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Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], September 25 (ANI): The 12th International Film Festival of Shimla (IFFS) opened at the historic Gaiety Heritage Cultural Complex on Friday, bringing together 96 films from 32 countries and 15 Indian states. The three-day festival features feature films, short films, documentaries, animation, music videos and AI-generated films. Filmmakers from countries including…

Fifteen UK-based writers, directors and producers have been selected for BFI NETWORK@LFF 2026, the British Film Institute’s flagship development programme for early-career filmmakers moving towards their first feature.

The indie film sector is scratching its head this week over what a combined Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) will meaningfully offer it when the $111bn merger closes, which now looks inevitable after Paramount and a dozen US states settled their antitrust case.

A first-time director stares at a spreadsheet at midnight, coffee gone cold, trying to figure out how a $180,000 dream fits into an $11,000 reality. It’s a scene familiar to almost anyone who has tried to make a movie outside the studio system. The camera package, the location fees, the sound mixer who actually knows…

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The Leeds Cinema Crawl is a unique experience, aiming to bring like-minded film buffs together, for a full day of cinematic fun. 

Back in 1976, the year the Kingdome had its grand opening and downtown Seattle’s Freeway Park made its July 4 debut to coincide with the national bicentennial celebration, Seattle became home to another gem: a film festival where local moviegoers, including kids and families, could discover films largely produced outside the major Hollywood studio system.

The Asian Film Awards Academy has selected 16 emerging filmmakers from around 450 applicants for its 2026 International Film Camp, with eight projects set to receive HK$300,000 each to produce new short films.

If you’re a Millennial, it’s pretty damning to learn that Richard Kelly’s sci-fi cult-classic and feature debut, “Donnie Darko,” has turned 25 this year. Have we really been watching Jake Gyllenhaal for more than two and a half decades now while he still doesn’t look a day older than 32? For better or worse, the…