"We should not be reducing theatrical windows. We should be expanding them," Sean Baker exclaimed this evening during a career Q&A session at the Red Sea Film Festival.  The Anora filmmaker, who is head of this year's competition jury at Red Sea, was in conversation with Fionnuala Halligan…

Sean Baker stepped into Deadline's Red Sea Studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday where he revealed that he had recently completed a new, Malaysia-set short film with Michelle Yeoh for fashion brand Self-Portrait.  The film, which is set to premiere next year and is written, edited and…

Sean Baker has been unveiled as the jury president for the upcoming fifth edition of Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival, running from December 4 to 13. The jury president stint comes just eight months after Baker's last film Anora swept the board at the 97th Academy Awards, winning Best…

It has been a whirlwind four months for Taiwanese American director Shih-Ching Tsou, whose debut feature Left-Handed Girl makes its North American premiere at TIFF this weekend. The emotional family drama revolves around a single mother and her two daughters who are coming to terms with city…

Netflix has set a Nov. 14 theatrical release for their Cannes pick-up Left-Handed Girl from filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou. The movie, which is co-written by multi-Oscar winner Sean Baker and Tsou and produced by the Anora filmmaker, will stream on Nov. 28. We told you first that the streamer took…

In the short film drama Indigo Blue, written and directed by Albert Pritchard, low-income parents (played by Jayme Lawson and Charles Brice) struggle to secure affordable healthcare for their sick daughter. Faced with few options to acquire the money they need, the father risks everything to get the…

When Taiwanese-American director Shih-Ching Tsou was growing up in Taiwan, her left-handedness was frowned upon, leading her to be "corrected" or trained to use her right hand. This childhood experience served as the starting point for her directorial debut Left-Handed Girl, which premiered…

What do you do after a record-setting haul of four individual Oscars including Best Picture for Anora? For Sean Baker, it is returning to his filmmaking roots and the Cannes Film Festival, where he also took the 2024 Palme d’Or for Anora. In this case he isn’t directing, instead leaving that to…

EXCLUSIVE: Long-time Sean Baker collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou's directorial debut Left-Handed Girl world premieres in the Cannes Film Festival's parallel section Critics' Week this month, and Deadline can unveil a first teaser. There is an extra frisson of excitement around the film thanks to the…

Fresh from his Oscars sweep with Cannes Palme d'Or winner Anora, Sean Baker could be back on the Croisette this year as the producer, co-writer and editor of long-time American-Taiwanese collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou's Left-Handed Girl. The Taipei-set drama was announced on Monday as having being…

Belgian director Laura Wandel's child custody drama Adam's Interest, starring Anamaria Vartolomei and Léa Drucker, will open the 64th Cannes Critics' Week, which unveiled its 2025 selection today. The second feature from Wandal after gritty childhood bullying drama Playground, the handheld…

Bill Maher returned to the topic of the Best Picture Oscar winner Anora on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Last week, Maher posited that Sean Baker’s indie hit winning the big prize on Oscar night was helped by the Karla Sofía Gascón controversies that tainted her leading Oscar nominee Emilia…