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Sundance Says Thank You, and Goodbye, to Park City
“It’s hard not to feel a disturbance in the force,” said Ethan Hawke, whose acting career took off after his early movies appeared at the Utah festival in the 1990s.
The actor Ethan Hawke wouldn’t be Ethan Hawke without the Sundance Film Festival. The director Cathy Yan might have given up her filmmaking dreams without it. And the producer Matthew Greenfield may not have become president of Searchlight Pictures if Sundance had not accepted his first film, “Star Maps,” into the festival in 1997.
As the thousands of movie industry insiders and fans make their annual pilgrimage to Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival this week, their memories about the event’s past are threatening to overwhelm the films.
That is because this is the last year that the event will be held in Park City, its home for 40-plus years. (Its future home is Boulder, Colo.) And because this is the first festival since the death of its founder, Robert Redford.
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BAFTA Film Awards Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Sinners’ Dominate as ‘I Swear’ Leads the Charge for British Indies
The escalating “One Battle After Another” and “Sinners” duel is heading to the U.K., with the two films — both from Warner Bros. — emerging atop the pack of BAFTA Film Award nominees.
Following Tuesday’s announcement, Paul Thomas Anderson’s political satire leads the way with 14 nominations overall, just two shy of the record set by “Gandhi” and leveling with “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Atonement,” “The King’s Speech” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”
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Netflix to Keep Warner Bros. Movies in Theaters for 45-Day Window, Says Ted Sarandos: ‘I Want to Win the Box Office’
Ted Sarandos keeps insisting that Netflix has come to make money from Warner Bros.’ theatrical movie business — not to bury it.
Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix, reiterated in an interview with the New York Times published Friday the company’s stance that should it close the megadeal with Warner Bros. Discovery to buy WB’s studios and streaming businesses, it will continue to release the studio’s films theatrically. And, specifically, he said that Netflix would keep a 45-day window for theatrical runs of Warner Bros. movies.
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Lucasfilm Replacing Kathleen Kennedy With Dave Filoni, Lynwen Brennan as New ‘Star Wars’ Bosses
Kathleen Kennedy will end her 14-year run at Lucasfilm. She will be replaced by not one, but two executives when she leaves the Walt Disney Company this year. Chief Creative Officer Dave Filoni and President and General Manager Lynwen Brennan will both lead the company behind “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” as it looks to recapture its stride. Filoni’s elevation had been widely expected, but Brennan’s promotion is something of a surprise. It suggests that Disney felt the need to pair a strong filmmaking force with someone with a firm sense of budgets and balance sheets.
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INDEPENDENT FILM & TELEVISION ALLIANCE® NAMES JACKIE BRENNEMAN NEXT PRESIDENT & CEO
Former NATO Executive Vice President & General Counsel to Succeed Jean Prewitt, Longtime IFTA® and AFM® President & CEO
LOS ANGELES, CA — January 14, 2026 — The Independent Film & Television Alliance® (IFTA®), the global trade association representing the independent film and television industry and producer of the American Film Market® (AFM®), today announced the appointment of Jackie Brenneman as its next President & Chief Executive Officer. She succeeds Jean Prewitt, who is stepping down at the end of the month after 25 years leading the organization.
Brenneman joins IFTA with a career spanning organizational leadership, government relations, legal practice, and nonprofit oversight. She spent nearly a decade at NATO, rising through the organization to Executive Vice President and General Counsel, where she served as a strategic leader for the exhibition community and the organization’s membership during periods of significant change and disruption. Her work encompassed competition and regulatory matters—including exhibition industry response to the termination of the Paramount Consent Decrees—advocacy on copyright and trade policy, revenue and partnership development, as well as event management. She led NATO’s industry relief efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, including its “Save Our Screens” initiative, and was President of The Cinema Foundation, the organization’s nonprofit arm dedicated to advancing the cultural and economic impact of theatrical exhibition.
For more information on IFTA, visit www.IFTA-online.org.
Golden Globes 2026 Winners: ‘One Battle After Another’ Earns 4 Awards, ‘Adolescence’ Leads TV
‘Hamnet’ wins best drama, ‘The Pitt’ and ‘The Studio’ land top TV prizes.
