In Japan the very first few snowflakes begin to fall signaling the change of seasons. Another clue is we see young Takuya (Keitatsu Koshiyama) and his baseball-playing buddies taking those final swings at bat and moving on to ice hockey. That is basically how this quiet and lilting charmer of …
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Roger Corman has passed away. He died on May 9th at the age of 98 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., surrounded by family members, the family Corman was the willful spirit of independent filmmaking and he left behind a legacy that has shaped the film industry. Known affectionately …
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EXCLUSIVE: The Arab Film Club, a popular monthly film club on Arab cinema based in London, is expanding. Actress and presenter Sarah Agha, the club’s founder and curator, is launching The Arab Film Club Podcast, debuting Wednesday, May 1, with an initial five-episode season. Episodes will drop on Podbean, Apple, …
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The phrase, “a change of heart,” would forever alter the course of Freddy Macdonald’s life. Last month, the 23-year-old wunderkind’s feature directorial debut, Sew Torn, premiered at South by Southwest to glowing reviews, capping an extraordinary five-plus years for the young filmmaker. As a high school senior, Macdonald — whose American …
Read More »Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of Apocalypse Now, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87. Coppola died Friday surrounded by family at home in Rutherford, California, her family announced …
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The Concordia Fellowship provides crucial financial and professional support to diverse non-fiction storytellers in sixth class. Concordia Studio, the company behind the acclaimed Emmy-winning documentary film, STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie, directed by founder Davis Guggenheim, is awarding four filmmakers the Concordia Fellowship for 2024. As the artist development …
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Cass Warner, filmmaker, author and granddaughter of Harry Warner, co-founder of Warner Bros., has died. She was 76. Her death was announced by her son and Yellowstone actor Cole Hauser on his Instagram page. “Her kindness, love, humor and amazing spirit will be missed by not only my family but the world. You …
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Your latest feature film, To Die Alone, has garnered critical acclaim, exploring themes of trauma and isolation. Can you share the inspiration behind this project and what you aimed to convey to your audience? I did a lot of backpacking in the Sierra Nevadas growing up, and I was always …
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No Other Land co-director Yuval Abraham has hit out at German politicians and the Israeli media for branding his award-winning acceptance speech at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday as “antisemitic.” In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Abraham, part of a collective of four Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers that took …
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EXCLUSIVE: UPDATE 9.30 am, 1/27 PT The producers of Daniel Espinosa’s Italy-set immigration drama Madame Luna have expressed “dismay” at a lawsuit lodged against them by filmmaker Binyam Berhane, who says they misappropriated an original story and material created by him for the film. The lawsuit filed in L.A. County …
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When we woke up on October 7 to the stories of the barbarity of Hamas, when we heard about the hostages, when we saw the footage of the obliterated homes on various kibbutzim, when we were told the massive death toll and saw kidnappings before our very eyes, when we heard …
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Cord Jefferson has had quite a week and it’s barely Wednesday. The American Fiction writer-director spent Monday evening in San Francisco where he received the George Gund III Award for Virtuosity presented by one of his stars, John Ortiz, during the SFFILM Awards at the city’s Yerba Buena Center for …
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