I was recently invited to edit a documentary about a Filipino guy who has had himself crucified—cross, nails, the whole bit—40 times since the mid-1980s. The footage is graceful and sinister: a rural community rallying around its celebrity heretic, rehearsing detailed scripts, whipping their withered Christ as he carries a cross through town every Good Friday. The interviews with friends and family are inspiring until you start feeling queasy. This project has languished since 2014. I told the Denmark-based director to get some new footage and described where the cameras should be placed, how the pounding of the nails should […]

It used to be so simple: Release a movie in theaters and, several months later, it would come to your local video store. Nowadays, each and every film’s release pattern and chosen distribution platforms are—or, at least, should be—idiosyncratic, unique, and specifically tailored. “The first thing you have to ask yourself,” distribution consultant Michael Tuckman says, “is who is your audience, and work backwards from there to figure out what windowing you’re going to do.” If the target audience is a young demographic who spend most of their time on devices, then, according to The Orchard’s Paul Davidson, “a SVOD […]

Feminist film journal Another Gaze heads to New York this week for two events surrounding the issue launch of their debut print edition. On Saturday at the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation there will be a free day of discussions and panels, and, on Thursday at Union Docs a screening of shorts in which women filmmakers reframe onscreen sexual violence. From our own print issue, here’s our interview with editor Daniella Shreir about her decision to add an analog component to her already impressive web publication. “I didn’t want it to look too essentialist or zine-y,” says London-born writer, editor […]