Filmmaker Magazine

Filmmaker is a magazine released every three months that focuses on topics connected to independent cinema. It was established in 1992 by Karol Martesko-Fenster, Scott Macaulay, and Holly Willis. Currently, the magazine is published by the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), an organization that supports the independent film industry.

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Our 16 Most Anticipated Films of the 2025 Tribeca Festival

2 days ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Natalia Keogan

Back to selection by Natalia Keogan in Festivals & Events on Jun 4, 2025 Alex Mallis, Alex Ross Perry, Paula González-Nasser, Penny Lane, Rob Petit, Takashi Miike, Travis Wood, Tribeca Festival 2025, Tribeca Film Festival 2025, Walter Thompson-Hernández Although the heat has yet to properly arrive, the kickoff of the annual Tribeca Festival, now ensconced in its post-Cannes spot on the calendar, signals the unofficial start to the summer season among the New York City cinema-going sect....
“‘History’ with a Capital ‘H'”: Mascha Schilinski on Cannes 2025 Award-Winner

4 days ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Nicolas Rapold

Click here to read our spring 2025 issue, featuring Caught by the Tides' Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao, our annual spotlight on locations and more...
Cannes 2025: Awards; Young Mothers; Sentimental Value; Resurrection

1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Blake Williams

by Blake Williams in Festivals & Events on May 26, 2025 Bi Gan, Cannes Film Festival 2025, Dardenne Brothers, jean-pierre dardenne, Joachim Trier, luc dardenne, Resurrection, Sentimental Value, Young Mothers The cinema world was quick to juxtapose an image from the climax of this year’s award ceremony—where Iranian director Jafar Panahi took home the Palme d’Or for his generously-received It Was Just an Accident—alongside one in which this year’s jury president Juliette Binoche protested...
Cannes 2025: Entroncamento, The Mastermind

1 week ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Vadim Rizov

Back to selection by Vadim Rizov in Festivals & Events on May 25, 2025 Cannes 2025, Entroncamento, Kelly Reichardt, Pedro Cabeleira, The Mastermind In a piece about the documentaries at this year’s Cannes, Slate’s Sam Adams noted the existence of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk but declined to name the section it was in, referring to it only as “a low-profile sidebar devoted to independent productions.” That would be ACID, which—with the possible exception of the CINEF section that shows...
Cannes 2025: Highest 2 Lowest, Die My Love, The Love That Remains

2 weeks ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Vadim Rizov

Denzel Washington (right) in Highest 2 Lowest by Vadim Rizov in Festivals & Events on May 23, 2025 Cannes 2025, Die My Love, Highest 2 Lowest, Hlynur Pálmason, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee, The Love That Remains Spike Lee’s maligned 2013 update of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 revenge picture, Oldboy, did little to inspire confidence in his latest reimagining of an Asian classic, this time relocating Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963) to DUMBO in Brooklyn.
Cannes 2025: It Was Just an Accident, The Secret Agent

2 weeks ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Vadim Rizov

Back to selection Vahid Mobasseri, Majid Panahi and Hadis Pakbaten in A Simple Accident by Vadim Rizov in Festivals & Events on May 23, 2025 Cannes 2025, It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi, Kleber Mendonca Filho, The Secret Agent Sentenced in 2010 on spurious grounds by the Iranian government to six years in prison, a punishment that came with a 20-year ban on making movies, Jafar Panahi immediately set about violating the latter.
“Not Everything Could Have Been IMAX”: DP Andrew Droz Palermo on

2 weeks ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Matt Mulcahey

Click here to read our spring 2025 issue, featuring Caught by the Tides' Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao, our annual spotlight on locations and more... Back to selection Andrew Droz Palermo (left) on the set of Thunderbolts* by Matt Mulcahey in Cinematographers, Columns, Interviews on May 22, 2025 Andrew Droz Palermo, Thunderbolts* In the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe entry Thunderbolts*, a reluctant squad of antiheroes team up to save New York City.
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2 weeks ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Isaac Feldberg

Back to selection by Isaac Feldberg in Filmmaking, Production on May 20, 2025 Anne Émond, Cannes Film Festival 2025, Metafilms, Peak Everything, Producer, Producing, Sylvain Corbeil Since founding Metafilms over two decades ago, Montreal-based producer Sylvain Corbeil has become a prolific and respected pillar of Quebec’s independent film scene, collaborating with filmmakers whose bold and idiosyncratic visions have served to bolster the place of modern Canadian cinema on a world stage....
“We’re All Fighting to Tell Our Stories”: Daniel Tantalean’s Cannes Producer Diary #2

2 weeks ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Scott Macaulay

Back to selection The view from Église Notre-Dame by Scott Macaulay in Festivals & Events on May 20, 2025 Cannes Film Festival 2025, Daniel Tantalean, The Gotham Film and Media Institute In the Summers producer Daniel Tantalean is a 2025 Gotham Cannes Producer Network Fellow and is blogging about his experience at the festival here at Filmmaker. Like his first post, this second entry takes the form of a letter written home to his fiance.
Cannes 2025: The Phoenician Scheme, Nouvelle Vague

2 weeks ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Vadim Rizov

Back to selection Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera and Mia Threapleton in The Phoenician Scheme by Vadim Rizov in Festivals & Events on May 18, 2025 Though Wes Anderson’s last consensus-acclaimed feature was 2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, his subsequent, progressively more divisive films have been profitable enough to emerge at a regular clip.