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Are Film Markets Becoming More About Networking Than Deals? For decades, international film markets have been where producers, sales agents, distributors, buyers, and investors came together to discover projects, build partnerships, and close deals. Today, many film industry professionals feel...

Hollywood’s Glass Ceiling: Who Really Controls the Power? The film industry likes to appear progressive. More women on red carpets. More diversity panels. More carefully worded campaigns. But when you examine the real decision-making structure — directors, cinematographers, executive producers...

Why Most Indie Films Never Make Money I’ve been thinking about something that rarely gets discussed honestly in filmmaking circles. Most indie films don’t fail because they are bad. They fail because there was never a realistic plan for making money from them. We spend years talking about...

Everyone at film markets talks about creativity and vision. But behind closed doors, the real conversations are about budgets, algorithms, and distribution deals. So who really decides which films get made today? Is it the creators with original ideas, the investors who control film financing...

I’m seeing more and more trailers where the extras and backgrounds look suspiciously "perfect." Do you think the magic of cinema is lost if everything is machine-generated, or is this just a tool we need to accept? Would you pay for a ticket to a movie with zero real humans?

Five or six years ago, getting a Netflix deal felt like the ultimate goal for many independent filmmakers. Lately, I'm not so sure. I'm hearing more producers say that the hardest part isn't getting a film onto Netflix it's getting people to actually find it once it's there. That's a very...