín Navarrete) from Mexico City, whose father’s corpse was recently discovered amid a mass grave in the country’s vast northern territory. On his way back to the capital after identifying the remains, he is shocked when he comes across a man who bears a striking resemblance to his dad. The boy quickly enmeshes himself in the man’s life—who denies any possible paternal relation—increasingly convinced that the body in […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 3, 2022 -
Trailer Watch: Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter
One year after releasing The Souvenir: Part II, the final chapter of her meditative meta-memoir project, British filmmaker Joanna Hogg returns with her sixth feature film, The Eternal Daughter. The mysterious and captivating trailer for the forthcoming A24 title was released today. The film stars Tilda Swinton, one of Hogg’s Souvenir collaborators, who occupies an intriguing dual role as an artist and her elderly mother who spend some time visiting an old family property. Though it used to be a sprawling mansion, it now exists as a modestly-sized hotel that the duo check into for an extended stay. While the […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 1, 2022
