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The Oscar-qualifying festival has closed international submissions for its 43rd edition, attracting thousands of fiction, documentary, animation and experimental shorts from around the world.

Students in FSU’s College of Motion Picture Arts review footage during a film production. FSUFilm remains the nation’s No. 4 public film school and climbed to No. 13 overall in The Hollywood Reporter’s annual ranking of the nation’s best film schools.

South Africa’s film and television industry says negotiations with the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) have reached a deadlock after months of unsuccessful engagements, accusing the department of failing to address a crisis that threatens thousands of jobs and the future of the country’s production sector.

A compact camera made in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, drew one of the biggest crowds at the recent Cine Gear Expo LA on the Universal Studios back lot.

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With smartphones and advanced digital cameras, it’s absurdly easy these days to just point and click and capture a perfectly sharp, vibrant image. However, that simplicity means that standing out as a photographer is now more difficult than in the past, when the barrier to entry was lower. Good composition may still remain a powerful…

One of the most concerning developments in 2026 for cinephiles is the growing embrace of generative artificial intelligence in the filmmaking process from prominent filmmakers, actors and studios. Beyond mere verbal endorsement, many have entered into multi-million dollar partnerships with AI companies.

Today, Governor JB Pritzker, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), and Illinois film industry leaders announced that film production expenditures in Illinois reached a record-breaking high of $703 million in 2025, supporting an estimated 18,000 in industry hires. This represents a 25 percent increase in film expenditures since before the pandemic in…

Paper tiger … Jack O’Connell in Ink by Danny Boyle, the opening film of this year’s Venice film festival. Photograph: StudiocanalPaper tiger … Jack O’Connell in Ink by Danny Boyle, the opening film of this year’s Venice film festival. Photograph: Studiocanal

Alfred Hitchcock famously said, “To make a great film you need three things — the script, the script and the script.”