2025 Oxbelly Retreat Screenwriters Fellows & Advisors Announced

Oxbelly Beach Greek nonprofit Oxbelly has announced in a press release the participants of the 2025 Oxbelly Retreat, taking place June 28–July 6 at Costa Navarino in Messinia, Greece. The Oxbelly Retreat is an annual gathering of international storytellers, dedicated to the exchange of ideas, deepening of craft and broadening of artistic horizons through intercultural … Read more

‘Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print’ Trailer: Gloria Steinem’s Magazine

Gloria Steinem‘s legacy extends far beyond her literary achievements, but her beloved magazine Ms. is what really started a movement. The story of Ms. has been fictionalized onscreen in “Mrs. America,” “Minx,” and “Good Girls Revolt,” and even had a real-life syndicated spinoff “Woman Alive!” that started in 1974. The reach of Ms. is almost unfathomable — … Read more

Sundance Institute Directors Lab 2025: Chloe Sarbib

Ed Harris and Chloe Sarbib on-set (photo by Saffron Burrows) This month Filmmaker is publishing diaries from writers and directors who attended the 2025 Sundance Institute Directors Lab. Next up is Chloe Sarbib, who traveled to the Lab with Trou Normand. Here’s the description: “As her family prepares to leave their Normandy home, an aging actress … Read more

On Art, Porn, and Why His Films Are Both

Over his nearly 40-year career as a filmmaker and photographer, Toronto-based artist Bruce LaBruce has worn all labels possible for someone working in the subterranean margins of queer cinema. LaBruce has been called a radical leftist, a queer punk Marxist, an enfant terrible provocateur pornographer whose cult classics have hardcore and softcore cuts, many available … Read more

Michelle Lemuya Ikeny Interview on Kenya Oscar, Child Marriage

Nawi: Dear Future Me, a Kenyan-German coming-of-age drama about child marriage that was Kenya’s entry for the best international feature film race at the 2025 Oscars, has made waves in Kenya, on the film festival circuit and beyond. At the recent Beijing International Film Festival, the jury created a special jury honor to shine a spotlight on it. And on Friday, … Read more

The making and marketing of word-of-mouth UK comedy hit ‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’ | Features

UK comedy The Ballad Of Wallis Island opens the Munich Film Festival tomorrow night (June 28). The Munich premiere, through Universal Pictures International Germany, marks the latest stage in a carefully managed, gradual rollout of a film that has become something of a word-of-mouth hit since it world premiered at Sundance in January. The Ballad … Read more