“One Battle After Another,” a blistering satire about radical politics, and “Hamnet,” a look at William Shakespeare’s complicated domestic life, took top prizes at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards. “The Studio,” a send-up of Hollywood, was named best TV series (musical or comedy) and “The Pitt,” which takes place in an over-stretched hospital, won best TV series (drama). Best limited or anthology series went to “Adolescence,” the story of a murder investigation that unfolds in one, continuous shot.
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ATX TV Festival Debuts New “Indie TV Pilot Competition & Showcase” to Boost Burgeoning Independent TV Movement
Independent TV leaders Duplass Brothers Productions board as Strategic Advisors to the first-ever program at the leading small-screen festival
ATX TV Festival, the leading television festival for both industry and fans, will mark its milestone 15th anniversary by introducing a new“Indie TV Pilot Competition & Showcase” program in direct response to the growing practice of independently-produced television series.
The new ATX TV Festival “Indie TV Pilot Competition & Showcase” will give TV creators a chance to screen their pilot and win the Best Indie TV Pilot award at the 2026 ATX TV Festival, happening May 28-31, 2026 in Austin, TX. This program is designed for independently-produced pilots without world wide distribution that need a boost of industry visibility, distribution, and guidance to get to the next level.
Longtime ATV TV Festival speaker and attendee Mark Duplass, a leading creative voice in both traditional and independent TV spaces, will join with Duplass Brothers Productions as Strategic Advisors to help guide the program in its first year and beyond. Leading creative crowdfunding platform Seed&Spark will provide support for the program.
“For the last few years, indie TV has been a hot topic both on and off our panels within the industry attendance at ATV TV Festival, and we’ve made intentional moves to highlight these shows, conversations, and creators alongside amazing traditionally-produced network and streaming TV,” said ATX TV Festival co-founders Caitlin McFarland and Emily Gipson. “With the launch of our ‘Indie TV Pilot Competition & Showcase,’ we’re firmly planting a flag as the place to be for indie TV creators to get their pilots seen and move their work forward. We’re thrilled to launch the new Indie TV Pilot Competition & Showcase timed to our 15th anniversary alongside longtime ATX TV friends and TV mastermind Mark Duplass, whose support and vision is of immense value to us and our community. Our intention is for ATX TV Festival to become a robust marketplace for independent TV series in the coming years, and we can’t wait to kick it off in 2026.”
This Competition & Showcase will expand on the festival’s ongoing Indie TV programming, which has ramped up in recent years and has previously featured screenings and conversations for The Long Long Night (Duplass Brothers Productions), You Belong Here (Macaroni Art), Bollywood Dance U (Meralta Films & Amplify Pictures), and Everyone Is Doing Great from multi-hyphenates James Lafferty & Stephen Colletti, among others.
To participate in the showcase, creators may submit completed Pilot episodes between 20 mins - 1 hour in length, across all genres. From the submitted Pilot episodes, a minimum of three (3) will be selected by the festival’s Programming team to be screened as part of an Indie TV Pilot Showcase, where a judging panel of industry creatives & executives will select one (1) winner.
The Indie TV Pilot Competition & Showcase is the newest addition to ATX TV’s open submission opportunities, alongside the annual Pitch Competition & Mentorship Program which aims to give burgeoning TV writers the community, support, and tools needed to take the next steps in their careers.
Submissions are open for both the Indie TV Pilot Competition & Showcase and ATX TV’s ongoing program, the Pitch Competition & Mentorship Program.
All Programming and Panelists are subject to change.
Badges for the festival are available now: atxfestival.com/attend
Imax Closes Out 2025 With $1.28 Billion At Global Box Office, Up 40% And Its Best Year Ever
Imax ended 2025 with a record $1.28 billion grossed worldwide, the best year it’s ever had. The slate grew overall and local language films busted out with two of its top five films for the year — Ne Zha 2 ($167 million) and Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle ($95.9 million) — coming from beyond Hollywood.
The others were Avatar: Fire and Ash ($112 million), F1: The Movie ($97.6 million) and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning ($75.8 million). In all, the company grew global box office year-over-year by 40%, surpassing its previous record, set in 2019, by +13%.
