The world premiere of Netflix’s animated feature “Ray Gunn” at the London Film Festival on Saturday coincided with a special day for one of its key creatives. As director Brad Bird noted in the introduction at the Royal Festival Hall, the premiere for the neo-noir sci-fi was also composer Michael Giacchino’s birthday. Bird then invited […]
Namkoong Sun, director of Netflix’s Korean romance “Love Untangled,” said her first commercial feature felt little different from her independent films once cameras rolled, apart from the scale. The freedom, she added, came with weight. Namkoong was speaking at “New Voices in Film,” an industry panel staged by the Busan International Film Festival and Netflix […]
When Kim Ji-yong read the script for “Possible Love,” its emotional climax, set in a still forest by the beach, had no wind in it. Korean summer storms on location changed that. The cinematographer behind “Decision to Leave” and “Squid Game” Season 2 asked director Lee Chang-dong to change the scene’s setup, a choice that […]
When Han Jun-hee binge-watched “House of Cards,” the series struck him as a game changer. It left him with one ambition: to make a story no one had told before, but that many people would watch. Delivering a masterclass at Netflix’s Creative Asia program during the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), the director of “Coin […]
Netflix has used AI in one form or another on some 300 of its titles, Lee Sung-gyun, the streamer’s senior director of APAC production, told an audience at the Busan International Film Festival. On the same panel, “The Outlaws” director Kang Yoon-sung said AI workflows could take 30% to 40% off a feature film’s production […]
“Once Upon a Time in Harlem” transports us back to 1972, when William Greaves orchestrated an afternoon gathering of the architects of the Harlem Renaissance at Duke Ellington’s apartment.
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Daylen Pollard talks about leaving the corporate world, building Pollard Pictures, making Frugal Man, Women in Christ and Brother Joseph Again, and the film community that helped him keep moving forward.
Though her latest Netflix documentary, NYFF closer "14th," shares DNA with her Oscar-nominated film "13th," director Ava DuVernay tells IndieWire that film was "very linear,” while “14th" is "a puzzle."
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Introducing the AI Literacy Hub on Sundance Collab Sundance Institute recently announced a three-year, product-agnostic AI Literacy Initiative for filmmakers, with initial support from Google.org. We launched this work to support artists who are navigating a rapidly changing landscape — one that raises practical questions about new tools alongside urgent creative, ethical, legal, and...