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Latest festival news – Page 4
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NewsAmanda Seyfried, Mona Fastvold talk changing “male-dominated” film business
“I’m always trying to create a community on set that’s a bit different,” said Fastvold.
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NewsMarrakech Film Festival restructures industry programme, launches Atlas Distribution Meetings
The changes will take effect for the upcoming edition in November.
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NewsSan Sebastian to open with world premiere of Daniel Hendler’s ‘27 Nights’
Kasia Adamik’s ‘Winter Of The Crow’ will close the festival.
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NewsMinerva takes on sales for $1m prize-winning Tribeca comedy drama ‘Honeyjoon’
EXCLUSIVE: Lilian T. Mehrel’s film world premiered at Tribeca this summer after winning AT&T’s $1m Untold Stories pitch competition at festival last year.
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NewsJim Jarmusch “disappointed and disconcerted” by Mubi Sequoia Capital funding
Jarmusch said Mubi CCO Jason Ropell called him “immediately” about the issue.
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NewsJude Law on danger of being “obsessive” in researching Vladimir Putin
Law said he didn’t fear “repercussions” in playing the Russian president: “We weren’t looking for controversy for controversy’s sake.”
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NewsVenice Film Festival sees huge Gaza protest
Thousands take part in march on the Lido but are prevented from accessing main festival area.
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NewsMontreal’s micro_scope launches international sales division with TIFF selection ‘Lovely Day’
EXCLUSIVE: Anick Poirier to commence talks with buyers in Toronto next week.
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NewsDeals land for Telluride docs ‘Man On The Run’, ‘Ghost Elephants’
No dates announced for McCartney doc; Nat Geo plans 2026 streaming debut for Werner Herzog film.
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News“We are stirring it up for you,” says Julia Roberts of #MeToo themes in ’After The Hunt’
“We are challenging people to have conversations and be excited or infuriated by that,” said Roberts in Venice.
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NewsBong Joon Ho to head Marrakech film festival 2025 jury
The South Korean auteur will preside over the 22nd edition of the festival.
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NewsCanadian distribution veteran Charles Tremblay named head of TIFF: The Market
EXCLUSIVE: Executive most recently served at Mubi.
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NewsAnna Kendrick, Seth Rogen in talks to star in ‘Babies’, AGC and Monarch to co-finance
AGC Studios, CAA Media Finance jointly represent worldwide rights.
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NewsNeon acquires worldwide rights to horror ‘Hokum’ starring Adam Scott
Cweature Features joins as co-producer alongside Image Nation, Spooky Pictures, and Team Thrives.
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NewsYorgos Lanthimos says it is getting “more and more difficult” to make independent films
“It’s a very complicated landscape. I wouldn’t rush to separate everything into categories.”
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News‘Jay Kelly’, ‘Urchin’, ‘Sentimental Value’ among Telluride selection
Rocky Mountains festival runs August 29-September 1.
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NewsLaszlo Nemes says “losing cinema” is connected to “conflict in civilisation”
“If we stop telling big stories, we condemn ourselves to downfall as a civilisation.”
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NewsVenice opens with Francis Ford Coppola tribute to “encyclopaedia” Werner Herzog
Ceremony host Emanuela Fanelli landed a joke about Venice and Cannes.
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NewsTIFF Discovery selection ‘Oca’ lands worldwide sales agent
EXCLUSIVE: Natalia Solián stars as nun on a pilgrimage.
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NewsCanada’s h264 acquires Metafilms drama ‘Lay Me By The Shore’ with Sean Harris
EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director David Findlay shooting in Vancouver and environs through September 5.