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Critics Choice Awards 2026: The Complete Winners List
“One Battle After Another” won best picture, while the top acting honors went to Timothée Chalamet (“Marty Supreme”) and Jessie Buckley (“Hamnet”).
“One Battle After Another” claimed its first televised trophies on Sunday night, earning the best-picture prize at the Critics Choice Awards.
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the film about a burned-out revolutionary searching for his daughter won three awards total, including honors for directing and adapted screenplay.
“This is the best time I ever had making a movie, and I feel like it shows,” Anderson said.
The Critics Choice Awards, presented by a group of more than 500 broadcast critics and journalists in Santa Monica, Calif., usually follow the Golden Globes and often rubber-stamp the same set of winners. But after moving to an earlier date — with the Globes coming one week later this year, on Jan. 11 — pundits were curious to see which direction the Critics Choice voters would take.
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Why Jamie Lee Curtis Is Thankful Her Mom Didn’t Let Her Audition for ‘The Exorcist’ as a Child
The Oscar winner eventually made her horror film debut in 1978’s ‘Halloween.’
While Jamie Lee Curtis is now famously known as the Scream Queen, she recently revealed that her mom actually stopped her from making her horror film debut as a child.
During a recent appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, the Oscar winner recalled a producer wanting her to audition for 1973’s The Exorcist. However, she said her mother, Janet Leigh, declined the opportunity for her then preteen daughter.
“He called my mom and said, ‘Hey, I’m producing the movie of the book The Exorcist.’ Will you let Jamie audition for it?’” Curtis recounted. “And at the time I was probably 12 and, like, cute and kind of sassy and I had some personality, and I’m sure he saw me at a party and was like, ‘Oh, she’d be funny.’ And my mother said, ‘No.’”
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The Netflix Chief Who Insists He Won’t Ruin Hollywood
Ted Sarandos, a movie buff and one-time video-store clerk, may soon oversee the iconic Warner Bros. studio
Ted Sarandos has minted his status as an entertainment power broker, but he still feels the need to tell the world that he’s not trying to destroy Hollywood.
To mark the deal to acquire much of Warner Bros. Discovery for $72 billion—even as rival suitor Paramount battled for it—Sarandos toured the Warner Bros. studio lot this past week. He promised in a speech in Paris to keep movies in theaters. And in a memo to Netflix employees after the deal was announced, he directly addressed the question that keeps dogging him.
“Some feel this is the end of Hollywood. What’s our response to that?” he and co-Chief Executive Greg Peters wrote. “We see this as a win for the entertainment industry, not the end of it.”
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Documentary The Real Yellowstone Completed with DaVinci Resolve Studio
Oliver Peters details his experience using DaVinci Resolve Studio as his principal editing platform.
Fremont, CA, USA - Oliver Peters is an editor and colorist with expertise in commercials, television and feature films. After being tapped by award winning Director and human rights advocate Tom Opre to assist with recuts for his “Killing the Shepherd” documentary, Peters quickly signed on to edit the subsequent two films in Opre’s series, “The Last Keeper” and “The Real Yellowstone.” These films reveal how true conservation begins with respect for the people who live closest to the wildlife.
“‘The Real Yellowstone’ was my third documentary film for Opre but the first using DaVinci Resolve Studio for both offline and online editing. The switch to Resolve came at the urging of the colorist, largely to eliminate relinking issues he’d encountered in the past with other systems,” said Peters. “Up until now, I’ve used DaVinci Resolve Studio for color grading and some minimal editing tied to finishing work, and ‘The Real Yellowstone’ is the first project where I used Resolve as my principal editing application, start to finish.”
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The Oscars will move to YouTube in 2029, leaving longtime home of ABC
In a seismic shift for one of television’s marquee events, the Academy Awards will depart ABC and begin streaming on YouTube beginning in 2029, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday.
ABC will continue to broadcast the annual ceremony through 2028. That year will mark the 100th Oscars.
But starting in 2029, YouTube will retain global rights to streaming the Oscars through 2033. YouTube will effectively be the home to all things Oscars, including red-carpet coverage, the Governors Awards and the Oscar nominations announcement.
