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Not unlike how a young Athina Rachel Tsangari ended up being part of a Richard Linklater film, Summer Shelton has been part of the fabric of the American indie scene dating back to a bit appearance in a David Gordon...

In a double Virginie Efira casting news type of day, we learn that after dropping in Rebecca Zlotowski’s Vie Privée, the actress will move into the arms (or away) of Arieh Worthalter (from career game-changing The Goldman Case) in Thomas...

Last week, we got the confirmation that Jodie Foster and Daniel Auteuil were toplining Rebecca Zlotowski’s Vie Privée and now we have a more complete picture with further casting announcements and a proper logline. Along with new team members in...

Ulrike Ottinger came out of a long gestation period for The Blood Countess and now fellow female German filmmaker Maren Ade is in early prep mode to direct her fourth feature film — which comes almost a full decade since...

She’s coming off a career-best with Other People’s Children (2022 Venice Film Festival selection) and recently was one of the scribes on Audrey Diwan’s Emmanuelle, Rebecca Zlotowski is confirmed to be in production on her sixth feature – one that...

The Devil and Donald Trump: Abbasi Reconstructs the Rise of a Crony Capitalist Among the many wise observations written by nineteenth century Englishman Lord Acton, he noted “Great men are almost always bad men…” But what if they were just...

Musician turned filmmaker Boots Riley is set to begin production on that always critical sophomore feature with a quartet of players that include muse LaKeith Stanfield (toplined Riley’s debut Sorry to Bother You), Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, and the Demi...

Ariane Louis-Seize‘s Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (winner of the Director’s Award at Giornate degli Autori section in Venice Film Festival last year) leads all nominations at the Prix Iris (aka Quebec Oscars) with a total of twenty-two including...

Franco-Moroccan filmmaker Sofia Alaoui (behind the brilliant Sundance Grand Prize-winning short So What If the Goats Die (2020) and the equally mystical supernatural bowl of soup feature in 2023’s Animalia) is among the half dozen invited guests to the Résidence...

Micro-budget American indie filmmaker Pete Ohs really doesn’t miss a beat. When he’s not directing—keeping up a steady pace with Youngstown (2021), Jethica (2022) and Love and Work (2024) — he might be on the editing dock with (e.g. Slave...