Festival

Oct 8, 2020 — Recognized by the Museum of Modern Art as a “rarity among the young generation of Filipino filmmakers for her muted, serene aesthetic,” Isabel Sandoval has premiered her films at major festivals like Venice, Locarno, London, and Busan. Cahiers du cinéma...

May 6, 2020 — Kleber Mendonça Filho began his career as a film critic and journalist, writing for newspapers and magazines, as well as for his own site, CinemaScópio.As a director, he experimented with fiction, documentary, and video clips in the 1990s. He migrated...

Oct 7, 2019 — Critics respond to the New York Film Festival’s selection of new moving image art.

Aug 12, 2019 — Carlos Reygadas is a Mexican film director, writer, and producer. He studied law in Mexico City and later, in London, specialized in armed conflict law and the use of force. After quitting the Mexican foreign service he made four short...

Jun 19, 2019 — Jeremy Workman is a documentary filmmaker and award-winning editor of movie trailers, specifically for art-house, documentary, and foreign films. His latest documentary, The World Before Your Feet, was released to critical acclaim last November and played in movie theaters into...

Mar 8, 2019 — San Diego–based filmmaker Lev Kalman was born in 1982 and has been making films with Whitney Horn since 2003, when they were undergraduates in New York City. Their distinctive style blends lo-fi 16 mm photography, dreamy electronic music, philosophic musings,...

Jul 18, 2018 — Alan Rudolph is a pioneer in the American independent film movement. He has directed nineteen narrative features and one feature-length documentary. His films have been presented in major international festivals for forty years and are noted for their fluid style,...

Sep 7, 2017 — Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein are New York City–based filmmakers best known for their award-winning short films, including The Strange Ones, Jonathan’s Chest, Social Butterfly, and Cigarette Candy, which have screened at hundreds of film festivals worldwide, such as Sundance,...

Dec 8, 2015 — The Sundance Film Festival’s 2016 documentary premieres lineup, announced yesterday, will feature Richard Linklater—dream is destiny, the directorial debut of Louis Black.

Jan 22, 2009 — Last fall the Criterion Collection and Janus Films joined forces to acquire a first-run film for theatrical distribution—a rare move for two companies best known for handling the classics of cinema history. Revanche, both an existential thriller and a quiet,...