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Industry

Sundance 2025 Is Warmer but Cheaper

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival acquisitions market cleared more titles than any edition since 2022, but at substantially lower average price points. The buyers are active. The cheques are smaller.

Casey Winters·2 Dec·4 min

Essays

Festival Cinema Has Become Something Else and the Festivals Haven't Noticed

The specific function of the international film festival circuit has quietly changed across the last five years. An essay on what Cannes, Venice, Sundance, and TIFF are actually doing now, and what they have stopped doing.

Priya Nair·11 Nov·7 min