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All Features articles – Page 13
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Features“Existential dread” is fuelling the genre boom says Fantasia festival head Mitch Davis
Source: Vincent Frechette Mitch Davis Like its recent predecessors, this year’s 29th edition of Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal will reflect a genre film scene whose output is “built on existential dread and the anxiety of a world that’s changing for the worse,” says festival ...
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FeaturesHow NYAFF is bringing “bizarre, weird and wild” Asian cinema to the US
Guests being honoured at the 2025 edition include Lisa Lu, Ekin Cheng, Natalie Hsu, Vivian Song and Tadanobu Asano.
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FeaturesLena Dunham on her slate, creative freedom and ‘Too Much’
“I really love taking genres that feel well-worn and then seeing what we can inject into them.”
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FeaturesGözde Kural talks Afghanistan-set ‘Cinema Jazireh’: “Every partner had to be convinced one by one”
Turkish director’s sophomore feature, which world premieres at Karlovy Vary, is a co-production between Turkey, Iran, Romania and Bulgaria.
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Features‘Kneecap’ producer Trevor Birney on his next project with Rich Peppiatt and Ireland’s cross-border challenges
Birney has two projects screening this week at the Galway Film Fleadh, ’The Negotiator’ and ’Boy George & Culture Club’.
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Features“It bowled us over”: Galway Film Fleadh heads on the vibrancy of Irish cinema
The Irish festival runs from June 8-13.
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Features‘Leonora In The Morning Light’ overcomes funding setback to premiere in Guadalajara and Munich
Indie Sales has international rights to the biopic about the English surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.
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FeaturesApple’s Eddy Cue on the motivation behind pioneering ‘F1’ haptic trailer
“Every movie studio has called us to ask how it was done.”
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FeaturesThe making and marketing of word-of-mouth UK comedy hit ‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’
Film has been championed by a wide range of podcasters, comedians, journalists and industry figures such as Notting Hill director Richard Curtis.
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FeaturesOrwa Nyrabia reflects on his “rollercoaster” seven years at the head of IDFA
“One of the key problems with institutional work in culture is how institutions get so used to [doing] things,” says the Syrian filmmaker.
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FeaturesWhy informal discussions form the bedrock of Munich film festival’s lively industry progamme
The pre-summer hoilday gathering brings together leading German and international execs
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FeaturesHow event cinema specialist Trafalgar Releasing became a top 10 UK distributor
Trafalgar Releasing is now among the top 10 distribution companies in the UK — how far can the event cinema specialist go?
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FeaturesMunich film festival’s Julia Weigl and Christoph Gröner talk about the rising German filmmakers to watch
Artistic director Weigl and managing director Gröner are at the helm for a third year.
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FeaturesIs the US appetite for UK series changing in a temperamental market?
Screen speaks with buyers, sellers and analysts to assess the US’ continuing desire to bet on UK shows.
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FeaturesInternational buyers head to London Screenings in search of one-to-one meetings about UK films
FIlms screening include Mister Smith’s ‘Bone Lake’.
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FeaturesHow ‘Andor’ creator Tony Gilroy drew on years of “fascist rebellion greatest hits” to create ‘Star Wars’ spin-off
Andor creator and showrunner Tony Gilroy discusses how 4,000 years of revolutions helped create a riveting political drama, without a Jedi knight or Skywalker in sight
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FeaturesSelling ‘The Salt Path’: how international distributors are turning the UK film into a box-office hit
The film based on a best-selling memoir has been a success in UK-Ireland, the Netherlands and Australia-New Zealand to date.
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FeaturesMalta’s film commissioner on keeping his country a leading destination for international shoots
The commissioner spoke to Screen ahead of the third Mediterrane Film Festival, which runs June 21-29.
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FeaturesWhy Paul Feig broke his no-sequel rule with ‘Another Simple Favor’ and chose to go straight to streaming
Director Paul Feig explains why he felt compelled to return to the world of glamorous backstabbing for his Prime Video sequel Another Simple Favor.
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Features“Being an outsider allows you a little bit of objectivity,” explains the US showrunner of IRA drama ‘Say Nothing’
Screen talks to showrunner Joshua Zetumer and actors Lola Petticrew and Maxine Peake.