Premiering in the World Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2025, Luz is an ambitious exploration of reality, connection and redemption from director Flora Lau (Bends). Set across Chongqing, Hong Kong and Paris, the film follows Wei (Xiao Dong Guo), a reformed […]

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In André Is An Idiot, which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance 2025 (where it won the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary), first-time feature director Tony Benna crafts an unexpectedly profound portrait of his friend André Ricciardi, a maverick advertising […]

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Doppelgangers would hardly be considered fresh in cinema nowadays if one would look back at both indies and classics such as Duncan Jones’ Moon, Spike Jonze’s Adaptation, and even Chaplin’s The Great Dictator. But writer-directors Pasqual Gutierrez and Ben Mullinkosson […]

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Charlie Shackleton wasn’t a true crime documentary maker, but he figured it was time to visit the genre. Everyone else making documentaries seem to be dipping into the true crime well, in fact I wonder how many crimes there are […]

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After 10 days of long standing ovations and exciting new titles making their world premieres, the 79th annual Venice Film Festival concluded yesterday with its awards ceremony, which sets the stage for Awards Season. The Julianne Moore-headed jury awarded the […]

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With several boots on the ground this year, Hammer to Nail had each of our “attending” writers create a top 5 with everyone excited about so many selections for the first in person South by Southwest (SXSW) since 2019. After […]

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The 2021 New York Film Festival (or NYFF) is in its 59th iteration and runs September 24-October 10. There are 5 sections in the program: the Main Slate (with 32 features), Currents (15 features and 8 shorts programs), Spotlight (9 […]

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(The annual Film Festival Alliance gathering usually takes place in Midway, Ut. pre-Sundance. However, this year’s edition is all virtual and Melanie Addington, HtN contributor/Executive Director of the Oxford Film Festival is in attendance. She brings us this report…) As film festivals, filmmakers and […]

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An op-ed by Melanie Addington & Bears Rebecca Fonte “It’s very, very important we put the stories in the hands of those who own those stories,” Taika Waititi said at a past TIFF, but the clip has been used as […]

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A discussion about the future of film festivals was led by TIFF Doc Programmer Thom Powers with special guests Tine Fisher of CPH:Dox, one of the first festivals to go virtual in March; Tabitha Jackson of Sundance and Orwa Nyrbia of […]

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