By Stephanie Ornelas  “If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory as well.” This is one message director Nina Menkes wanted to send

By Vanessa Zimmer Writer-director Riley Stearns is known for creating a world where everyone speaks in a deadpan cadence. And nowhere is that played to

By Bailey Pennick A simple knock on a door starts it all. While this is a semi-accurate way to describe the beginning of the intimate

by Katie Small Motherhood and the immigrant experience are big themes in many of this year’s Festival selections, and Nanny delivers both. In the pre-recorded

By Bailey Pennick Sometimes you just need to rip the Band-Aid off. Yes, it hurts like hell and, yes, it’s still going to leave that

By Katie Small To say viewers were in shock after the Midnight premiere of Speak No Evil might just be an understatement. Despite the late

By Stephanie Ornelas When Korean journalist K.W. Lee first wrote to Chol Soo Lee, who was on death row at a California prison, he had

By Vanessa Zimmer March of time be damned, these Florida women who call themselves the “Calendar Girls” are going to put on their makeup, slip

By Katie Small From the Festival that brought you some of the most iconic and deeply disturbing horror flicks of the last several decades —

By Stephanie Ornelas The world of bodybuilding has long been known for its pursuit of the perfect, sculpted body. Men and women go to extreme

by Katie Small Remaining flexible served Chloe Okuno well while making her first feature, Watcher. The director’s debut psychological thriller was six years in the

By Stephanie Ornelas Meagan Good is breaking barriers. The actress joined Morgan Debaun, CEO of Blavity Inc. (Creators of Shadow & Act), in a candid

By Vanessa Zimmer Philippines-based writer-director Martika Ramirez Escobar sees life as one big, long movie that we’re revising, revising, and revising again, until it is