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Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Like many couples quarantined together during the early days of COVID, spouses and occasional cinematic collaborators Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan found themselves saddled with “creative cabin fever” and an excess of time on their hands. Just weeks prior to the pandemic’s arrival in the United States, Shaw was working on a surreal play based on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was quarantined off the coast of Japan for two weeks in February 2020 when 712 passengers were stricken ill with COVID. Before long, though, the circumstances that intrigued Shaw from afar became a permanent presence in her and […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 11, 2022 -
Ariela Barer
NY-based actor, writer, producer and director Ariela Barer knew she wanted to act from the time she was four. “I was asking my parents for an agent, and that confused them,” she laughs. Her parents allowed her to do children’s theater, and from a young age she worked steadily, appearing on shows like ER and New Girl while going to school. “I have been a working professional from a very young age,” she says. “I’m grateful for my experience working in this industry while also being grateful I stayed outside of it enough to take the time I needed to […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 11, 2022 -
Alec Moeller
Shot on richly textured three-perf 35mm, Alec Moeller’s Empath follows Kate (Betsey Brown), who’s prone to uncontrollable tears at the slightest provocation, e.g., seeing a clown drawing made by her psychiatrist’s son. “He must be such a sad little boy to paint such a very good clown,” she bawls. The doctor thinks she needs mood stabilizers, but Kate seeks out more meaningful help at a support group for “hyper-empaths,” who describe themselves as simply feeling too much. The group is run by a suspiciously controlling doctor (Michele Simms), and the short derives tension from the increasingly hard-to-pin-down motivations of its […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 11, 2022 -
Tij D’oyen
Tij D’oyen’s Lollygag—which received a Grand Jury Honorable Mention at its Outfest premiere this year—is a blackly comic reminiscence of a formative teen summer. In flatly enunciated Greek voiceover, a girl (Gaby Slape) recalls the season she spent spying from her bedroom window on the boy next door (Isaac Powell). Already aware that she wasn’t attracted to men, the anonymous narrator nonetheless found herself staring at her neighbor and his seemingly endless string of visiting lovers as he “lounged and drank and swam and smoked.” “Sometimes the way he acted gave me a funny feeling,” she recalls. “The feeling that […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 11, 2022 -
Triangle of Sadness Star Dolly de Leon on Finally Letting “Whatever I Have in My Body or in My Heart” Out
Dolly de Leon is a Filipina veteran actor of film and TV who is now, due to her outstanding performance in Triangle of Sadness, being spoken about with words like “newcomer” and “breakthrough.” That might have something to do with the “I’m the captain now” nature of the role she plays in the Palme d’Or winning film. It’s like the character and the actor are both saying “I have arrived.” In this episode, she describes the dark place she was in right before auditioning for the part, how director Ruben Ostlund’s collaborative approach sparked her dynamic creativity, why watching the […]
by Peter Rinaldi on Oct 11, 2022 -
Trailer Watch: Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo
Watch the trailer for 84-year-old Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo, the director’s first film in seven years. The titular donkey is originally part of a traveling circus troupe (under the loving care of a young woman named Kasandra) before he’s shuttled off to a string of different owners. These subsequent caretakers oscillate between cruelty and tenderness, randomly determining the sweet donkey’s quality of life. Greatly influenced by Robert Bresson’s 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar, Eo premiered at Cannes earlier this year, where it tied for the Jury Prize with Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s The Eight Mountains. In his […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 6, 2022 -
SXSW Film & TV Festival Director Janet Pierson Becomes Director Emeritus, Claudette Godfrey Promoted to Director
Today, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals announced that Janet Pierson, long-time VP, Director of the SXSW Film & TV Festival will shift to the role of Director Emeritus. Film Festival Programming Director Claudette Godfrey will now assume leadership of the SXSW Film & TV Festival. The 2022 edition of the SXSW Film & TV Festival marked Pierson’s 15th year as Festival Director. Her 45-year career has included various roles in the independent film landscape, notably as exhibitor, producer’s rep, executive producer and segment producer and segment director of IFC-Criterion’s Split Screen. According to a press release announcing […]
by Natalia Keogan on Oct 5, 2022 -
Trailer Watch: Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All
The extended trailer has arrived for Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, which stars Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet as nomadic cannibal lovers traversing Reagan’s America. The screenplay was written by David Kajganich (who previously collaborated with Guadagnino on A Bigger Splash and Suspiria) and is based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis. The film premiered at this year’s Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion for best direction. The latest trailer reveals finer plot details, including background as to why Maren (Russell) is forced to go on the run in […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 5, 2022 -
Global Conversations: Camden International Film Festival and Points North Pitch 2022
Two long, anxious years of ever-shifting pandemic regulations, shutdowns and travel obstacles turned the expansive, buoyant and super-social Camden International Film Festival into a largely local and virtual affair. Though the festival—an essential annual magnet for the nonfiction film community—did a stellar job meeting the challenge, any Zoom subscriber knows the workarounds get wearying. There’s nothing like the real thing. No doubt that accounted for the “extra” vibe at this year’s gathering, the first full-fledged staging of the festival since 2019. As always, the 18th edition was situated in a cluster of picturesque towns in north coastal Maine: Camden, Rockland […]
by Steve Dollar on Oct 5, 2022 -
U.S. in Progress Wroclaw Announces 8 Selected 2022 Edition Projects
The American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland has announced the eight feature film projects selected for the 12th edition of the U.S. in Progress co-production forum, taking place November 9 – 11, 2022 at the festival. Invite-only work-in-progress screenings of American independent films in their final editing stages, curated from a record number of submissions, will be screened for European and Polish film professionals, festival programmers and buyers. Additionally, projects will compete for in-kind awards of post-production service pcckages. The selected projects are: Crooked Finger directed by Julia Halperin and Jason Cortlund, produced by Julia Halperin and Todd Remis Falling […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 4, 2022
