The Las Cruces International Film Festival will reveal its 2026 collectible, commemorative poster from 6-8 p.m. March 6 at the Farm & Ranch Museum. Asiah will be on hand to […]
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Las Cruces, NM — The Las Cruces International Film Festival (LCIFF) is thrilled to announce that the much anticipated film “She Dances,” featuring acclaimed actor Steve Zahn, will serve as […]
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Sales company Asian Shadows has acquired international rights to South Korean documentary “The Seoul Guardians,” directed by MBC journalists Jong Woo Kim, Shin Wan Kim and Chul Young Cho. The feature-length documentary will have its world premiere at the 55th International Film Festival Rotterdam. “The Seoul Guardians” chronicles six tense hours inside and outside South […]
Italy’s Torino Film Festival is set to celebrate the centennial of Marilyn Monroe’s birth with an extensive retrospective comprising 24 films featuring the Golden age of Hollywood icon. Monroe – who was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in 1926 and died of a barbiturate overdose in 1962 at the age of 36 in her Brentwood home […]
This is one of the most common — and most misunderstood — questions filmmakers ask.
The honest answer is: sometimes, but not in the way film festivals used to.
Distribution has changed dramatically over the last decade, and with it, the role film festivals play in that process.
How distribution used to work
For a long time, film festivals were the primary place distributors...
L–R: Jonathan Cuchacovich, Sonia Kennebeck, Alan Fischer, Daeil Kim, Andrew Stanton, Colby Day, Tetiana Anderson 2026 Sundance Film Festival Awards Juried Sloan Feature Film Prize to In The Blink of An Eye by Director Andrew Stanton and Grants Three Screenwriting Fellowships PARK CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 26, 2026 — Today at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, […]
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Long before you attend a festival — even before you submit — it’s important to understand why you’re doing this in the first place. The filmmakers who get the most out of festivals are showing up with goals.
Those goals might include:
Audience feedback
Finding new collaborators
Building industry connections...
OSCAR ODDS AND ENDS
Now that we have Oscar nominees, here are some tidbits about what did and didn't happen:
*MTFB goes 95/125 in predicting the nominees. That's a 76% accuracy rate and slightly below my average percentage for accuracy.
*By comparison my accuracy would have tied me for ninth among Gold Deby's 45 Experts and second among their editors. Not as good as...
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