Filmmaker Magazine

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has walked an improbable path of occupation, compromise, and survival. Its first edition was held in 1946, the year after Czechoslovakia was restored from Nazi rule and weeks before the first Cannes Film Festiv

When Christopher Nolan hired Jennifer Lame to edit Tenet, his 2020 sci-fi action thriller, she'd never worked on a project quite like it before. Her background was in far smaller films, including Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha (2012), Mistress America (2015),

I never got to meet Sam Neill, but I thought of him as a neighbor for a very specific reason: like me, he had sat in the front row to watch a movie at the Eglinton Theatre. There he is as cynical insurance investigator turned wild-eyed paranoiac John Tren

In 1985, downtown cinephile Phil Hartman used profits from the Great Jones Cafe, a beloved Cajun-inspired NoHo bar he cofounded two years earlier, to direct his first-and, to date, only completed-feature film, No Picnic. A noirish shaggy-dog punk comedy p

Lana Daher's debut feature, Do You Love Me (2026), is a kaleidoscopic exploration of Lebanon's cultural memory. The Beirut-based multidisciplinary artist drew from 70 years of found footage and archival material to assemble this visceral 76-minute portrai

Full Sail University teams swept the competition in the 2026 Coca-Cola Refreshing Films program, earning top honors across the nationwide filmmaking contest. Alongside a Red Ribbon Panel Grand Prize Award win for the graduate team's Behind the Screens and

This morning, Emmy winners Liza Colón-Zayas (The Bear) and Jeff Hiller (Somebody Somewhere, nominated again this year for his guest role in Pluribus) announced the nominees for the 78th Emmy Awards, which will be handed out across three ceremonies (one fo

I could tell by the title sequence alone-the camera gliding along a body, following the path of a telephone cord-that Night Nurse (2026) would not be like the other movies I had been seeing at Sundance. While the festival in aggregate leans toward safe pi

There's no industry more sought after than entertainment. Industry hopeful dream of being top-tier directors, thought-provoking screenwriters, or successful producers. The main obstacle is knowing where to start and how to build foundational skills on gea

The latest installment in the Scary Movie franchise is the sixth, though the numeral is pointedly left off the title. This is a form of protest. The Wayans family collectively disowned the three films made in their absence-Scary Movie 3 through 5 (2003, 2