The Odyssey (Christoper Nolan, 2026): 4 out of 5 stars The renowned epic poem “The Odyssey,” authored by mysterious Greek poet Homer, is made up of 24 books and tells the story of Odysseus and his journey back home after the Trojan War. Director Christopher Nolan’s 13th film, The Odyssey, puts Homer’s work on the […]
TEN BETS FOR TFF #53-VOL.5
The countdown to TFF #53 grows shorter and shorter. H
Here's the fifth installment of MTFB's Ten Bets, the weekly guess at what films make the Telluride lineup. We start with a reminder of last week's bets:
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Bucking Fastard
Club Kid
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The Raindance Film Festival has unveiled a new partnership with Israeli AI creative development platform IMGN, launching an initial £10,000 ($13,394) film fund to support independent filmmakers alongside a dedicated development hub tied to the Raindance Script Competition. Announced at the 34th Raindance Film Festival in London, the IMGN/Raindance Film Fund is aimed at emerging […]
“La Puta Vida,” a new international feature starring Colombian actor Claudio Cataño – star of Netflix’s acclaimed adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” – has begun filming in Chile. A five-country co-production led by Columbia’s Red Collision Studios and Chile’s Afro Films, “La Puta Vida” is directed by Chilean filmmaker Sebastián […]
David Martínez, executive director of Raindance, and Jacky Orozco, its producer, have launched Casa Leo PR, a boutique publicity and strategy agency and a much needed addition to Europe and Latin America’s indie scene. London-based, Casa Leo PR offers specialized “end-to-end and bespoke PR, strategic guidance and in-house productions to a select number of films, […]
Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy discussed the unauthorized use of Beatles songs in “In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones,” the growing presence of artificial intelligence in cinema, and the handmade aesthetic of independent filmmaking during a Q&A at BFI Southbank on July 15, following the U.K. premiere of the film’s 4K restoration. On the […]
Independently financed American genre films rarely arrive without scars. In the case of “Cowboy,” Nathan Grubbs’ directorial debut, which bowed at London’s Raindance Film Festival, the struggle to get the film made became almost inseparable from the story being told. Produced through Rubicon Entertainment, the contemporary Southern noir Western was constructed incrementally, with Grubbs...
Ten filmmakers unveiled their AI-native short films at the recently concluded Raindance Film Festival in London, with the project – titled “Lost Canon” – produced by Moonmax and built entirely on CapCut Video Studio. The initiative was commissioned jointly by CapCut, the AI-powered creative platform used by creators across more than 200 regions worldwide, and […]
Parallax Films has come aboard “The House on the Moon,” the Singapore wuxia science-fiction feature set to world-premiere in international competition at the 79th Locarno Film Festival, as worldwide sales agent. The company holds exclusive rights across most international territories. German-speaking territories, Taiwan and Singapore are excluded from that exclusivity, while Parallax also...
Among the final stops on the road to their expected premieres at the major prestige film festivals of 2027 — most notably Cannes — are these half-dozen projects being presented at the Final Cut in Venice work-in-progress lab.