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2026 Sundance Producers Labs: Kara Grace Miller, Natalie Remplakowski & Marie Alyse Rodriguez Selected
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Meet the next generation of American indie producers in fiction and the docu field. Today the Sundance Institute announced the producers selected for the upcoming Producers Labs (narrative it actually began today until the 19th) and the documentary producers then...
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Michael Cera’s ‘Love Is Not The Answer’ – Everything We Know So Far … (American Indie Edition)
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Known as Paulie Bleeker in Juno, Nick Twisp in Youth in Revolt and Scott Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, for two decades plus, we’ve had minimalist deadpan delivery and anxious naturalism in Michael Cera cinema with notable turns...
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Luna Carmoon’s ‘To Make Ends Meat’ – Everything We Know So Far …
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A provocative new voice in British cinema, Luna Carmoon moved into feature films with a bang via Hoard (read review), her audacious debut starring Joseph Quinn and Hayley Squires premiered in the International Critics’ Week section of the 2023 Venice...
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Amma Asante, Florian Zeller, Mike Leigh, Michael Dowse, Kamila Andini Among Our TIFF 2026 Predictions
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What will surely be a flurry of festival announcements in the coming week ahead, we now shift our attention to the 2026 fall festival season. With Toronto serving as the primary focus, we’ve assembled fifty titles that could potentially make...
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2026 Venice: Virginia Mori, Annie Ning, Saoirse Ronan & Nathan Silver in Orizzonti Shorts
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The Venice Film Festival have announced the short films that will be part of the competition section and we find Italian illustrator Virginia Mori, Columbia Film program grad and Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film profiled Annie Ning,...
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Non Factory Girl: Greenwich Entertainment Adopts Zou Jing’s ‘A Girl Unknown’
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Making more and more inroads into auteur world cinema with the likes of Fernando Eimbcke, Michel Franco and Lance Hammer, Greenwich Entertainment have now completed some post-Cannes shopping landing the remarkable feature debut and Cannes Critics’ Week winner in Zou...
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2026 Locarno: Hong Sang-soo, Basil Da Cunha, Lê Bảo, Ann Oren, Florin Șerban, Denis Côté, León & Cociña in Comp
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Fighting off the selection committees for Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian, artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro unveiled the line-up for the 79th edition of Locarno Film Festival — which opens with Gagarine tandem Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s magical realist...
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Destination Denmark: Focus Features Lands Simon Stone’s ‘Elsinore’ for Awards Season Run
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After Ira Sachs brought the Croisette The Man I Love, the story of a gay stage actor navigating 1980s New York while confronting an AIDS diagnosis, Simon Stone explored similar territory with a biographical drama centered on actor Ian Charleson,...
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2026 TIFF: Siân Heder’s ‘Being Heumann’ Selected as TIFF Opener
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We have a trio of Gala Presentation offerings to announce. Best Picture winning director of Coda will see her follow up feature open and world premiere the 51st edition of the Toronto Intl. Film Festival – this clears it off...
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Black Money for White Nights | 2026 Karlovy Vary Film Festival Review
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Steal Big, Steal Little: Grozeva & Valchanov Deliver Just Deserts It’s difficult not to feel a sense of schadenfreude in following the drastic downfall of a long-married Bulgarian couple in Black Money for White Nights, the latest from directing duo...
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