Filmmaker Magazine

Returning to cut through award season noise is @tylercoates’s Considerations newsletter, which will now decode all things Emmys. Read and subscribe below to stay in the loop: filmmaker.substack.com/p/ready-or-not…

The final piece from our spring issue to roll out on Substack is @erickohn’s interview with @BootsRiley and his collaborators on the making of ‘I Love Boosters,’ which hits theaters via @neonrated on Friday. filmmaker.substack.com/p/personal-eff…

@celizotte @sapphicspielbrg @radujude @kevasyork An early Cannes highlight for @mike_hogan is @firstman_jordan’s ‘Club Kid,’ which he says “refreshes a familiar arc for Bushwick’s club scene.” The film also just sold to @A24 after an intense bidding war. filmmaker.substack.com/p/club-kid-bre…

@celizotte @sapphicspielbrg @radujude Fresh off a midnight Cannes screening of ‘The Fast and The Furuous’ for its 25th anniversary, @kevasyork revs up some thoughts on the first installment in the (yes, still ongoing) franchise—and even reports on Vin Diesel’s custom red carpet fit. filmmaker.substack.com/p/cannes-premi…

Our Cannes coverage kicked off in earnest with @LeonardoGoi’s excellent Q&A with ‘La Perra’ writer/director Dominga Sotomayor. She divulges the process of adapting Pilar Quintana’s 2017 novel, casting the titular canine, and much more. filmmaker.substack.com/p/cannes-inter…

For @FilmmakerMag, I spoke about Dominga Sotomayor about her @Quinzaine-premiering LA PERRA: working with dogs, venturing into non-autobiographical terrain, and the thrills of making a film "for the cinema" after her 2025 Netflix production SWIM TO ME: filmmakermagazine.com/133766-intervi…

Tony Leung Chiu-wai on Silent Friend, Cyclo, The Longest Nite and more for Filmmaker @12specialfilms @FilmmakerMag open.substack.com/pub/filmmaker/…

Sho Miyake chats with @alexL_E_I about 'Two Seasons, Two Strangers,' which was recently programmed at @NDNF before opening for a limited run @Metrograph. The downtown NYC theater screens the film again at 3:45 this afternoon. filmmaker.substack.com/p/a-growing-se…

“In a sense, the movie is a one-hour-and-59-minute-long commercial,” writes @gertsofficial. “But as commercials sometimes do, ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ made me cry. Read her personal missive from an opening weekend screening at Regal Times Square. filmmaker.substack.com/p/work-wont-lo…

I wrote about The Devil Wears Prada 2 for @FilmmakerMag and why it made me cry

Reading this fun @sapphicspielbrg piece for @FilmmakerMag as I head to SIE Denver for another Q&A I’m thinking a lot about this model that’s become normal for filmmakers but has still not been totally integrated into the architecture of film going. (1/5) filmmakermagazine.com/103414-should-…

For our recent spring issue, @scottmeslow spoke with Minnesota-based documentary filmmaker @joualeegrande amid the unprecedented tumult of Operation Metro Surge. filmmaker.substack.com/p/minnesota-fi…

Damian McCarthy refers to his movies as "campfire tales." I'd call them tightly wound traps that he springs on the audience. That requires a disciplined approach, as he explains for @FilmmakerMag:

"I guess there is something in there, that the wicked are punished in the films," Damian McCarthy tells @RifewithKatie about his filmography including Hokum, which releases tomorrow via @neonrated. "That’s probably from growing up in Catholic Ireland." filmmakermagazine.com/133697-intervi…

On a luminous morning in early September 2025, I crossed the Lido to speak with Lucrecia Martel about her "first" nonfiction film, LANDMARKS. Our chat, for @FilmmakerMag, filled me with unspeakable joy. I hope you'll feel some of it, too: filmmakermagazine.com/132059-i-neede…

And Natalia Keogan, attending @lafestivalofmov from NYC, posits that more film festivals should strive for experimentation and all of the “perfectly imperfect” programming that emerge as a result. filmmakermagazine.com/133693-lafm-di…

Today we publish two dispatches from @lafestivalofmov 2026. First up is Caleb Hammond, an LA resident who thinks the city could become “the movie-watching capital of the world” thanks to @micahgottlieb and Sarah Winshall’s festival. filmmakermagazine.com/133685-los-ang…

With One Spoon of Chocolate releasing on May 1, @jlalibs chats with the iconic music and movie-maker @RZA about his fourth directorial effort. filmmaker.substack.com/p/rza-doles-ou…

We're proud to premiere "Afterimage," a short film by Andrew Thomas and Pia Rios made in collaboration with @UnionDocs. Keeping on theme with Natalia Keogan's Ridgewood, Queens cinema scene report, the short centers on the now defunct Ridgewood Theater. filmmakermagazine.com/133669-short-f…