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New/Next Film Festival Announces First Titles in Its Inaugural Lineup
New/Next Film Festival, produced by Baltimore NPR affiliate station 88.1 WYPR and curated by programmer Eric Allen Hatch, announces today the first titles in its inaugural 2023 lineup. The festival was created in reaction to the recent news that the Maryland Film Festival would not have a 2023 edition. New/Next will run from August 18-20 and be hosted at the five-screen Charles Theatre in Baltimore. “I’m thrilled to be back at The Charles Theatre, bringing some of the most exciting cinema I’ve seen in recent years to our audiences,” said Hatch, who was MdFF’s director of programming from 2010-2018, in […]
by Natalia Keogan on Jun 29, 2023 -
Trailer Watch: Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper
Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Prize at Sundance this year, the trailer arrives for Scrapper, the feature debut from British writer-director Charlotte Regan. The film will hit U.S. theaters—including New York City’s IFC Center—via Kino Lorber on August 25. An official synopsis reads: This vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows Georgie (Lola Campbell), a resourceful 12-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali (Alin Uzun) and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jun 29, 2023 -
Maya Daisy Hawke Shares Masterclass Films Proof of Self and Notes on Notes
“A cutting room is a place where you see things that haven’t been seen before and may never be seen again,” says non-fiction editor and filmmaker Maya Daisy Hawke in Proof of Self, one of two masterclass short films (alongside Notes on Notes) that she’s made available to watch on Vimeo. “It’s where a certain amount of magic happens and where the truth gets buried—because ultimately once it’s been captured, it’s no longer real.” Proof of Self is 24-minutes long and partially explores Hawke’s nagging suspicion that she was “living in a spy novel” while editing the 2022 doc Navalny, […]
by Natalia Keogan on Jun 28, 2023 -
“I’m Not a Fly on the Wall, I’m Not Invisible”: Jeanie Finlay on Your Fat Friend
Over the past 15 years, British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay has earned a reputation for nuanced, sensitive and compelling documentary portraits. Her films have told many unlikely stories: the rise and fall of a reluctant Elvis lookalike in Orion: The Man Who Would Be King, two Scottish hip hop fraudsters in The Great Hip Hop Hoax, a pregnant transgender man in Seahorse. Her third feature film, Sound it Out, told the story of the last record shop in the Northeast of England and its owner, Tom Butchart, a school friend of Finlay’s. The morning after the world premiere of Finlay’s latest […]
by Carol Nahra on Jun 27, 2023 -
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by Vadim Rizov on Jun 27, 2023 -
Acting Their Age: Dustin Guy Defa on The Adults
“It was a highly anticipated scene for me,” Hannah Gross told me with a laugh. “It’s just so absurd. For anyone who has a complicated relationship, spoken or unspoken, with a sibling, it’s the ideal scenario: to get to express your grievances through the safety of these voices.” I’d asked her about a memorable moment near the end of The Adults, Dustin Guy Defa’s follow-up to Person to Person (2017). Gross, Michael Cera and Sophia Lillis star as estranged siblings still reckoning with the death of their mother and still adjusting, unsuccessfully for the most part, to the disappointments of […]
by Darren Hughes on Jun 27, 2023 -
Crash Course: A Professor Quickly Learns about AI
Earlier this year, as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Runway and a long list of other AI tools ignited a national conversation about artificial intelligence, many of my colleagues in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California shuddered in horror over the displacement of human craft and creativity by visuals created through simple text prompts. Published in The New York Times in February, columnist Kevin Roose’s description of his creepy conversation with Bing added gasoline to the fire, prompting a desire to prohibit the use of all AI across all of our programs. And what about plagiarism?! The general […]
by Holly Willis on Jun 27, 2023 -
Earth Mama DP Jody Lee Lipes
Jody Lee Lipes likes to ask questions—so many, in fact, that the cinematographer says it can sometimes annoy directors. However, Lipes found a collaborator with an equally inexhaustible inquisitiveness in Savanah Leaf. “Savanah wanted to go through every scene together [during prep],” said Lipes. “I loved it because that’s my favorite thing to do. We would talk about a scene for like three hours. We went literally word by word through the script.” Lipes, whose credits include Manchester by the Sea, Martha Marcy May Marlene and I Know This Much Is True, first met Leaf on a commercial. They developed […]
by Matt Mulcahey on Jun 27, 2023 -
Rebelling Against the Independent Film Industrial Complex
The hyper-industrialization of the independent film space and the shift away from in-person screening to the vertically integrated streaming-sphere means that content curation is increasingly more general (massified), with fewer people participating in the process of sharing films with the public. In general, the U.S. A-list film festival circuit, where independent voices used to be able to thrive in more ragtag and aesthetically diverse ways, is now mostly a self-reflexive bourgeois echo chamber of sanctimonious gatekeepers serving corporate interests and neoliberal logics. Something has to change. Perhaps it’s time to turn away from the independent film industrial complex and toward […]
by Sophia Haid and Keisha N Knight on Jun 27, 2023 -
A Productive Friction
The restructuring of media conglomerates in the wake of streaming’s stagnating growth has left documentarians on shaky ground. Industry efforts to impress stockholders with cost-cutting measures and broad appeal entertainment have led to some high-profile layoffs in the nonfiction field and the sense among independents that there are few financing and distribution deals for formally experimental projects that challenge viewers’ political assumptions. So, what films are being made right now? What do alternative paths to exhibition look like? And how might thinking through the relationship between commercial and public media present possibilities for a more inclusive documentary culture on and […]
by Joshua Glick on Jun 27, 2023
