Ten years is a long time to carry a story. Ervin Han, co-founder of Singapore’s Robot Playground Media, had been living with “The Violinist” for most of that stretch before it finally screened in competition at the Annecy Animation Festival this year – and walked away with the Cristal for best feature and the SACEM […]
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 full programme for ID Screening Days is now confirmed, featuring I Love Boosters and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. The last passes are […]
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San Francisco holds a special place in Colman Domingo’s heart. He called it home from 1991 to 2001 and it’s where “I became of age as an artist,” he says. It’s only fitting that Variety, in partnership with the Frameline Film Festival, honors Domingo with our Creative Conscience Award June 27 at the Castro Theatre. […]
A LEGEND OF TFF PASSES
Jim Bedford passed away on Saturday, June 20th, 2026. He was 81.
Bedford, "BF" to his friends, was a giant part of the Telluride Film Festival from the very beginning listed as the Fest's Telluride "coordinator" right below the founders of the fest in the 1974 program for TFF #1.
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Inspiration can come from anywhere, but first-time filmmaker David Ketterer Spencer took that idea to wild ends with his “Souvenir.” He writes for IndieWire about breaking a story with a little piece of found ephemera.
There is a romanticized version of independent filmmaking that people often imagine — a passionate artist with a great script, a group of believers, and a dream that somehow finds its way to the screen. Filmmaker D.J. Hale writes for IndieWire why that wasn't his story in making “Rescued.”
Filmhouse is one! Technically tomorrow, but at Edinburgh's Filmhouse Cinema the birthday celebrations stretch from June to July, and in today's show we hear more about the birthday programming from Program Manager Raymah Tariq.
Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri and Camille Vidal-Naquet have landed important coin for their upcoming feature film projects via Eurimages.
Supergirl (Craig Gillespie, 2026) 1 out of 5 stars It’s tough finding novel ways to tell superhero stories these days, given the 21st-century glut in the movie market, so kudos to anyone trying their best to say something new. Unfortunately, originality does not emerge from surface retooling of genre tropes but rather from inventive writing […]
Studio Khara, the Japan-based animation house behind the “Evangelion” franchise, has boarded “Baahubali: The Eternal War Part 1” to produce a dedicated animated sequence for the film. SlowCurve, the Japanese production company that brought Studio Khara onto the project, will handle planning and production coordination between the Japanese and international teams. The segment will be […]