Gen Carmel provides first-hand accounts from a filmmaker and programmer who tried to attend the 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival, including a confrontational video between festivalgoers and plain clothes police, as well as the entire festival program.
…her latest move last May, from the comfortable and prestigious post of vice president of programming at PBS, to multimedia editor at a fledgling startup, OneWorld TV, which was just…
How did the buying and selling stack up at this year’s TIFF? Courtney Sheehan takes the temp of the ever-feverish world of independent film exhibition and distribution by talking with Adam Birnbaum (Avon Theatre), Julie Anderson Friesen (Cinema Falls), and Andrew Carlin (Oscilloscope Laboratories).
…contact between independent filmmakers and international financiers, commissioning editors, co-producers, and distributors. When and why did it come into being? Michael Ehrenzweig and I [Wendy Braitman] inaugurated IFFCON in 1994….
Senior Film Critic Kurt Brokaw offers recommendations from the 28th edition of the New York Jewish Film Festival (32 features, 6 shorts, most US, World, or New York premieres). The festival, which runs from January 9th through the 22nd, is co-sponsored by the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Check through January 22nd for updates!
…indie drama with some light moments, Robin had also edited comedies like White Men Can’t Jump and television shows like Lipstick Jungle. It was clear she could handle comedic and…
In 2001, Athina Rachel Tsangari graced our cover. Fourteen years later, Dana Knight sat down with Tsangari, NYFF’s 2015 Filmmaker In Residence, at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Learn why men ask: “We’re not like that and who are you, a woman, judging us in this way?” about Tsangari’s latest film, Chevalier.
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…to their fellow citizens. It’s free to every American household and seen in a commercial-free environment. That is phenomenal in my opinion.” Wednesday mornings are one of the most rewarding…