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Oscars international feature race 2025 guide: the Asia Pacific contenders
Major box-office successes pepper the selections from Asia Pacific this year. Screen surveys a region that has won the international feature Oscar twice in the past five years.
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The hot market titles to look out for at IDFA 2024
Screen profiles a selection of key titles available across IDFA.
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Why attracting world premieres helps Just Film stand out from the main Tallinn festival
Brian Durnin’s Irish film ‘Spilt Milk’ has made its world debut at the Estonian festival.
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Tallinn’s industry head looks forward to presenting projects, talking AI and debating funding sources
The Tallinn industry programme closed attendance applications early for the first time.
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How IDFA’s DocLab is pushing the boundaries of documentary and reality
DocLab’s Caspar Sonnen on why this year’s theme is ‘This Is Not A Simulation’
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Record entries, big budgets and new funders: How the IDFA Forum for creative docs is shaping up
Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen, IDFA’s head of industry, says she was surprised by the sheer number of entries this year.
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Oscars international feature race 2025 guide: the contenders from Europe
Europe has picked up the best international feature Oscar for the past two years. Screen surveys the state of play this cycle for the dominant region.
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What the drastic cull of UK soaps means for the film industry
Leading figures in the UK film and TV industry are sounding the alarm about the loss of UK soap ‘Doctors’ as an egalitarian training ground.
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“Documentary film has always been annoying to authorities,” says IDFA’s Orwa Nyrabia
The artistic director is embracing issues from AI to global politics in his final edition that opens today.
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Oscars international feature race 2025 guide: the contenders from the Americas
The Americas region last achieved an Oscar nomination two years ago, and most recently won in 2019.
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Cairo film festival returns with fresh leadership and a renewed vision after 2023 cancellation
In October 2023, less than a month before the opening of the 45th edition, the festival and market were cancelled following the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza conflict.
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Tallinn director Tiina Lokk warns about threats to film festival independence
”There is no right to demand that you should take a film off your programme,” says Lokk.
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Seville film festival head explains how the Spanish event supports European films in the awards conversation
Manuel Cristóbal is overseeing his second edition as festival director of the Spanish festival.
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Growth mindset: Calculus Capital’s John Glencross explains what he looks for from UK production companies
Five years after entering the UK screen industries, Glencross reflects on how Calculus’ investments in six indie production companies are performing.
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Why the UK and Ireland’s next generation of auteurs are looking to French sales agents
What impact is this having on the homegrown UK indie sector?
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Anton CEO on why it’s a good time to be making films out of Europe
”The UK has some of the best talents in the world. You just need people like us to fund it.”
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US sellers of faith- and values-based films eye international market
Companies like Angel Studios and Pinnacle Peak Pictures are reaping the rewards with theatrical features.
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TCCF 2024: Taiwan hot projects
The Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) runs until November 8.
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Three experts describe using AI in their creative work
Newen Studios’ Margot Wilwertz, filmmaker Simon Jaquemet and academic Douglas Edric Stanley were talking at the Geneva Digital Market.
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My Screen Life: IFTA head Jean Prewitt on AFM’s Las Vegas move, hopes for the industry
The president and CEO of the Independent Film & Television Alliance on her Las Vegas plans,