Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk’s The White House Effect is an intriguing all-archival trip back in time to the precise moment in US politics when we arguably could have turned the page on climate change. From 1988-1992, Yale grad and oil company founder George H.W. Bush was commander-in-chief; not only did Bush. Sr. improbably make vocal his belief that global warming (“The Greenhouse Effect”) was real, but promised to employ “the White House effect” to counter it. Which inclu...| Filmmaker Magazine
Benny Safdie’s mixed martial arts drama The Smashing Machine, currently in theaters from A24, is brutal and tender, and both in surprising ways. Working with blockbuster actor Dwayne Johnson, who…| Filmmaker Magazine
As I wrote in my capsule review for this year’s SXSW curtain raiser, Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud is a film that Craig Renaud, Brent’s brother (and my friend for the past dozen years, ever since I met the tight-knit siblings covering their now defunct Little Rock Film Festival) should never have had to make and instigated by an event no family should ever have to live through. And that puts Brent’s loved ones in the grieving company of untold numbers of f...| Filmmaker Magazine
Perhaps one of the strangest and most captivating docs of the year, Elizabeth Lo’s Mistress Dispeller centers on a middle-aged wife and husband, the latter of whom is having an affair that the former is desperate to end. Enter Wang Zhenxi, one of a growing number of China’s professional “mistress dispellers.” For a fee, Teacher Wang will orchestrate scenarios that allow her to get to know the man and his mistress in order to discern how she can best manipulate a breakup – one in whi...| Filmmaker Magazine
A half-hour into Connor Sen Warnick’s Characters Disappearing, left-wing revolutionary Mei (Yuka Murakami) hangs up a poster declaring “The East is Red.” Until that point, the film seems to take place in the strict past-tense, moving through the domestic spaces of Asian Americans in New York’s Chinatown in the early 1970s. But when Mei crosses the street, a woman moves through the frame in front of her in a mask and puffy jacket clearly out of our current decade—Mei, and her radical...| Filmmaker Magazine
With Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor premiering on Netflix today, we’re reposting our interview with Gandbhir out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. — Editor Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor, which premiered in the US Documentary section of this year’s Sundance, is likely one of the first feature docs primarily composed of police body camera footage. Sifting through footage with editor Viridiana Liberman (The Sentence), Gandbhir builds out a suspenseful and heartbr...| Filmmaker Magazine
Drawing heavily from internet aesthetics that feel at once contemporary and dated, In the Glow of Darkness is a sprawling, hand-made cyberpunk ensemble film following detectives, streamers, pop stars, struggling families, corporate conspiracies and a rave-dancing hitman. Eschewing direct references to our world’s online space, In the Glow of Darkness constructs a parallel reality of tech-run nightclubs, LAN party fraternities and a “meme-tripping” drug culture, where users get have thei...| Filmmaker Magazine
Indie director Nobuhiro Yamashita was not under the impression that he had much insight into the lives of high-school girls. For his first three features (Hazy Life (1999), No One’s Ark (2003), and Ramblers (also 2003)) he’d focused on what he knew best—“lazy men.” But Yamashita’s fifth feature, Linda Linda Linda (2005), would prove pivotal, expanding the horizons of his career, his cast and Japanese independent cinema itself. A gentle slice-of-life drama, Linda Linda Linda tells ...| Filmmaker Magazine
Harris Dickinson’s characters are demarcated by specific class consciousnesses: Coney Island’s Frankie in Beach Rats, who cruises for older men on a webcam site; a particular brand of selfishness and vulnerability as a model and influencer in Triangle of Sadness; most recently, a supremely confident intern who casts a domineering spell over a tech CEO in Babygirl. Urchin, the film Dickinson chose as his feature directorial debut vehicle (he’s directed shorts before, as early as 2013), s...| Filmmaker Magazine
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When it comes to email marketing, you should always welcome the opportunity to do something a little bit different. Changing it up is a great way to keep it fresh and to keep your leads interested. One of the best times to do this is during the holiday season. The following are five email templates that you can use to send out emails appropriate for the holiday season that will help boost your open rate and that will engage your audience through email. The post 5 Holiday Email Templates for S...| Stevens & Tate Marketing
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The story of cinema is often the story of unlikely beginnings. On today’s episode, we welcome Dale Sherman, an author who began his career chronicling the world of rock music before turning his attention to one of the most distinctive filmmakers of our time—Quentin Tarantino. Best known for his books on Kiss and Alice Cooper, ... Read more The post IFH 819: How Quentin Tarantino Changed Independent Film: A Conversation with Dale Sherman appeared first on Indie Film Hustle®.| Indie Film Hustle®
From 18 November 2025, Companies House will introduce compulsory identity verification for all individual directors of UK companies and persons with significant control (PSCs). This new process is part of a broader effort to make the Companies House register more secure, accurate, and trustworthy—and to help prevent fraud and misuse of company information. This articleContinue reading "New Requirements to Verify Your Identity With Companies House" The post New Requirements to Verify Your Id...| LegalVision UK
In the competitive world of real estate, standing out from the crowd is essential. While traditional marketing tactics like listing photos and open houses are still important, real estate lead generation is increasingly driven by the power of storytelling. By crafting compelling narratives around your listings, testimonials, and brand, you can engage potential clients on.... The post The Power of Storytelling in Real Estate Lead Generation appeared first on Stevens & Tate Marketing.| Stevens & Tate Marketing
By Miriam A. Laube Where the bee sucks, Neonicotinoid insecticides in a cowslip’s bell lie, in fields purple with lavender, yellow with rape, and on the sunflower’s upturned face; on land monotonous with cereals and grain, merrily, merrily, sour in the soil, sheathing the seed,...| TheatreWorks Silicon Valley | Queen Director’s Message
By Tim Bond "I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world… I felt...| TheatreWorks Silicon Valley | Queen Director’s Message
Jeffrey Lo, Artistic Producer of the New Works Festival brings you: 5 Questions with Vichet Chum “Liebling” playwright Vichet Chum Hi Vichet! How’s it going? Fantastic. So excited to jump in. Are you ready for your 5 questions? Hit me. Awesome. Let’s jump in. Jumping…...| TheatreWorks Silicon Valley | Queen Director’s Message
Jeffrey Lo, Artistic Producer of the New Works Festival brings you: 5 Questions with Molly Bell Molly Bell Hi Molly! How are you doing? I’m doing great! Excited to share my work over the next couple of weeks with the Theatreworks Silicon Valley crowd! Alright,...| TheatreWorks Silicon Valley | Queen Director’s Message
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