ChicagoScreens.org, the new website from the Chicago Alliance of Film Festivals, consolidates information for attendees and fosters collaboration between local fests.

Why I go to film festivals: Beyond buzz and applause, there’s treasure. From Sundance to Toronto, a veteran film critic illuminates the festival experience and what keeps him coming back.

Fall Film Festivals Struggle to Regain Their Mojo as Awards Season Launching Pads. Oscars ... The 2021 winner, for the first time ever, was a Sundance movie, “CODA.” ...

In 2021, “CODA” premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the audience and jury awards; it started streaming on Apple TV+ in mid-August, two weeks before the festivals.

Movie distributors headed to this year’s fall film festivals hoping to buy select star-studded indie films must be prepared to agree to new contract terms from SAG-AFTRA, the union’s chief ...

When “Joker: Folie à Deux” premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, the audience erupted into a standing ovation that lasted 11 minutes, according to Variety. The Hollywood ...

Following a buzzy world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, HBO Films has acquired the U.S. rights to the docudrama “Reality,” starring Sydney Sweeney. In the film, directed by Tina Satter ...

No one could accuse Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente of coasting. Since joining the organization from the Toronto International Film Festival in 2021 — smack in the middle of the COVID-19 ...

With the fall film festivals looming, SAG-AFTRA on Thursday assured its members who are part of projects that received interim agreements from the guild that it’s OK for them to support and ...

Antiwar film or propaganda? ‘Russians at War’ draws protests at festivals. Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister, expressed “grave concerns” about the documentary screened by ...

In 2024, the Sundance Film Festival remains one of the top festivals for up-and-coming filmmakers to showcase their work and last year it drew 86,824 people to Utah.

Learners participating in this year’s National Drama and Film Festivals are being treated to unique experiences and interactions with experts in art spaces.. In addition to free screenings of ...