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While innovations in technology have made it easier than ever to make a movie, it has become harder than ever to receive significant financial backing. Doubly hard when one is a director of an underrepresented background.

Black Americans have been a part of the film industry since the beginning, over a century ago, but one could argue that there were not any Black film directors given enough of a platform to become a household name until the 1990s. Though a diverse set of directors were able to breakthrough from that time through the aughts, the shift

Utah tech executive Carine Strom Clark was recognized for her technology leadership at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival Women’s Leadership Celebration on January 22 at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center.

Clark was among nine women leaders honored for their impact in a variety of fields: from business and public service to philanthropy and filmmaking.

“We’re proud to recognize local, national and global leaders who are doing incredible work in their respective fields,” said Zions Bank president and CEO Scott Anderson, who presented the awards. “What makes this group of honorees remarkable is that they’re using their

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) hosted its annual InFocus: Dutch Cinema program with presenting partner Dutch Culture USA (Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York). The October event began with a limited-seating screening of InFocus: Dutch Cinema, a collection of new work from Dutch short film directors curated in partnership with SEE NL.

The program is representative of new voices, genres and themes in filmmaking coming out of the Netherlands. It includes stories of fighting for autonomy, confronting loss, finding strength and comfort, fighting darkness, choosing our own path, and healing trauma.

Also in October, NewFilmmakers

The 2024 Winter Season of DOC NYC PRO is geared towards filmmakers and anyone interested in learning about the documentary industry. The new season focuses on unique areas of the filmmaking process, featuring invaluable insight from independent filmmakers, experts from the independent doc community and professionals with aligned expertise. Covering topics like marketing budgets, mental health, the current doc market and animation/graphics in documentary films, the season will conclude with advice on facing creative blocks.

Every movie is a documentary of its making. Or a documentary of what the makers want you to believe about that making, about where it was made. Make enough movies in the same place over time and you get a history, a collection of narratives linked by location. What does that history say about that place? These are lofty thoughts, perhaps they should be brought to earth. Why is Burt Reynolds, with trademark mustache, dressed as a nun and chasing a dude through one of Boston’s oldest public parks?

Reynolds is doing this in the 1972 film Fuzz, one of more

The history and impact Black filmmakers had on early moviemaking is explored in a new exhibit, “Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971,” at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

The exhibit, which opens Sunday and runs through June, takes visitors through the early days of Black cinema through the years following the civil rights movement.

Created and organized by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the exhibit features more than 200 objects, including film excerpts, photographs, costumes, props, posters and interactive elements, juxtaposed with contemporary art from Theaster Gates, Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons and Kara Walker.