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Making a movie is a harder task than ever. It’s even trickier when you’re not being bankrolled by a major studio that can afford to throw tens—if not hundreds—of millions of dollars at your passion project. As a result, it’s becoming trickier to see the stuff that young indie filmmakers toil away at for barely…

Locarno Pro closed its largest edition to date, passing 2,000 accreditations for the first time and reinforcing its position as an increasingly consequential meeting point for independent cinema.

Two days after I opened ScreenWeaver’s beta to everyone, a comment landed that summed up the whole industry’s confusion in one line: “cool storyboard tool, but where’s the actual movie.”

Why Is Niu Lai Trending? Low-Budget Chinese Animated Movie With No Publicity Turns Into A Box Office Hit (Photo: Film Poster)

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) —A six-day celebration of independent film, animation and emerging technology is returning to OMSI this summer as the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology runs Aug. 18-23, 2026, with tickets now on sale.

Happy Monday, everyone. Normally, I feel like Mondays kick off with a lot of horrible political news that sufficiently depresses me for the rest of the week. I’m sure today’s got that too, but unlike other weeks, today I began my Monday by looking at a bunch of hilarious, poorly drawn cows.

Producer Marco Perego came to Locarno’s industry strand with the sort of recent record that normally invites a victory lap.

Beneath the glossy-but-tired commercial surface of Pakistan’s film industry, something promising is happening. Updated 29 Dec, 2025

CA (The Hollywood Times) 8/15/26 –We are pleased to announce its media partnership with the 2026 Sherman Oaks Film Festival, taking place December 4–7, 2026. The partnership continues The Hollywood Times’ commitment to supporting independent filmmakers, emerging voices and the festivals that provide them with an important platform to share their work with audiences

In February 2025, while on the Oscars trail in support of his film The Brutalist, director Brady Corbet madeheadlines when he revealed on WTF With Marc Maron that he’d “made zero dollars” from his work on the film. While independent movies like The Brutalist aren’t known for being lucrative cash cows for their filmmakers, Corbet’s…