Category: Festivals
‘Song Sung Blue’ Review: Hugh Jackman And Kate Hudson Make Attractive Neil Diamond Music In Surprising Biopic Of A Tribute Band – AFI Fest
If Song Sung Blue, which had its World Premiere as the Closing Night film of AFI Fest, weren’t a true story no one would ever have the nerve to mak [...]
Austin Film Festival Announces Script & Film Competition Awards
EXCLUSIVE: The Austin Film Festival has announced its 2025 Script and Film Competition Award winners. The 32nd annual fete recognized a modern clas [...]
What A WBD Week: As Bidders Circle, Paramount’s Shock And Awe Signals A New Media Age
Even in an industry increasingly accustomed to head-snapping change, this has been quite a week.
After Paramount Skydance made the third in an [...]
Isabel Coixet’s ‘Three Goodbyes’ opens Valladolid International Film Week
Seminci, the Valladolid International Film Week, opens today (October 25) with Isabel Coixet’s Three Goodbyes, one of 24 features in the Golden [...]
‘I See The Demon’ leads winners at UK’s Grimmfest film festival
Jacob Lees Johnson’s sci-fi horror I See The Demon was the gigantic winner at the UK’s Grimmfest festival in Manchester, which ran October 9-12. [...]
Singapore film festival to open with Shu Qi’s ‘Girl’, honours for Deepa Mehta, Youn Yuh-jung
Girl, the directorial debut of acclaimed Taiwanese actress Shu Qi, is set to open the 36th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), which [...]
Alex Walton, Amanda Nevill and Johnny Depp among speakers at third Saudi Film Confex
The Saudi Film Confex has kicked off its third edition this week with a line-up of international speakers as well as local and international exhi [...]
Saudi industry mulls how to get classic banks to provide finance for film productions
The challenge facing filmmakers in securing finance from Saudi banks was a key talking point of a Saudi Film Confex panel this week on investmen [...]
European Film Market selects Morocco as first African nation for country in focus programme
Morocco will be the first African nation to be a Country In Focus at Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM), at the market’s 2026 edition.
Started [...]
Farnoosh Samadi’s Toronto title ‘Between Dreams And Hope’ scores US sale
EXCLUSIVE: Italian sales outfit True Colours has sold Farnoosh Samadi’s Toronto selection Between Dreams And Hope to US distributor Indiecan.
Ir [...]