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Shudder Speed: Fantasia International Film Festival 2024
The largest genre film festival in North America, Montréal’s ever-growing Fantasia International Film Festival celebrated its 28th edition this summer. This was my seventh year covering for Filmmaker, my ninth in attendance and I arrived with a severe case of FOMO: at an industry party last year, I met a man dressed head-to-toe in a gigantic beaver costume, allegedly to promote a feature he had at the festival. He was charming, so I told him I’d make an effort to see Hundreds of Beavers, but a part of me, taken aback by the man’s zany attire and commitment to self-promotion, knew […]
by Erik Luers on Sep 24, 2024 -
“The Distributors Point the Finger at the Streamers”: Dea Kulumbegashvili on April
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s entrancing second feature grew partly out of preparations for her first, Beginning, when she cast children in Georgia and met mothers who married quite young and had large families. In April, Ia Sukhitashvili (the lead in Beginning) plays Nina, a leading obstetrician at a maternity clinic in eastern Georgia who delivers babies at the hospital and also secretly travels to houses in the countryside to perform abortions. But while there are social and legal complications to providing these services, as envisioned by Kulumbegashvili Nina’s story transcends conventional drama to be a sometimes hyperreal, sometimes enigmatic journey through darkness […]
by Nicolas Rapold on Sep 24, 2024 -
Make a $100,000 Genre Movie in 12 Days in Chicago: Writer/Director Zach Clark on The Becomers
High-concept movie formula makers will have a field day with Zach Clark’s The Becomers. Is its tender, yet often violent, saga of star-crossed – and serial human body inhabiting – lovers a hybrid of The Man Who Fell to Earth and Todd Solondz’ Palindromes (whose lead character is played by eight different actors) or an Invasion of the Body Snatchers updated for an N95-masked America? Or … something else? Clark’s first film since his widely beloved Little Sister (2016) wasn’t one he had in the pipeline. The New York-based writer-director-editor had put a heroic effort into launching a project on […]
by Steve Dollar on Sep 23, 2024 -
Film & Television Areas of Study at Full Sail University (Sponsored Post)
If you’re considering a career in film or television, it’s important to understand that there are many different roles in the field, so there are lots of opportunities where your interests and skills can be a good fit. Perhaps you enjoy directing others to perform a certain way. Maybe you’re a wordsmith who wants to pursue work in scriptwriting. Or you might like to design animated characters. Full Sail University offers many different areas of study that could lead to careers in the realm of film and television. While they focus on different aspects, all of Full Sail’s courses are […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 23, 2024 -
“I Always Write for Places Where They Won’t Kick Me Out”: Kazik Radwanski on Matt and Mara
Matt and Mara presents a familiar premise—two old friends with an unresolved romantic connection reconnect years after their lives have diverged—but Canadian writer-director Kazik Radwanski turns this potentially contrived narrative into an organic examination of interpersonal dynamics that’s tailored to the strengths of his performers and longtime creative collaborators Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson. When Matt (Johnson) grabs the attention of creative writing professor Mara (Campbell) right before she’s about to start class, it’s clear both are looking to break out of their ruts. Mara is out of sync with her musician husband Samir (Mounir Al Shami) amidst the daily […]
by Vikram Murthi on Sep 20, 2024 -
Venice Film Festival 2024: Before the Revolution
I was trying to make sense of my notes on Happyend when I noticed him. Arms akimbo, left hand drumming his gun holster, the cop was patrolling the press room looking equal parts annoyed, bored, and baleful. I glanced away; when I looked up again, another colleague had joined him in inspecting the crowd of journalists typing at their laptops like exam invigilators. For a festival as militarized as Venice, the sight might not be front-page news: Ever since my first trip in 2014, the security corps deployed across the Lido have grown almost exponentially, reaching near-Orwellian levels in 2020, […]
by Leonardo Goi on Sep 19, 2024 -
Angalis Field
Set in New York City’s Chinatown, Bust follows plainclothes police officer Flora (Lux Pascal), who has been given the assignment of incriminating a ketamine dealer, Ruby (Nicky DeMarie). While the arrest goes off without a hitch, what fills Angalis Field’s film with tension is that the customer and dealer are both trans women. Ruby, who has lost a friend to a recent overdose and is selling to raise the necessary funds for a future medical procedure, shares with Flora her personal woes. Listening to these struggles, Flora appears close to succumbing to crippling internalized guilt. Is Flora a sellout for […]
by Emily Huse on Sep 18, 2024 -
Emma D. Miller
“I am interested in how we perform our identity, how we heal and connect with one another and the construction of self,” says producer and now director Emma D. Miller about the kinds of documentary projects she’s drawn to. With Elizabeth Lo’s Mistress Dispeller having just premiered in Venice and her own directorial debut in the latter stages of production, Miller says she embraces films “where there’s some sort of journey happening, a process of inquiry and discovery. Ultimately, I want to find a way to understand who we are and how we relate to one another a little better.” […]
by Emily Huse on Sep 18, 2024 -
Masha Ko
Masha Ko had many jobs in the Los Angeles film industry—reality TV story PA, producer, production designer, music video casting director—before she decided to get a master’s degree at USC. But she didn’t study film, obtaining instead a M.S. in applied psychology, a program “where you study consumer and organizational psychology, which you can then apply to any discipline.” The discipline Ko chose was, naturally, film, and as part of her course work she did “a big study on horror film consumers from a psychological lens. I feel like I truly got a deep insight into what fear is. When […]
by Emily Huse on Sep 18, 2024 -
Annie Ning
Recently, Annie Ning has been digging through photos and videos from her childhood, which was split between her birthplace of Illinois and her parents’ native China. “I have absolutely no memory of this, but there were two years where I guess I really wanted to be a filmmaker,” she says. “I can hear myself on camera yelling ‘action!’ to my friends and explaining how to frame a shot.” About to begin production on a short inspired by her experience at a Chinese international school circa 2008, she’s been using this personal archive as a major reference point. Set “right on […]
by Emily Huse on Sep 18, 2024
