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Grimmfest 2025: UK Genre Fest Reveals Full Line-up
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Our friends at Grimmfest have revealed the full lineup for this year's festival, to be held at the Oden Great Northern in Manchester, from October 9th through to the 12th. Always a perfect primer for spooky season this year's seventeenth...
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Sound And Vision: Jake Schreier
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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several music videos by Jake Schreier. Currently Jake Schreier is Hollywood's (and especially Marvel's) new go-to-guy, after the...
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Locarno 2025 Review: Lyrical MARE’S NEST Maps a Post-Adult World Through the Eyes of a Child
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Ben Rivers' film envisions a quietly unsettling world shaped by children, offering a reflective counterpoint to conventional post-apocalyptic stories. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Locarno 2025 Review: DON’T LET THE SUN Envisions a Sociological Dystopia of Emotional Surrogacy and Climatic Disconnection
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Jacqueline Zünd´s fiction debut, set in a nocturnal world rendered uninhabitable by climate collapse, follows a professional emotional surrogate whose carefully managed detachment begins to unravel when he's hired to play the father of a withdrawn young girl. [Read the...
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Locarno 2025 Industry: Locarno’s First Look Turns Spotlight on Canadian Cinema
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Locarno's First Look industry showcase turned its 14th edition spotlight on Canadian cinema, unveiling six diverse works in progress that underline the country's growing ambition and international reach. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Locarno 2025 Industry: Story Lab Showcases New Projects Merging Place, Politics, and Hybrid Storytelling
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New generation of filmmakers unveiled projects that blur fiction and documentary, reclaim overlooked histories, and probe urgent social questions, offering international partners early access to bold, globally resonant storytelling at Locarno's Story Lab Pitching Session. [Read the whole post on...
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Locarno 2025 Industry: Ed Guiney and Radu Jude on Trust, Conflict, and Resisting the Bigger-Is-Better Trap
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Producer Ed Guiney and director Radu Jude offered international film professionals a candid set of lessons on how trust, transparency, and the creative use of constraints can define, and ultimately strengthen, the producer-director relationship. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Locarno 2025: Jackie Chan On Mastering Every Craft, Defying Imitation, and Staying Relevant for Six Decades
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Jackie Chan's Locarno talk offered a rare, practical breakdown of how creative control, cultural awareness, and long-term strategy can shape a sustainable career. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Locarno 2025 Industry: Canada Opens Doors to Flexible Co-Production and Fresh Funding Pathways
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Canada used its spotlight at Locarno Pro to signal that international co-production is no longer an exception but a growing norm, backed by modernized treaties, robust financing, and globally competitive tax incentives. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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SILENCE: An Introduction to Eduardo Casanova’s Debut Series Before Fantastic Fest U.S. Premiere
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Eduardo Casanova, the evocative director of a ScreenAnarchy favorite, La Piedad/La Pieta, has set out unto the World their new project, Silence.   Silence reimagines the vampire myth to explore queer identity, HIV stigma, and social silence, spanning the Black...
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