Do You Love Me is an award-winning debut feature by Lebanese filmmaker Lana Daher that takes audiences on a journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory.
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Interview – ‘Do You Love Me’ Filmmaker Lana Daher Talks Preserving Lebanese Life, Love, and Loss
Lana Daher (© Tanya Traboulsi)
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Interview – dream hampton, ‘This World Is Not My Own’ Producer Breaks Down the Fascinating Life of Nellie Mae Rowe
This World is Not My Own directed by Opendox (Petter Ringbom and Marquise Stillwell) Handmade dolls, drawings, chewing gum sculptures, plastic flowers, and much more- this was the world of Nellie Mae Rowe, a Southern folk artist from Fayette County, Georgia.
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Interview – Director Aaron Fisher Discusses ‘Corporate Retreat’, His Directorial Approach, and Influences
Aaron Fisher (courtesy) Directed by Aaron Fisher, the horror-dark comedy Corporate Retreat tells the story of a group of ambitious young executives sent to a luxury team-building retreat that is unexpectedly hijacked by their former CEO and turned into a bloody battle for survival.
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Interview – ‘Middle Life’ Director Pavan Moondi Returns to His Independent Roots
Pavan Moondi Canadian filmmaker Pavan Moondi has built his career by embracing the possibilities of independent filmmaking. After spending years developing ambitious projects, Moondi found himself returning to the style of filmmaking that first inspired him, creating heartfelt stories with limited resources but with unlimited creativity.
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RIP. Sam Neill, ‘Jurassic Park’ Star Dies at 78
Sam Neill Sir Sam Neill, the acclaimed New Zealand actor known for starring in Jurassic Park and for a career spanning more than five decades across independent cinema, Hollywood blockbusters, has died at the age of 78.
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Andy Garcia to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Imagen Awards
Andy Garcia (Mlmattes) Veteran actor, filmmaker, producer, and musician Andy Garcia will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 41st Annual Imagen Awards.
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Variety to Honor Matthew McConaughey at Arkansas’ Filmland
The Rivals of Amziah King by Andrew Patterson Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey will receive the Variety Legend & Groundbreaker Award at Filmland in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Teyana Taylor to Receive Icon of the Year Award at BET Awards
Teyana Taylor Teyana Taylor, singer, actress, director, and culture-shaper, will receive the Icon of the Year Award at the 2026 BET Awards.
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Katherine LaNasa to Receive Variety Virtuoso Award at Bentonville Film Festival
Katherine LaNasa (Mlmattes) Katherine LaNasa will be honored by Variety with the Variety Virtuoso Award at Bentonville Film Festival for her career achievements in film and television, including most recently, winning the Emmy and Critics’ Choice Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the HBO Max series “The Pitt.”
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Joshua and Rebecca Tickell Awarded Golden Globes Documentary Prize at Cannes Film Festival
(L-R): Geralyn White Dreyfous, Regina K. Scully, Rebecca Tickell, Joshua Tickell, Helen Hoehne, Danielle Turkov Wilson, Kelvin Harrison Jr. Photo Credit: Earl Gibson III Filmmakers Joshua Tickell and Rebecca Tickell were honored with the Golden Globes Prize for Documentary during the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
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Interview – ‘Mistura’ Director Ricardo de Montreuil Talks Food, Self-discovery in Peruvian Drama
Mistura by Ricardo de Montreuil Set against the colorful backdrop of 1960s Lima, writer-director Ricardo de Montreuil’s latest feature, Mistura, tells the story of Norma Piet, a privileged French-Peruvian woman whose life is forever changed when her husband’s betrayal ostracizes her from the elite society around which she had forged her identity.
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Otilia Portillo Padua Explores Entanglements and Reciprocity in ‘Daughters of the Forest’ Interview
Otilia Portillo Padua, director of Daughters of the Forest (photo credit Jesse Sabatier) There is an entwined relationship between humans and nature, the visible and invisible, and a world that is being threatened by ecological loss. In a sci-fi documentary centering two scientifically trained women from Indigenous communities in Mexico, Daughters of the Forest (Hijas del Bosque) explores how mushrooms offer models of coexistence.