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GEMS (Gender Equity in Media Society) has announced the five feature film projects from female and gender-diverse filmmakers from across Canada that will participate in this year’s The Genre Film Lab 2026.    The accelerator program takes projects that are at an advanced stage of development and offer further support to help get them over the line and into production. The program starts in Vancouver at the end of the month. The five projects will also present in a dedicated pitch session during Frontieres at Fantasia in July.    The sessions will include group development & pitch masterclasses, a Film Sales & Distribution seminar, strategy sessions with genre industry experts focusing on financing and packaging, one-on-one pitch development sessions, individualized consultancies, and a practice pitch session…

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Well, well, well. THR is reporting that Noah Hawley is set to remake Atterados (Terrified) the Argentine supernatural spectacular that introduced the world to writer-director Demián Rugna.    One of the best supernatural horror flicks to come from the LatAm region in recent years, Rugna followed that first hit with the equally incredible When Evil Lurks. Hawley has been enjying a good run on television/streaming of late with hits Fargo and Alien: Earth.    Previous attempts at remaking Terrified were made with GDT and the Muschietti siblings. Rugna will work with Hawley on developing this new project.   Third times the charm, as they say.    Noah Hawley — the Emmy-winning creative behind Fargo and Alien: Earth — has set his next film project with…

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Austrian-German filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter’s fiction debut reworks social drama conventions into a psychologically driven, docu-fiction hybrid centred on an unstable relationship shaped by loneliness, death and an implied autocratic backdrop.

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Due to unexpected technical issues and an equally frustrating amount of time resolving those issues we found ourselves crunched for time to get full coverage of the Unnamed Footage Film Festival.    No thanks to these time constraints and other obligations that have to be fulfilled we offer up a taster’s menu of reviews of the five films we managed to fit in once the technology gods became bored of playing havoc with our digital infrastructure at home.    Back on track we focused on which world premieres were available to us from the festival. We also wanted to see one particular film that was having its U.S. premiere because it was an award winner at a festival that we have had very close ties…

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Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, and Joe Alwyn star in director Aneil Karia’s modern-day adaptation.

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The director continues to assert his stylish independence with deceptively mainstream films and television series.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s divisive horror-romance stars Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, and Annette Bening.

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Brittany Allen and Jim Cummings star in this lackluster old-school creature feature.

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Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?

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Our friends at Frontières have announced the thirteen projects participating in this year’s Frontières Platform in Cannes.    Featuring six films in the Buyers Showcase and seven film in the Proof of Concept section projects are coming from all corners of the World.    Projects, the country of origin and loglines follow in the announcement below. The names that pop out right away are John Adams and Toby Poser of The Adams Family filmmaking clan (Mother of Flies, Hell Hole, Hellbender, etc, etc, etc!!!).   FRONTIÈRES AND MARCHÉ DU FILM ANNOUNCE 13 GENRE PROJECTS SELECTED FOR FRONTIÈRES PLATFORM     The Frontières Platform in Cannes returns to the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes for the tenth year, presenting 13 genre projects to the industry on May…

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