Munich-based Autentic has nabbed international rights to the award-winning Swiss docuseries “Game Over – The Fall of Credit Suisse,” Simon Helbling’s chronicle of the once mighty Swiss bank’s dramatic 2023 collapse and its takeover by rival UBS. Written and directed by Helbling and co-penned by journalist Arthur Rutishauser, the four-part series explores the reality behind […]
Josephine (Beth de Araújo, 2026) 4½ out of 5 stars The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic winner from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Beth de Araújo’s Josephine also happened to be my personal favorite. And yet, it is simultaneously the one I am most hesitant to recommend. It opens on Josephine, an ordinary eight-year-old whose […]
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Josephine (Beth de Araújo, 2026) 4½ out of 5 stars The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic winner from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Beth de Araújo’s Josephine also happened to be my personal favorite. And yet, it is simultaneously the one I am most hesitant to recommend. It opens on Josephine, an ordinary eight-year-old whose […]
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When you’re writing your first script, it’s tempting to think big. Multiple locations. Big set pieces. Constant movement. But one of the smartest choices a first-time filmmaker can make is also one of the simplest: write your script with a single location in mind.
Why one location makes everything easier
A single-location script dramatically lowers the barriers between writing...
INTERVIEW WITH WRITER DIRECTOR TOMER ALMAGOR FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR "KLIFHAUS" (2026)
After the 2025 Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), I interviewed writer-director Tomer Almagor. We spoke at length about his illustrious career as an independent filmmaker, and his latest film psychological horror "Klifhaus" (2026). His film10 Kilos of Cocaine screened at BIFF. The film...
INTERVIEW WITH WRITER DIRECTOR TOMER ALMAGOR FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR "KLIFHAUS" (2026)
After the 2025 Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), I interviewed writer-director Tomer Almagor. We spoke at length about his illustrious career as an independent filmmaker, and his latest film psychological horror "Klifhaus" (2026). His film10 Kilos of Cocaine screened at BIFF. The film...
INTERVIEW WITH WRITER DIRECTOR TOMER ALMAGOR FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR "KLIFHAUS" (2026)
After the 2025 Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), I interviewed writer-director Tomer Almagor. We spoke at length about his illustrious career as an independent filmmaker, and his latest film psychological horror "Klifhaus" (2026). His film10 Kilos of Cocaine screened at BIFF. The film...
This is one of the most common — and most misunderstood — questions filmmakers ask.
The honest answer is: sometimes, but not in the way film festivals used to.
Distribution has changed dramatically over the last decade, and with it, the role film festivals play in that process.
How distribution used to work
For a long time, film festivals were the primary place distributors...
For Indonesian filmmaker Wregas Bhanuteja, trance rituals aren’t about the supernatural or exotic — they’re about joy, community, and the many different ways humans find happiness. In “Levitating” (Para Perasuk), his latest feature competing in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance, the director explores these themes through the story of a young musician’s obsessive […]
Japanese star Rinko Kikuchi is returning to the Sundance Film Festival for the second time as a lead actor, bringing the multilingual drama “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” to Park City’s U.S. Dramatic Competition. The Tokyo-set feature, directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka, marks Kikuchi’s first Sundance selection since 2014’s “Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter.” Kikuchi, who received […]