By Jessica Herndon One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent filmmaking. While we can learn a lot about the filmmakers from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival through the art that these storytellers share with us, there’s always more we can […]
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Welcome back to your monthly round-up from the ICO, featuring the latest opportunities for your cinema, festival, or film society and industry highlights from the UK and beyond. ICO News The ICO are recruiting a new Chair of the Board of Trustees. This role is a great opportunity for a dynamic individual to support the […]
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Atlanta Story Partners (ASP) today announced that its feature documentary “ The Games in Black & White” will have its world premiere as a Special Presentation of the 49th Annual Atlanta Film Festival.“ The Games in Black & White” focuses on historic Olympic quest of Billy Payne and Andy Young and its transformative impact on “The City Too Busy to Hate”
Another vital writer’s retreat on the film festival circuit unveiled their invites today – Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (TFL) selected a sweet sixteen film project for its 2025 edition of ScriptLab and among the notables we find Anna Hints moving into fiction with Black Hairy Beast after Estonian Smoke Sauna and Costa Brava Lebanon‘s Mounia Akl returns to directing cinema with Hold Me (If You...
The Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence is welcoming Flóra Anna Buda, Andrea Gatopoulos, Xiwen Cong, Simon Maria Kubiena, Constance Tsang and Rodrigo Ribeyro to their 49th session.
By Jessica Herndon It’s vital to keep pushing for a world where all identities are valued and seen in all their authenticity. Through Sundance Institute–supported films that center honest portrayals of trans experiences brought to life by trans actors, we continue to create space for a broad spectrum of dynamic stories. These movies, and the […]
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Bau, Artist at War, the powerful historical drama directed by Sean McNamara (Reagan, Soul Surfer), will have its theatrical release by ShowBiz Direct in the U.S. and Canada on September 26, 2025. The film, which stars Hirsch as real-life Holocaust survivor and artist Joseph Bau, is distributed by ShowBiz Direct and Republic Pictures.
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Norwegian actor/filmmaker Espen Alknes started his acting career doing stage performances in theaters, one of which includes the National Theater in Oslo. He has contributed to multiple TV series and films. He is known for “Stardust” (2020) and “What's on Your Mind?” (2014) and Camping in Paradise (2023).
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Brandon Lattman was born in San Diego, California on the 5th February 1992. In 2015 he moved to Los Angeles to study filmmaking at The New York Film Academy where he found an interest in cinematography. He also developed himself in other filmmaking areas such as directing, writing and editing. He is known for his work on The Waltz of the Monsters (2017), Repertoire of Memory (2016) and...