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2025 Sundance: Hailey Gates, Katarina Zhu & Eva Victor in U.S. Dramatic Comp
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Among the batch of ten 2025 U.S. Dramatic Competition offerings we find the likes of actress Hailey Gates’ feature debut Atropia – produced by Luca Guadagnino (she can be seen in this year’s Challengers), we find Katarina Zhu’s Bunnylovr –...
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2025 Sundance: Laura Casabé, Flora Lau, Vladimir de Fontenay & Chloé Robichaud in World Cinema Dramatic Comp
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The long-awaited film by Flora Lau (LUX), Chloé Robichaud‘s take on a Quebec classic (1970’s Deux Femmes en or) in Two Women, Vladimir de Fontenay‘s sophomore feature Sukkwan Island and Argentina filmmaker Laura Casabé‘s thriller The Virgin of Quarry Lake...
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2025 Sundance: Cherien Dabis, Mary Bronstein, Amalia Ulman, Clint Bentley, Ira Sachs & Bill Condon in Premieres Section
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On paper, this year’s Premieres section offerings (fiction and non-fiction) should be all the hyope and talked about well into awards season. Some of the cherry offerings include one of the most difficult film productions for indie cinema in Cherien...
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2025 Sundance: Grace Glowicki, Meera Menon & Bryn Chainey Projects in the Midnight Section
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Long-time indie actress Grace Glowicki, Sundance alumni in Meera Menon (2016’s Equity) and Bryn Chainey are among the seven film projects selected for the Midnight section – and it wouldn’t be impossible to see one last offering to be added...
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2025 Sundance: Kahlil Joseph, Amanda Kramer & Albert Birney in Next Section
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Always our go-to section for truly unique singular voices working in micro cinema, Kahlil Joseph (a major music video filmmaker who needs no introduction) along with U.S in Progress alumni from the past two editions in Amanda Kramer and Albert...
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Seeking Haven For Mr. Rambo | 2024 Red Sea Intl. Film Festival Review
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First Blood: Khaled Mansour’s Debut Follows A Man Ready To Fight For The Fate Of His Dog In First Blood, John Rambo is a quiet and unassuming Vietnam war veteran who is pushed to take extreme measures when he’s bullied...
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Taste The Revolution | 2024 Red Sea Intl. Film Festival Review
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Revolution Summer: Klein Unearths A Political Satire Over 20 Years In The Making Making a movie is all about timing. If you’re lucky, you get the cast and crew you want, scrape together the money, go into production, and then...
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2024 Golden Globe Awards: Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist & Anora Take Pole Positions
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It’ll be a Cannes Film Festival competition rematch alongside the critical darling (Best Director) winning competition film from the Venice Film Festival. Emilia Pérez landed ten nominations including two Best Supporting Actresses nods Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña and two...
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2024 Rathaus Film Grant: Arrielle Sadé Mock
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Last week the SFFILM Rainin Grant announced the recipients of much-needed coin support (see the complete list of finalists), and today we learn the identity of this year’s 2024 Rathaus Film Grant recipient: Arrielle Sadé Mock. The coin will go...
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2024 European Film Awards: Jacques Audiard’s ‘Emilia Pérez’ Scoops Up Four Awards
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Except perhaps Souleymane’s Story‘s Abou Sangare biking away with the European Actor award (beating out Conclave‘s Ralph Fiennes) there were no surprises at last night’s European Film Awards with Jacques Audiard‘s Emilia Pérez winning four of the five prizes it...
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