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Sundance Institute Announces 2023 Fellows for Directors, Screenwriters and Native Labs
Today, Sundance Institute announces the 2023 fellows for its Directors, Screenwriters and Native Labs. 12 fellows will join this year’s Directors and Screenwriters cohort, while the Native Lab will support five fellows. The Native Lab, which supports Indigenous filmmakers developing feature films and episodic projects, will begin with an online portion that runs May 1-5 before continuing in-person in Santa Fe, New Mexico from May 8-13. Of the five fellows participating, three are from the US while the other two hail from Canada (selected with the Indigenous Screen Office) and New Zealand (selected with the New Zealand Film Commission). Largely […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 27, 2023 -
Cannes Film Festival Reveals 2023 Short Film and La Cinef Selections
Over the past two weeks, the 76th Cannes Film Festival has announced its overall lineup, Directors’ Fortnight titles and even additional films to this year’s slate. Now, short films and La Cinef selections round out the 2023 festival, which will run from May 16-27. 11 shorts from 12 countries are represented in the 2023 short film competition, and The Short Film Palme d’or will be awarded by the Jury chaired by Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi. Meanwhile, the 26th edition of La Cinef, a program that selects works submitted by film school students, features 14 narrative shorts and two animated shorts. […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 27, 2023 -
Overlook Film Festival 2023: American Monsters and Final Musings (Matinee, The Tingler, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster)
The last official day of Overlook arrived, and I was pleased to spend it watching a double feature of Joe Dante’s Matinee (a special 30th anniversary screening) and William Castle’s 1959 film The Tingler. The double header was programmed by Dante himself, and after the screening I was scheduled to conduct a 20-minute interview with the director. I’d seen Matinee before, and upon re-watch was struck again by how lush and detailed each aspect of the film’s production is. The set decoration only creeps up on ‘60s-era pastiche, managing to evoke nostalgic memory more than hokey over-stylization. Even the wardrobe […]
by Natalia Keogan on Apr 27, 2023 -
Trailer Watch: Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life
With the Cannes Film Festival fast approaching, the first trailer has arrived for Strange Way of Life, Pedro Almodóvar‘s latest to premiere on the Croisette. The Saint Laurent-backed, 30-minute short film stars Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as two men who reconnect after many years apart. This is Almodóvar’s second English-language effort, the first being the 2020 short film The Human Voice starring Tilda Swinton. The film’s official synopsis reads: A man rides a horse across the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to visit Sheriff Jake. Twenty-five years earlier, both the sheriff and Silva, the rancher who […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 26, 2023 -
Tribeca Festival Unveils 2023 Short Film Lineup
Tribeca Festival announces today its 2023 short film lineup, which arrives shortly after feature film, TV and NOW programming was revealed last week. This year’s short film slate includes 76 titles across narrative, documentary, animation and music video categories. The Festival will run from June 7-18 in New York City. Of the 91 filmmakers attached to short films at the 2023 Festival, several are actors-turned-directors. Harry Holland casts brother Tom in his latest short Last Call; Francesca Scorsese makes her directorial debut with Fish Out of Water; British actor Alex Lawther also steps behind the camera with For people in […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 25, 2023 -
Visions du Réel 2023: Follow the Water, Zimmerwald, Knit’s Island, Human, Not Human
I’d enjoyed watching films from Visions du Réel online over the last three years, but in-theater is always better and this year that became possible. “I’m very interested in the festival, not so much the idea of ‘visiting Switzerland,’” I kept insisting in the weeks leading to my first IRL attendance—historically I’m left cold by the splendors of nature, don’t ski and have no large or illicit banking transactions to perform (to my regret!)—but that statement needed revision after arriving. On my first morning in Nyon, I walked to Lake Geneva and realized it looked uncannily familiar from Goodbye to […]
by Vadim Rizov on Apr 25, 2023 -
“The Only Thing We Have Is the Moment”: Betsey Brown (Back to One, Episode 250)
My first encounter with the work of actor, writer, director Betsey Brown was her captivating and shocking performance in The Scary of Sixty-First. Then, in her first feature film Actors, she and her brother Peter Vack play over-the-top versions of themselves in a wildly fictional, yet super-personal exploration of their relationship that boldly pulls out all the cinematic stops. It’s the kind of rare indie that gives you hope for the future of film. In this episode, she talks about the aspects of the acting craft that are central to her—patience, relaxation, fearlessness, appreciation, the importance of the present moment—plus […]
by Peter Rinaldi on Apr 25, 2023 -
Is Final Draft the Final Answer? On Alternatives to the Popular Screenwriting Software
If you’re a screenwriter or want to be a screenwriter, then at some point you will have used Final Draft. Co-founded in 1990 and now in its 12th version, the Final Draft screenwriting software boasts both a user-friendly interface and features related to both outlining and production. Final Draft’s great success—complete with a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award it received in 2013— has led it to become known as the “industry standard” for screenwriting. But at the same time, Final Draft has attracted a fair amount of criticism. Some screenwriters have complained about its high price, glitches, and the specifics […]
by Jesse Pasternack on Apr 24, 2023 -
Films by Amat Escalante, Pedro Costa, Robert Rodriguez, Jean-Stephane Sauvaire and More Added to Cannes Film Festival 2023 Lineup
After previous announcements revealed the initial lineup for the Cannes Film Festival and adjoining Directors’ Fortnight program, several more titles have just been added to the mix. Today, the festival announced 14 additional films that will debut on the Croisette within various sections, including efforts from Lisandro Alonso, Pedro Costa, Robert Rodriguez, Amat Escalante, Jean-Stephane Sauvaire and more. The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will run from May 16-27. Find the latest editions to this year’s lineup below. Competition: Black Flies by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire Le Retour by Catherine Corsini Cannes Premiere: Perdidos en la noche by Amat Escalante […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 24, 2023 -
Secrecy and the Creation of “Nakedness” On Screen: Director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Producer Helen Hood Scheer on Their Documentary, Body Parts
In their documentary Body Parts, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2022 and is now streaming on digital platforms, director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and producer Helen Hood Scheer confront issues of the male gaze and male supremacy within the film industry. The vastly informative film explores topics such as body doubling, beauty retouching in post, sexual harrassment on set and the introduction of intimacy coordination. Through candid interviews, an expansive array of archival footage and reenactments, this film thoroughly uncovers the darker history of sex on screen, also highlighting the ways in which tides are changing with more female filmmakers […]
by Eliza Park on Apr 21, 2023