“We are thrilled to enter into a multifaceted global partnership with YouTube to be the future home of the Oscars and our year-round Academy programming,” said academy chief executive Bill Kramer and academy president Lynette Howell Taylor. “The Academy is an international organization, and this partnership will allow us to expand access to the work of the Academy to the largest worldwide audience possible — which will be beneficial for our Academy members and the film community.”
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Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $83 Billion Deal to Create a Streaming Giant
The deal to acquire the Hollywood behemoth’s television and film studios as well as HBO Max will bulk up the world’s biggest paid streaming service.
Netflix announced plans on Friday to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming business, in a deal that will send shock waves through Hollywood and the broader media landscape.
The cash-and-stock deal values the business at $82.7 billion, including debt. The acquisition is expected to close after Warner Bros. Discovery carves out its cable unit, which the companies expected be completed by the third quarter of 2026. That means there will be a separate public company controlling channels like CNN, TNT and Discovery.
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Robert Yeoman to be Honored with American Society of Cinematographers’ Lifetime Achievement Award
M. David Mullen, Cynthia Pusheck, Stephen Pizzello and Kodak to be Celebrated at 40th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards
LOS ANGELES (Dec. 3, 2025) – The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) will hold its 40th Annual Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Gala on March 8, 2026, honoring a distinguished slate of recipients. Robert Yeoman, ASC will receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his enduring impact and visionary contributions. M. David Mullen, ASC will be honored with the Career Achievement in Television Award, celebrating a legacy of excellence across the medium. Cynthia Pusheck, ASC will be presented with the President’s Award for her outstanding leadership and service. Stephen Pizzello, editor-in-chief of American Cinematographer Magazine, will receive an Award of Distinction for editorial innovation and influence. Kodak will be recognized with the Curtis Clark Technology Award, spotlighting its creative excellence and cultural impact.
The ASC Awards Gala will be held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, and will be livestreamed globally, allowing cinema fans and industry professionals alike to join in the celebration of excellence in cinematography.
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AFM® CONCLUDES ITS RETURN TO LOS ANGELES WITH HIGH PRAISE, SOLD-OUT EXHIBITION SPACE, AND STRONG PARTICIPATION FROM 83 COUNTRIES
Four Days of Programming Featured 135 Industry Leaders, Experts, Creatives, and Innovators Across Film, TV and AI Technology
LOS ANGELES, CA – November 20, 2025 – The American Film Market® (AFM®) concluded its 46th edition on Sunday, November 16, 2025 marking the Market’s return home to Los Angeles and its first-ever staging at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Century City.
AFM brought together sales and production companies, buyers, financiers, film commissions, and representatives from every corner of the independent industry across 83 countries for a dynamic week of dealmaking, screenings, conferences, networking, and events.
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Unforgettable Cinematography of Adam Newport-Berra with ZEISS Lenses
Cinematographer Adam Newport-Berra (Good Fortune, The Bear, Euphoria) emerged from the 2025 Emmy season with a statuette celebrating his Outstanding Cinematography for a Half-Hour Series on Apple+ hit The Studio. This is hardly the first distinguished project where Newport-Berra’s cinematography brings a complex vibrancy to the overall look. His electrifying work across television, feature films, and music videos is setting a new benchmark in filmmaking today.
Zeiss is Newport-Berra’s frequent lens choice, from his earliest days at New York Film School to recent cultural juggernauts like The Studio, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Bear’s look-setting pilot, and Kendrick Lamar’s genre-defying music videos. “I came up using Zeiss Super Speeds, Standard Speeds, Ultra Primes, and Master Primes,” Newport-Berra shares. “I love the resolve and the contrast of Zeiss lenses. They have this realness, but also a dreamlike quality. You can feel the three-dimensionality––it’s sharp, but never too sharp.”
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SmallHD Unlocks Camera Control for Canon
Raleigh, NC – November 11, 2025 — SmallHD today announced the release of its popular Camera Control for Canon cinema cameras. This new integration enables filmmakers to adjust critical camera settings directly from their SmallHD monitor, streamlining production and saving valuable time on set.
