All Features articles – Page 47
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FeaturesWhy Tallinn Black Nights festival has adjusted its strategy with emerging filmmakers
“We want to select films with clear stories that are easy to sell.”
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FeaturesMichel Ciment: tribute to a titan of film criticism
Fellow cineaste, writer and lifelong friend Dan Fainaru celebrates the life and career of Michel Ciment.
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FeaturesJA Bayona on making ‘Society Of The Snow’ as realistic as possible: “It was like shooting a documentary”
With Society Of The Snow, JA Bayona wanted to dig beneath the shocking legend of the 1972 rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes.
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Features“We screen 440 hours of new content a year:” How Al Jazeera is becoming a major documentary player
“We are a bridge between filmmakers to the north and to the south.”
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FeaturesHow TikTok helped reverse the box office fortunes for ‘Consent’ in France
The sexual abuse drama has managed to multiply its ticket sales tenfold since its tepid opening in French theatres last month.
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FeaturesHow Tallinn Black Nights is putting sustainability, diversity and inclusion at the forefront of everything it does
The festival has created its first sustainability, diversity and inclusion officer.
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FeaturesHow Marrakech is pushing on with its star-powered 2023 edition: “The festival needed to happen this year”
The festival runs November 24 to December 2.
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FeaturesOscars international feature race 2024: the contenders from Africa and the Middle East
Leading the cohort is Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Senegalese entry Banel & Adama, the sole feature debut in competition at Cannes.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: Cornerstone Films’ Carla Quarto di Palo on coming to film late and the future of sales
The newly promoted head of sales at London and Los Angeles-based Cornerstone Films talks about her love of Billy Wilder and why her favourite film festival is Toronto.
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FeaturesJoe Houlberg Silva explains how his debut feature doc ‘Ozogoche’ took flight
’Ozogoche’, a world premiere at IDFA, is about a species of sandpiper bird and the community who live around their lake.
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FeaturesOscars international feature race 2024: the Asia Pacific contenders
Parasite and Drive My Car won the 2020 and 2022 international feature Oscars — but the Asia Pacific region failed to land a nomination at the 2023 awards.
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FeaturesOscars international feature race 2024: the contenders from Europe
Europe dominated last year’s international feature Oscar, earning four out of five nominations and winning with Germany’s entry.
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FeaturesOscars international feature race 2024: the contenders from the Americas
The Americas region scored Oscar and Bafta nominations last year with Santiago Mitre’s historical drama ’Argentina, 1985’.
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FeaturesWhy Jean Michel-Jarre believes VR is the next great art form
”“Throughout history, it is techmology that has dictated styles in arts - and not the reverse,” said the legendary French composer and perrformer at the Geneva film festival.
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FeaturesIDFA’s industry head talks making a living from docs, the market’s reality check and standing out in the autumn calendar
Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen laments the decrease in broadcaster engagement with authored docs.
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Features“Be kind, attentive, and not an asshole”: Industry@Tallinn’s Marge Liiske sets the tone for Black Nights platform
Industry head Marge Liiske talks bringing new participants to the platform, and continued high costs.
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Features‘Techno-feminism’ can tackle the male gaze in immersive content, say female creatives
A talk at the Geneva Digital Market explored the impact of female gaze and the male gaze in immersive projects.
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FeaturesHow IDFA’s DocLab is bringing a “weightless, ephemeral digital experience’ to a physical festival audience
DocLab’s Casper Sonnen explains why this year’s theme is ’Phenomenal Fiction’.
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FeaturesUkrainian director Olga Chernykh on her IDFA opening documentary ’A Picture To Remember ’
Director tells Screen about the deeply personal approach she has taken with her first documentary
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FeaturesTCCF 2023: six hot projects from Taiwan
Taiwan Creative Content Fest runs until November 11.