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Karlovy Vary announce guest & Kurdish films

  The Karlovy Vary Film Festival has announced that Palme d’Or winning director Jerry Schatzberg will attend the 48th edition of the Festival, which runs from June 28 – July 6, to screen three of…

animago AWARD 2013 call for entries

DIGITAL PRODUCTION, the German trade magazine for digital media productions and visualisation, is calling for submissions to the 17th animago project at www.animago.com for the 2013 contest. The registration deadline for submissions is June 30,…

Michael Winterbottom retrospective at OIFF 2013

At the presentation of the 4th Odessa International Film Festival at Cannes Film Festival, OIFF president Victoria Tigipko announced that leading British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom will attend the festival to present a retrospective of his…

Toronto announce first film for 2013

Toronto International Film Festival, one of the world’s major festivals, has announced the first official selection for its 2013 edition in September with the world premiere of Godfrey Reggio’s Visitors. Visitors is the fourth feature-length…

Weinstein and Lexus show Life is Amazing at Cannes

Harvey Weinstein paid tribute to the importance of filmmaking through his unprecedented collaboration with Lexus to create the ‘Life is Amazing’ Short Film series. Over three separate events held on Sunday, Lexus and The Weinstein…

Paul Thomas Anderson: Perfecting The Look

The writer-director explains why he will stop at nothing to get the right aesthetic, even if it means shooting in 65mm. …

Thomas Vinterberg: The Story Matters

The Danish director explains why he’s returning to the controversial subject matter of 1998’s Festen,…

Ben Wheatley Talks Sightseers

As the director of Down Terrace, Kill List and Sightseers, Ben Wheatley is carving out…

Not Just a Pretty Face: Nadia Stacey talks Make-Up.

Having served as make-up artist and designer on big and small screen projects as diverse as Green Zone, Tyrannosaur and Sightseers, Nadia Stacey writes exclusively about why her role is essential to creating great characters.…

Mike Elizalde – Pushing Clay

Oscar-nominated make-up artist and creature designer Mike Elizalde explains why he relishes the challenge of…

Women Behind the Camera: DoPs Kate Reid & Eve Hazelton

Directors of photography Eve Hazelton (The Underwater Realm) and Kate Reid (Blooded, Scrubber) discuss their experiences of working across a range of features and camera platforms, and why gender does not matter when you get behind the camera…

Sightseers’ Alice Lowe On Writing Strong Female Characters

For our Women in Film issue, Sightseers co-writer and star Alice Lowe discusses the importance of creating strong female characters.…

Dana Glauberman – All the Pieces Matter

Over a career spanning two decades, Dana Glauberman has worked on films as diverse as The Birdcage and Juno to Pirates of the Caribbean and, most recently, Young Adult. Here she exclusively writes about the joy she finds in fitting the pieces of a film…

Part of the Process – Colin Goudie on cutting for the big and small screens.

London-born film and television editor Colin Goudie has just finished working on the independent British…