Built on SmallHD’s award-winning PageOS platform, the Camera Control software gives users the ability to view their shot, fine-tune camera settings, and navigate deep Canon menu systems without leaving the monitor interface. With Camera Control for Canon, users can: adjust shutter speed, aperture, ISO, ND, codec, and trigger record start/stop, use touch-to-focus functionality; and access and control the full camera menu.
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AFM® 2025 EXHIBITION SPACE SOLD OUT AS INDUSTRY RETURNS TO LOS ANGELES WITH MARKET SET TO KICK OFF TOMORROW, NOVEMBER 11
Additional Speakers Announced for The AFM Sessions Including Executives from AGC Studios, Bleecker Street, Charades, FX, HanWay Films, HBO, Highland Film Group, NAACP, PGA, SAG-AFTRA, Samuel Goldwyn Films, TrustNordisk and Tribeca Enterprises
LOS ANGELES, CA – November 10, 2025 – The American Film Market® (AFM®), which officially launches tomorrow, November 11, and runs through November 16 at the Fairmont Century Plaza, has sold out of Exhibition space as the world’s leading independent production, sales, distribution, and buying companies, along with film commissions, production service companies, and AI/technology players, prepare to convene at the Market for its anticipated return to Los Angeles.
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DOP LEAN-VERCOE LIGHTS INTRIGUE WITH ASTERA ON OUTRAGES
Astera Titan and Helios Tubes Add Style to a Period Drama
BAFTA-nominated cinematographer Annemarie Lean-Vercoe (“Breeders”, “Call the Midwife”, “Murder in Provence”) was just the DoP to set the look on sophisticated and scandalous BritBox limited series “Outrageous”. Set in the 1920s, the aptly titled show is a lush British period dramatization starring the infamously unconventional Mitford sisters. With an expansive narrative that spans historical landmarks from the grand country estates of Buckinghamshire to the Georgian elegance of High Elms Manor in Hertfordshire, the locations used in “Outrageous” ground the Mitfords’ story in a richly authentic 1930s setting. Lean-Vercoe choose Astera Titan and Helios Tubes to create the lush, pastoral-British tone that connects and elevates the very different characters.
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Other World Computing (OWC) to Showcase Next-Gen Workflow Solutions for Photographers and Creatives at ProFusion Expo 2025
Canadian Filmmaker Chris Hau to Share How He Restructured His Creative Workflow from Cloud Dependency to Faster, Safer Hybrid Approach Using OWC Solutions
Other World Computing (OWC®), a trusted leader in high-performance storage, memory, connectivity, software, and accessories that empower creative and business professionals to maximize performance, enhance reliability, and streamline workflows, today announced its participation at ProFusion Expo 2025, taking place November 5–6 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (Hall B).
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New York Bets Big on Its Screen Future With Massive Studio Investments Across the Five Boroughs
The city that never sleeps is fast becoming the city that never stops shooting.
Across the five boroughs — and spilling into New Jersey and Long Island — New York City is undergoing its biggest production infrastructure boom in decades. From Manhattan’s West Side to the waterfronts of Brooklyn and Queens, developers are racing to meet the global demand for soundstages, spurred by ballooning content needs, competitive state incentives, and a post-strike rebound that’s bringing big shows back to the Big Apple.
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Warner Bros. Discovery Says It Is Considering a Sale
The owner of CNN, HBO and the Warner Bros. movie studio revealed that it has received acquisition interest from multiple suitors.
Warner Bros. Discovery, the owner of HBO, CNN and the Warner Bros. movie studio, just hung a “for sale” sign on its business. In a lengthy statement released Tuesday morning, Warner Bros. Discovery said that it was considering a variety of deals, including a sale of the entire company or a spinoff of some assets, in response to interest from multiple potential buyers.
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ZEISS Opens BETA Registration for CinCraft Virtual Lens Technology
Oberkochen, Germany – October 16, 2025 – ZEISS announces an open call for the closed BETA testing phase of CinCraft Virtual Lens Technology, the innovative digital tool that brings authentic lens characteristics to compositing and visual effects workflows. This pre-release BETA program invites professional VFX artists to test the technology in real-world conditions and be part of the valuable feedback that will help refine the final release.
