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Beyond the Premiere: Sonora Broka on the Films the World Almost Misses
The artistic director of Riga International Film Festival reflects on the changing face of Baltic cinema, the fragile economics of independent filmmaking and why a…
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“The Cake Is Really the Journey of the Filmmaker”: Mercedes Fernández Alonso on TorinoFilmLab and the Art of Development
The TorinoFilmLab Managing Director on the Development process, Talents and Audience Design Long before a film premieres in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, or Locarno, it passes…
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“You’re curating for the filmmakers and audience, not for yourself or the festival”: Thierry Jobin on Festivals, Cultural Memory, and the Human Side of Curation
The Fribourg International Film Festival Artistic Director Reflects on Audience-Centred Programming, Political Curation, and Why Festivals Must Resist Becoming Cultural Algorithms At a time when…
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Beyond Gatekeeping: Rowan Woods on Curation, Risk, and the Future of Screen Storytelling
From festivals to streaming platforms, Woods reflects on why context, audience intelligence, and creative risk still matter in a saturated screen culture At a time…
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Breaking the Pattern: Bastian Meiresonne on Programming, Power, and the Politics of Film Circulation
How films travel—and why most don’t it—is not a mystery. It’s a system. Before a film reaches an audience, it has already passed through a…
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Against the Default Setting
Jeremy Chua shares his perspectives on producing films, shaping SGIFF, and why festivals remain vital as spaces of discovery, emphasising his core ideas for readers…
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The artistic director of Riga International Film Festival reflects on the changing face of Baltic cinema, the fragile economics of independent filmmaking and why a…
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The TorinoFilmLab Managing Director on the Development process, Talents and Audience Design Long before a film premieres in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, or Locarno, it passes…
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The Fribourg International Film Festival Artistic Director Reflects on Audience-Centred Programming, Political Curation, and Why Festivals Must Resist Becoming Cultural Algorithms At a time when…
