Gabourey Sidibe appears in Precious, an official selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of the Sundance Institute By Jessica Herndon If you’ve started making your way through our Sundance Film Festival 101, you know it’s more than a watchlist. It’s a trip through four decades of independent cinematic gems. To help you dive […]
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Ten Emerging Filmmakers Ages 18 to 25 Will Start Fellowship Year at Ignite Lab from June 14–19 LOS ANGELES, CA, June 15, 2026 — The
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Director/co-writer Matt Johnson ("Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie") and stars Dominic Sessa and Leo Woodall sat down at the Provincetown International Film Festival to discuss their upcoming film — which isn't a biopic, but about a pivotal slice of life in the late "Kitchen Confidential" author's life.
IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all sections, including logged reviews and forthcoming ones.
Indigenous director Banchi Hanuse’s “Ceremony” won the Audience Award at SXSW, a DGC Award at Hot Docs and the First Nations Award at the Sydney Film Festival — that success underlines her goals with the film. The film screens June 19 at the Bentonville Film Festival. Hanuse spent 12 years with the story of her […]
Indonesian director Ismail Basbeth has set “Love Letters of Our Life” as his next feature. The director is at the Shanghai International Film Festival presenting the world premiere of his film “My Own Last Supper”, which is part of the main competition. “Love Letters of Our Life” is set in 1995 and revolves around a […]
Australian auteur Warwick Thornton attended a post-screening event at the Shanghai International Film Festival following the Chinese premiere of “Wolfram,” his latest feature, which was in the main competition of the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. Set in a 1930s Australian mining town, the film follows two Aboriginal siblings, Max and Kid, who are […]
The jury of Leila Bekhti and peers Thomas Cailley, Angele Diabang, Laura Samani, and Lebanese composer Khaled Mouzanar handed out the prizing for the Un Certain Regard section (and we have those moments captured on video).
Juno Hong’s “Only the Moon Knows” claimed the Annual Focus award at SIFF Project, the project promotion component of the Shanghai International Film Festival. It also took home the Regent Presents “Cinematic Escapes” Special Focus Award, worth 200,000 IHG One Rewards Points. “I’m so excited and also got complicated feelings,” said Hong after the ceremony. […]