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“A HEALING JOURNEY: COMANCHE ACADEMY” TOLD WITH THE ZEISS CP.3 AND CZ.2 LENSES
Located in Lawton, Oklahoma, the Comanche Academy is more than a kindergarten and elementary school—it is a community effort to reclaim Indigenous culture and identity for future generations. In collaboration with documentarian/cinematographer Kathryn Boyd-Batstone, Comanche educator Linette Amparan and producer Jhane Myers (“Prey”, “First We Bombed New Mexico”), the new documentary “Comanche Academy: A Healing Journey” dives into the school’s mission with compelling vulnerability. The film captures the concerted efforts across three generations to carve a space of healing education where Comanche culture and language can be reclaimed. Boyd-Batstone chose Zeiss Compact Prime and Cinema Zoom lenses with Sony FX6 to create beautiful portraits in the historied world of the Comanche Academy.
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Immersive Flashback Captures Bastille Day with URSA Cine Immersive
Viewers experience Bastille Day from President Macron’s side with a film in Apple Immersive created for Apple Vision Pro.
Fremont, CA, USA - Bastille Day is one of France’s most recognizable national events, combining military parades, aerial flyovers and state ceremonies watched around the world. For the first time, it was captured as an immersive film, allowing viewers to experience the celebration from the President’s side, using the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive digital film camera for capture and DaVinci Resolve Studio for post production.
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Other World Computing (OWC) Takes Home Two Future’s Best of IBC2025 Show Awards, Presented by TVBEurope
Both the OWC Thunderbolt 5 Dual 10GbE Network Dock and OWC Jellyfish S24 Earn Coveted Honors at IBC
WOODSTOCK, IL— Other World Computing (OWC®), a trusted leader in high-performance storage, memory, connectivity, software, and accessories that empower creative and business professionals to maximize performance, enhance reliability, and streamline workflows, today announced its OWC Thunderbolt 5 Dual 10GbE Network Dock and its OWC Jellyfish S24 have both been awarded a Future’s Best of Show Award, presented at IBC2025 by TVBEurope.
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AJA ANNOUNCES BRIDGE LIVE 12G-4
New IP video workflow solution introduces multi-channel UltraHD support, with up to four channels of bi-directional 12G-SDI I/O for flexible encoding, decoding, and transcoding
AJA Video Systems announced BRIDGE LIVE 12G-4, a high-density IP workflow solution for synchronous, multi-channel video transport and contribution, backhaul, direct-to-audience streaming, remote production, and distribution encoding. Offering 4x BNC bi-directional 12G-SDI ports in a compact 1RU enclosure, BRIDGE LIVE 12G-4 unlocks cost-efficient multi-camera/source UltraHD IP video, decreasing per-channel video costs. It also enables broadcast, production, and AV professionals to easily convert video between SDI and industry-standard IP video codecs and protocols, such as H.264, H.265, NDI, SRT, RTMP, and HLS, addressing essential encoding, decoding, and transcoding needs across live video environments.
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GUILLERMO DEL TORO TO RECEIVE CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY FILMMAKER AWARD
LOS ANGELES — October 7th, 2025 — The Cinema Audio Society today announced that Academy Award®–winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro will receive the organization’s prestigious Filmmaker Award at the 62nd Annual CAS Awards, Saturday, March 7, 2026.
“The CAS Filmmaker Award recognizes directors who understand the critical role that sound plays in film and television, and Guillermo embodies that appreciation at the highest level,” said CAS President Peter Kurland. “His films are defined not only by their stunning visuals and deeply human themes but also by their masterful use of sound to build atmosphere, suspense, and wonder. Guillermo’s collaboration with sound artists has elevated every story he’s told. We are thrilled to celebrate his contributions to the art form.”
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LIVEU PARTNERS WITH SONY TO EXPAND PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TRANSMISSION
LiveU, the leader in video-over-bonded-IP transmission, today announced a partnership with Sony Corporation, a world leader in professional camera technology. Through this collaboration, LiveU aims to maximize the credibility, efficiency, and immediacy of customers’ content by providing tools that enable truly agile news and production workflows.
