Meet the next generation of American indie producers in fiction and the docu field. Today the Sundance Institute announced the producers selected for the upcoming Producers Labs (narrative it actually began today until the 19th) and the documentary producers then have their time in the sun from July 20th to the 25th.
“Victoria in the Clouds,” starring Berlin best actress winner Paulina García, and “Quemada,” from the producer of 2026 Cannes winner “Forever Your Maternal Animal,” both feature at the 2026 Costa Rica Media Market’s Desde el Centro, a projects showcase that highlights key upcoming titles and on-the-rise companies and the ambitions of one of the youngest […]
La Biennale di Venezia has named the international juries for the Horizons section and the Luigi De Laurentiis Venice award for a debut film at the 83rd Venice Film Festival. French director, actor and screenwriter Valérie Donzelli will chair the Horizons jury. She will be joined by American film distributor Peter Becker, Hong Kong-American director […]
The Skywalker Symphonies: John Williams and the Music of Star Wars Author: Frank Lehman Publisher: Oxford Music / Media Considers all nine of John Williams’s monumental Star Wars scores Combines rigorous analysis with accessible prose and bountiful musical examples Examines…
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The ICO team share some of their highlights from this year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, the world’s largest festival dedicated to cinematic heritage, rare archives, and film restoration. Contents: Network (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1976) House of Strangers (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949) A Bucket of Blood (dir. Roger Corman, 1959) The Devils (dir. Ken […]
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The Skywalker Symphonies: John Williams and the Music of Star Wars Author: Frank Lehman Publisher: Oxford Music / Media Considers all nine of John Williams’s monumental Star Wars scores Combines rigorous analysis with accessible prose and bountiful musical examples Examines the…
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What will surely be a flurry of festival announcements in the coming week ahead, we now shift our attention to the 2026 fall festival season.
The Venice Film Festival have announced the short films that will be part of the competition section and we find Italian illustrator Virginia Mori, Columbia Film program grad and Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film profiled Annie Ning, American-born Irish actress Saoirse Ronan first foray into filmmaking and Between the Temples‘ Nathan Silver offers (out of competition)...
Locarno Film Festival artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro has recruited some big names – including Isabella Rossellini, Darren Aronofsky, Olivia Wilde, and Caleb Landry Jones who, in various guises, are expected to be making the trek to the Swiss temple of indie cinema this year. On Thursday, Nazzaro unveiled his lineup of more than 200 […]
In “Fruit Gathering,” director and writer Aung Phyoe consciously avoided exploring the “social” impact of the relationship between two suppressed women, creating a sense of alienation but also deep intimacy. The film, which is premiering at the Karlovy Vary festival as part of the Crystal Globe competition and is co-produced by Myanmar, Czech Republic and […]