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1 week ago | screenanarchy.com | Andrew Mack

Today, the fine folks over at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival announced the programme for this year's festival, running from July 4th through 12th. The festival is bringing some of the best of the festival circuit to the lakeside desination, featuring a bounty of Swiss Premieres. New films from Ari Aster, Bruno Cattet & Hélène Forzani, Julia Ducournau, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa are in the mix.

1 week ago | screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg

There is a lot to learn about the film industry, and not all of it is taught at films schools. Festivals like Palm Springs Shortfest fill the gap, especially from the business side, with knowledge essential to all emerging filmmakers, on how ot navigate this complicated art form on both the creative and business side. The ShortFest Forum has some exicted panels and discussions to those attending, or who are thinking about attending. Details are below and on the festival website.

1 week ago | screenanarchy.com | Andrew Mack

Three brothers, Salvador, Oliver and Benjamin, have been forced to fend for themselves, holed up in a stone house in the middle of the forest. Their family fled there after a catastrophic event wiped out large swaths of the population. When we join the brothers, they’ve been left to look after each other, all the while waiting for their parents to return. Oh, there is also something locked up in the basement that they’re looking after as well.

1 week ago | screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg

Biopics usually follow one of two structures: the majority giving a general, sweeping account of a person's life, with various scenes focusing on 'important' events that would likely already be known by the audience; these are stories or breadth, not depth, and usually don't really help us understand the biopic's subject since it ends up being a rather superficial overview.

1 week ago | screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg

"Just ignore them and they'll leave you alone;" "They're just insecure;" "Stand up for yourself and they'll go away:" Society has a lot of advice for how to deal with bullying, most of which relies on the victim of the bullying to do something, rather than punishing those who either perpetrate the physical and/or psychological violence, or those who stand by without intervening.