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How Bassam Tariq upholds honesty and authenticity in ‘Mogul Mowgli’

November 18, 2021

Zed (Riz Ahmed) slips into the bathroom and sits on the toilet while his thumbs frantically run over his phone screen. His mindset is in his career as a rapper. He can see his dreams slowly coming true, one performance at a time...

‘Boiling Point:’ How Philip Barantini turned 12 years of restaurant experience into a feature film

November 18, 2021

Come take a look behind the scenes of one of the hottest restaurants in London on one of the busiest days of the year. Boiling Point takes the perspective of the staff and puts their personal and professional problems on display. If that’s not entici...

History of TV: 'One Tree Hill' doesn't want to be anything other than what it is

November 18, 2021

And that is teenage drama at its best. I was halfway through university when One Tree Hill premiered on The WB back in 2003. A romantic teen drama? Not too far off from where I was in life and I, too, hailed from a small town where you either fell in...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways: AFI Fest shorts embrace apocalyptic feel

November 17, 2021

AFI Fest (back in person) wrapped up last Sunday with Halle Berry’s directorial debut Bruised. The movie tackles a disgraced MMA fighter returning to the ring and Berry was quoted as saying the flick is the biggest challenge of her career. The fest a...

Robert Weide has come 'Unstuck in Time': The filmmaker discusses his new Kurt Vonnegut documentary

November 17, 2021

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time is a documentary that was decades in the making: thirty-nine years, to be exact. Or as filmmaker Robert Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth) would put it: “Two-thirds of my life.”

Infinity Fest 2021: From Concept to Distribution: How Immersive Content Is Changing the Entertainment Industry

November 16, 2021

With the rapid acceleration of technology, what does the future of entertainment look like? In a way, content creators have asked themselves this same question for a century, from the introduction of sound and color in film to the advent of computer-...

Director Gaurav Seth on the synergy behind indie sci-fi ‘Multiverse’

November 12, 2021

There’s a certain science to art, as writer-director Gaurav Seth knows well from his working relationship with Multiverse writer Doug Taylor; a synergy of all the moving parts to make a working whole. I’m not going to pretend to know a lot about scie...

The Spine of Night' will make adult animation fans want to whip out their VHS tapes

November 12, 2021

The animated action-fantasy The Spine of Night is a major throwback and will likely feel satisfying to those who came of age in the 1980s and loved the likes of Fire and Ice and Heavy Metal. The movie is many years in the making, with the detailed ro...

Write On with 'Ron's Gone Wrong' Co-Writer/Director Sarah Smith

November 12, 2021

The animated adventure comedy is the story of Barney, an awkward middle-schooler, and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device voiced by Zach Galifianakis. "When I start a film… I need to know the big idea,” Co-Writer/Director Sarah ...