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E very spring, I look forward to heading across the state for the Seattle International Film Festival, where I usually spend five or six movie-filled days, devouring an unhealthy number of Dicks burgers in between screenings. 2020, of course, had different plans for all of us. After a hiatus last year, SIFF is returning via online platforms for its 2021 edition, offering 92 features and even more shorts, as well as filmmaker Q&As and virtual hangouts. I attended (from my couch, of course) t...

Nanfu Wang, Stanley Nelson films added to Hot Docs’ special presentations roster The Hot Docs International Documentary Festival has added 13 more documentary features that will screen as part of this year’s Special Presentations program. The festival’s Special Presentations selection features world ... March 16, 2021 The Hot Docs I...

NOW Magazine Hot Docs 2021: Films on Bruce Mau, Sesame Street join lineup The documentary film fest has announced another round of high-profile titles playing this year By Kevin Ritchie Mar 16, 2021 In The Same Breath, Nanfu Wangs investigation into the origins of COVID-19, will play at the 2021 Hot Docs film festival. Films on designer Bruce Mau, women in stand-up comedy and disgraced Nike track coach Alberto Salazar will screen at the 2021 Hot Docs film festival. The titles are part...

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Realscreen has put together some of our most recent interviews with and stories about female filmmakers and recently announced industry initiatives aimed at women creators. The film and television business as a whole has had a lot of catching up to do when it comes to gender parity behind the camera. According to the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film, in 2020 percentages of behind-the-scenes women working on the top 100 and 250 ...

Berlin: How COVID-19 Has Changed Onscreen Storytelling Jennifer Konerman Homeroom The coronavirus pandemic has obviously changed how movies are being made, with the extra costs involved in testing and implementing strict hygienic regimes, and the constant threat hanging over every shoot that a local outbreak or lockdown could shut things down.  But what impact has the once-in-a-lifetime, global experience of the Corona crisis had on what stories filmmakers want to tell?  The ...

Homeroom The new crop of films that screened at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals are evidence that the global pandemic is having an impact on the stories filmmakers want to tell: "The pandemic has just exposed and revealed so many issues that were in our society." The coronavirus pandemic has obviously changed how movies are being made, with the extra costs involved in testing and implementing strict hygienic regimes, and the constant threat hanging over every shoot that a local outbreak ...

Ana Katz, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet, 2021, DCP, black-and-white, sound, 73 minutes. THE PRIZES WERE AWARDED a month ago, some very big deals have closed in recent weeks, and the Sundance Film Festival has closed its streaming platform, hopefully never to be used again—at least not as the primary means of connecting Sundance’s chosen movies to Sundance audiences. Having covered the festival for thirty-two years, the place—Park City, Utah—and my ten-day routine there is stamped int...

Scoob! Title Sequence (Title Design Competition) Significant Other (Midnight Shorts Competition) Sonic the Hedgehog Title Sequence (Title Design Competition) Sophie and The Baron (Documentary Shorts Competition) Space Explorers: The ISS Experience Episode 2: Advance (Virtual Cinema Competition) Squeegee (Narrative Shorts Competition) Stuffed (Midnight Shorts Competition) Swamp Thing Title Sequence (Title Design Competition) Ten Leaves Dilated (Documentary Shorts Competition) The 100 Title Seque...

Canon Creative Studio Presents: Sundance 2021 Standouts - Part 1 Examining a selection of the recent festival’s most interesting features, with an eye toward outstanding camerawork. At top, from the feature Coda, which won multiple awards at Sundance this year. Going mostly virtual for the first time, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival featured fewer movies than usual (73) but attracted an audience 2.7 times larger than its typical 11-day Utah edition, according to festival reps.  Though the ...

click to enlarge Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Jack Mitchell This year the 2021 Sundance Film Festival was virtual, and its offerings trimmed down from previous years. It included 73 feature films, 50 short films, four Indie Series, 23 talks and events, and 14 New Frontier multimedia projects. We watched 38 of the 73 films, inclu...