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BLACKMAGIC DESIGN ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR APPLE PRORES RAW™
Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 20.2 and Blackmagic Camera 9.8 public beta which add support for Apple ProRes RAW, including footage captured with the new iPhone 17 Pro, and ProRes RAW HQ file formats. In addition, future updates for Blackmagic Camera and Blackmagic Video Assist 12G will also add both ProRes RAW file formats. DaVinci Resolve 20.2 and Blackmagic Camera 9.8 public beta are available now free of charge from the Blackmagic Design website.
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FROM ELTON JOHN TO SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION: PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER CHRIS WELCKER CAPTURES SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES WITH LECTROSONICS
New Orleans, LA – The highly anticipated mockumentary, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, was a dream project come true for Emmy-winning Production Sound Mixer Chris Welcker, but also presented him with an array of unprecedented audio challenges due to its highly improvisational nature. To master the film’s complex and unpredictable soundscape, Welcker relied extensively on an array of Lectrosonics wireless technology, including SMD, SM, SSM, DCHT, M2T and HMa transmitters, an SPDR 2-channel recorder, M2R, IFBT4, IFBR1a, and IFBlue receivers and the versatile DSR4 digital slot receivers, which proved essential for both mobility and redundancy across a dynamic production environment.
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‘Megadoc’: 4 Things We Learned From Mike Figgis’ Documentary Chronicling Francis Ford Coppola’s Self-Financed Epic ‘Megalopolis’
In “Megadoc” Mike Figgis, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of “Leaving Las Vegas,” dishes about the chaotic making of “Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola’s self-produced $120 million experimental epic.
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RICHARD LINKLATER’S UNCOMPROMISING ARTISTS
In two new historical films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague,” the director explores the challenges of staying true to a creative vision.
In “Nouvelle Vague,” a new film from the director Richard Linklater, an impassioned young movie critic expresses his belief in what cinema could be—and frets about what he himself may never be. It’s 1959, and the critic is Jean-Luc Godard, a soon-to-be leader of the French New Wave, a nascent movement of journalists who are trading in their typewriters for film cameras, aiming to ignite a cinematic revolution.
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AN EVENING OF STAR CINEMATOGRAPHERS TAKE THE STAGE AT THE KODAK HOUSE FOR THE MAKING OF LIVE
September 25, 2025 — The Making Of, the industry-leading podcast celebrating the creative professionals behind today’s most innovative films and content, drew a capacity crowd to The Kodak House in Los Angeles on September 10th for a live recording and reception. Host and founder Michael Valinsky welcomed three of the industry’s most revered cinematographers—Lol Crawley, ASC, BSC, Matthew Libatique, ASC, LPS, and William Rexer, ASC—for an evening of candid exploration of their craft and audience engagement.
“The conversations we captured at The Kodak House are exactly why I started The Making Of. Inspiring and educational, this event and the other curated events we host are unique opportunities to learn from and connect with the industry’s top artists,” said Valinsky.
Sponsored by Kodak, AJA Video Systems, LUMIX, and Cartoni, the event spotlighted the remarkable careers of the three cinematographers:
Lol Crawley, ASC, BSC – Winner of the 2025 Academy Award for The Brutalist, his additional credits include White Noise, The Humans, and 45 Years.
Matthew Libatique, ASC, LPS – Three-time Academy Award nominee, known for Requiem for a Dream, A Star is Born, Maestro, and most recently Caught Stealing and Highest 2 Lowest.
William Rexer, ASC – Cinematographer of Long Bright River, Millers in Marriage, The Crowded Room, and 2025 TIFF standout, The Testament of Ann Lee.
All three panelists have extensive experience shooting on film, and shared their recent experiences with film projects. A deep dive into their craft and workflow drew lively discussion from both the stage and audience. The Making Of has become a go-to platform for film professionals and enthusiasts alike who want to dive into the creative process of filmmaking. The podcast passed its 100th episode milestone this month and has included conversations with directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, thought leaders, & technologists. The Making Of industry newsletter reaches over a quarter of a million subscribers worldwide.
