Nava Mau Launches Level Ground Fellowship For Emerging Filmmakers (EXCLUSIVE)

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated Baby Reindeer breakout Nava Mau has teamed with Level Ground, producer and independent distributor ...
Fast Company

This startup wants to be Shopify for indie filmmakers

A new startup is leaning on the power of recommendations to spread the word about indie films. Olyn offers a direct-to-consumer platform for film and video distribution, enabling filmmakers to retain ...
Fast Company

5 ways that filmmakers are using AI to create a new aesthetic

Type text into AI image and video generators, and you’ll often see outputs of unusual, sometimes creepy, pictures. In a way, this is a feature, not a bug, of generative AI. And artists are wielding ...
Decrypt

Google Maps Lets Filmmakers Scout Movie Scenes Using AI and Street View Data

Google unveiled a new AI tool in Maps that lets filmmakers preview scenes in real-world locations ahead (or instead) of ...
Variety

Filmmakers Speak About Making Documentaries During the Rise of Populism, and the Dangers of Making Films Critical of Repressive Regimes

Documentary filmmakers and industry leaders gathered at this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam to discuss “independence and resistance in times of repressive populism” at the ...
Hartford Courant

Legendary filmmakers inspiring next generation at ‘Black Voices and Visionaries in Cinema’ seminar

Two major independent filmmakers, Charles Burnett and Shaka King, visit Wesleyan University Nov. 8-9 to take part in the school’s “Black Voices and Visionaries in Cinema” seminar. Burnett’s newly ...
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'The AI Doc' filmmakers on what you need to know about AI

When the filmmakers behind "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist," set out to investigate the dawn of the age of artificial intelligence, they couldn't predict what the next two-and-a-half ...
IndieWire

‘How Filmmakers Are – and Aren’t – Using AI’ Panel Will Answer Key Questions at Future of Filmmaking Summit

Our panel will look beyond the money, the controversy, and the hype to discuss the ideas and products most likely to be meaningful for you. Join us in Los Angeles on November 2. That’s the question ...
The Hollywood Reporter

CAPE and TAAF Launch Rising Filmmakers Finishing Fund for Asian and Pacific Islander Directors

It will provide two Asian American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander filmmakers with post-production grants of $50,000 each for their second to fifth feature films. By Chris Gardner Two nonprofits ...
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Filmmakers vowed to boycott Israeli film groups. What does that mean?

More than 4,000 film workers have signed on to a pledge this month vowing not to work with Israeli film organizations that they say are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian ...
TheWrap

Nepali Filmmakers Challenge ‘Anjila’ International Feature Oscar Entry, Director Calls It ‘Personal’ Attack

A group of Nepali filmmakers has reportedly filed a formal complaint with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that challenges the country’s submission of “Anjila” for the international ...