Does a win by any other name still feel as sweet? Following a Best Actress win at the Critics Choice Awards last week, Hamnet actor Jessie Buckley scored another at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.  Co-written and directed by Chloé Zhao based on Maggie O’Farrell’s book, Hamnet is a…

It's one win after another for writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson. At the Golden Globes on Sunday night, Anderson took home awards for Best Screenplay and Best Director after also taking both categories at the Critics Choice Awards last weekend.  In his speech for Best Director, Anderson…

The price of freedom is steep, but Russian award-winning filmmaker Aleksander Molochnikov wants to get you inspired by showcasing one woman who bravely paid the price. Molochnikov's Extremist, backed by Ben Stiller and John Lesher, is a resonant anti-war short that shows what happens when activism…

Trying to figure out who you are can be a complex process. It gets even more complicated when identity politics prevents you from fully assimilating into the culture you were born into. It's a frustration that Japanese Brazilian filmmaker André Saito knows all too well, despite being a…

In Africa, Albinism affects 1 in 5,000 to 15,000 people according to UNICEF researchers. In Senegal alone, an estimated 10,000 people live with the condition, which results in reduced amounts of melanin pigment in the skin, eyes, and hair and can contribute to harm not only from exposure to the sun…

The power of women united should not be ignored and Belén writer-director and star Dolores Fonzi will make sure you know that. Belén, based on the book Somos Belén (We Are Belén) by Ana Correa, is a compelling true story that follows the contentious case of a young Argentinian woman (Camila Plaate)…

Creating the perfect fairytale is no easy feat, but the Montreal-based animators Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski are used to a challenge. Five years in the making is the expertly and beautifully crafted The Girl Who Cried Pearls. Narrated by Colm Feore and James Hyndman in the English and French…

Will it be a sophomore slump or comeback of the year for comedian and returning Golden Globes hostess Nikki Glaser? When talking to Deadline at the Golden Globes red carpet preview event on Thursday, Glaser is certainly hoping for the latter.  Admitting that she was “too prepared to fail,&#8221…

Perhaps it's true that the way of water has no beginning and no end – at least this is the case for the record-breaking French swimmer Alfred Nakache. Florence Miailhe's latest short film Butterfly (also known by its French title Papillon), produced by Ron Dyens, showcases the real-life story of…

Contrary to popular belief, the seaweed isn't always greener in somebody else's lake. In the case of Ali Cook's Oscar-shortlisted short film The Pearl Comb, the county of Cornwall is flourishing in the midst of sickness at a dark cost. Set in 1893, the tale follows a fisherman's wife (Beatie Edney)…

In the game of war, there are no winners, no losers, only casualties. Both unsettling and tender is Franz Böhm's BAFTA-winning short film Rock, Paper, Scissors, which follows the true story of Ivan (Oleksandr Rudynskyi) as he helps his father (Sergey Kalantay) run a makeshift hospital near the…

Meyer Levinson-Blount is already having an impactful new year. The 24-year-old New York native, now a decade-long resident of Israel, has finished up film school at Tel Aviv University, created his first short film, won a silver medal for narrative film at the competitive Student Academy Awards for…