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Filmmaker MagazineUSASpa Eclectics: At Karlovy Vary 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
Filmmaker MagazineUSAWeaving The Odyssey 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
Filmmaker MagazineUSARemembering Sam Neill 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 t
Filmmaker MagazineUSANo Picnic Feasts at Film Forum 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.
Filmmaker MagazineUSADo You Love Me Reassembles Lebanon’s Cultural Memory 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 assem
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Filmmaker MagazineUSAFull Sail University Teams Sweep All Three Major Awards in Coca-Cola Refreshing Films Program [Sponsored] 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 gra
Filmmaker MagazineUSAThe Emmys’ Locks, Hopefuls, and Snubs 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
Filmmaker MagazineUSATake Care: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse 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 festiva
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Filmmaker MagazineUSAThe Los Angeles Film School: Craft your story, leave a legacy [Sponsored] 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
Filmmaker MagazineUSAScary Movie and the Wayans’ Spoof Empire 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 absen
Filmmaker MagazineUSA“We’re Magnifying Stupid”: Jeff Tremaine on Jackass: Best and Last In Jackass: Best and Last (2026), some of the cast get unexpectedly wistful about the possibility that this will be the final chapter of the brilliantly sophomoric series. The man who has been behind the camera and orche
Filmmaker MagazineUSAFix Your Heart or Die: Adrian Chiarella on Leviticus Leviticus (2026), Adrian Chiarella’s debut feature, begins with an archetypal horror image: a “little death” that begets a big one. In this cold open, a lesbian lifeguard succumbs to the lubricious persuasions of an invi
Filmmaker MagazineUSASlow Burn: Dispatch from Cannes The wearied refrain—Cannes 2026 was a ho-hum edition, no masterpieces to see here, take the earlier flight home—obscured the quiet revolution taking place in film after film. This was a year of stories that build: All of
Filmmaker MagazineUSALive From Cine Gear Expo 2026 If NAB Show seems to inspire a mini–existential crisis in me each year, as I am forced to reckon with cinema’s diminishing relevance amidst other growth arenas in video, Cine Gear Expo invites more optimistic vibes with
Filmmaker MagazineUSAColbert, Kimmel, and the Battle of Late Night While covering the Academy Awards may have its challenges, the Emmys are a much bigger venture. Twenty-three awards will be handed out at the Primetime Emmys on September 14, honoring nominees across the comedy, drama, a
Filmmaker MagazineUSAThe Gotham EDU Announces 2026 EDU Film and Media Career Development Program Cohort The Gotham, Filmmaker’s publisher, announces today the cohort of the 2026 edition of The Gotham EDU Film and Media Career Development Program. The eight-week virtual program will allow college students from across the co
Filmmaker MagazineUSAI Shot I Shot Andy Warhol Before she brought the charismatic serial killer Patrick Bateman to life in American Psycho (2000) Mary Harron devised a portrait of another kind of New York pathology with I Shot Andy Warhol (1996). When I went to colle
Filmmaker MagazineUSA“I Hope They Boo”: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim Take Cannes Laurel and Hardy, Martin and Lewis, Nichols and May… Tim and Eric. A double-act for the ages, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim first teamed up as students at Temple University in Philadelphia, and secured comedy-legend st
Filmmaker MagazineUSATaiwan International Doc Fest: The Island a Stage In 1998, the Taiwan International Documentary Festival held its first edition, a decade after martial law was lifted in the island nation. It was a particularly exciting moment for documentary in Taiwan: independent vide
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