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‘Familia’ Team On Adapting Luigi Celeste’s Popular Memoir Into Italy’s Oscar Contender – Contenders International
Italy is the most successful country in the Best International Feature Film Oscar category with 14 wins, and this yea...
‘All That’s Left Of You’ Writer-Director-Star Cherien Dabis On Jordan’s Generations-Spanning Oscar Submission: “It Was Inspired By My Family” – Contenders International
There’s an unintended irony in the title of Cherien Dabis’s Oscar entry, a decades-spanning saga involving three gene...
Adrien Brody Says He Has Not Accepted A Role Since Oscar-Winning Performance In ‘The Brutalist’
Adrien Brody has revealed that he has yet to accept a new role in the wake of his Best Actor Academy Award last March...
Imran Hamdulay & His ‘The Heart Is A Muscle’ Leads Discuss Shooting Their Expansive Family Drama On A Micro Budget – Contenders International
South Africa competes in this year’s Best International Feature race with The Heart Is a Muscle, the debut feature fr...
‘Jane Austen’s Period Drama’ Filmmaking Duo On Blending Comedy & Menstrual Education In Oscar-Qualifying Short
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good conscience must be in want of a know...
‘The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo’s Diego Céspedes On Inspirations For AIDS-Era Modern Western – Contenders International
Chilean filmmaker Diego Céspedes’ first feature won the Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize in May and has played at a raf...
Everything Announced at CCXP 2025
CCXP in Brazil has grown into a significant event that showcases some of the most exciting news and moments in the en...
Joe Jonas Playfully Responds To ‘Camp Rock 3’ Critic Asking If Jonas Brothers Are “In Serious Debt”
After 15 years, Joe Jonas hasn’t lost his sense of humor when it comes to portraying Shane Gray in Camp Rock 3. While...
‘No Other Choice’ Director Park Chan-wook On South Korea’s Darkly Comic Oscar Submission: “Lee Byung Hun Asked Me, ‘Can It Be Funny?’”– Contenders International
Park Chan-wook’s latest film took nearly 20 years to reach the screen, since he first picked up Donald E. Westlake’s ...
‘Sentimental Value’, ‘The Secret Agent’ And ‘It Was Just An Accident’ Lead The International Oscar Race
Just before lockdown struck in 2020, the Best International Feature Film category was about to break wide open, with ...
Agnieszka Holland Talks Bringing Franz Kafka To Life In ‘Franz’ & Neurodivergence Questions – Contenders International
Agnieszka Holland’s biopic Franz world premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September and has since played a raf...
‘Belén’s Dolores Fonzi And Producer Leticia Cristi On Argentina’s Oscar Submission: “This Story Had To Become A Movie” – Contenders International
“Belén” is famous among Argentinian women — yet very few of them know her true identity. All is explained in Belén, a...
‘100 Liters Of Gold’ Team Talks About Brewing Up Finnish Dark Comedy – Contenders International
Finnish maestro Teemu Nikki returns to his home village of Sysmäi for a tale of two sisters who are famed for their s...
‘The Sea’ Director Shai Carmeli-Pollak & Producer Baher Agbariya Talk Inspiration For Palestinian-Focused Israeli Entry – Contenders International
Israeli director Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s drama The Sea follows 12-year-old Khaled, a Palestinian boy living in the land...
‘The Testaments’ First-Look Photos Drop As Hulu Sets Premiere Month
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale follow-up, The Testaments, will premiere in April, starring Ann Dowd, reprising her origin...
Chan Mou Yin Anselm On How He Crafted His Box Office Hit & Hong Kong Oscar Entry ‘The Last Dance’ – Contenders International
The Last Dance, Hong Kong’s entry for the Best International Oscar race, hasn’t only been a hit with local critics. T...
‘Paradise’ Creator Dan Fogelman Reveals Season 2 Premiere Date And First Teaser At CCXP Brazil
Sterling K. Brown‘s Special Agent Collins is back to search for his wife in Season 2 of Paradise amid the catastrophi...
How A Catholic School Girls’ Choir Provided A Perfect Backdrop To Explore A Teen Coming-Of-Age Tale For ‘Little Trouble Girls’ Filmmaker Urška Djukic – Contenders International
Urška Djukic was watching a Catholic girls choir singing a Slovenian folk song when she first got the inspiration to ...
Tereza Nvotová & Veronika Paštéková On How They Managed To Film “Impossible” Forgotten Baby Syndrome Drama ‘Father’ – Contenders International
Prolific Slovakian filmmaker Tereza Nvotová returned to feature filmmaking this year with Father, a tightly construct...
Ariana Grande’s ‘Wicked’ Vocal Coach Reveals She Helped Other Actresses Prep For Glinda Audition
In the true spirit of Glinda the Good, Ariana Grande gave other actresses the resources to be ‘Popular’ at their Wick...