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Innovation in cameras, lenses, lighting, batteries, and more pressed onward in 2024, despite production doldrums and pain points across the industry. These advances arrive at a time when all the world ...

Two new documentaries — The Alabama Solution from Andrew Jarecki and The Stringer from Bao Nguyen – have been added to the Premieres category of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the Sundance Institute ...

Josh Welsh, Film Independent’s President, died December 31, 2024 at home following a five-year battle with colon cancer. He was 62. Welsh began his association with the non-profit nearly 30 years ago, ...

Tiffany Boone’s breakout role was Jerrika Little on the series The Chi. Little Fires Everywhere, The Midnight Sky, Nine Perfect Strangers, and Hunters followed. Now she voices Sarabi in Disney’s ...

Tiffany Boone’s breakout role was Jerrika Little on the series The Chi. Little Fires Everywhere, The Midnight Sky, Nine Perfect Strangers, and Hunters followed. Now she voices Sarabi in Disney’s ...

Hugh Gibson, Jacques Rivette, John Gianvito, Johng Sung-il, La Flor, Mar del Plata Film Festival, Mariano Llinás, Night and Fog in Zona, Short Stay, Ted Fendt, The Stairs, Wake (Subic), Wang Bing ...

Remembering her filmmaker father Charles B. Pierce, Dallas designer Amanda Squitiero first mentions the place he called home. “Arkansas claims him and he claimed Arkansas,” she says, having recently ...

Netflix’s ever-shifting catalog is subject to sudden deletions and additions, the latter skewed far more to recent fare than a balanced sampling of all film history. Still, careful mining reveals a ...

Over at the website of the Bob Moog Foundation, electronic music historian Thom Holmes has an interesting post about some lesser-known cinematic uses of the Moog, the pioneering analog synthesizer ...

Like everyone, on Wednesday I read Glenn Greenwald’s Guardian report, “NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily.” I was outraged, but I can’t say I was shocked. I’ve known ...

David Leitner has over sixty director, DP, and producer credits in documentaries and dramas including eight Sundance Film Festival premieres. His work has been broadcast and seen theatrically in the U ...