A film-industry newsletter covering how films gain access to festivals, grassroots distribution, and career strategy for independent filmmakers. It mixes data-driven commentary, event promotion for the publisher's own film, and roundups of interviews and articles from others.
Website: https://onthefestcircuit.substack.com
Data-driven analysis of the film industry, covering festival selection, studio greenlight models and film marketing. Readers get original research with clear methodology that is aimed at helping filmmakers understand how funding, production and distribution work.
Hongbao is a French-language weekly film newsletter focused on Asian cinema, especially Korean and Chinese films, with release schedules, festival news and opinionated reviews. Readers get cinema picks for Paris and festival coverage such as the Korean Film Festival in Paris.
A film criticism newsletter with reviews and essays on documentaries, festival screenings and world cinema, plus occasional podcast appearances. Reviews connect films to pop culture, politics and film history.
A film newsletter built around a weekly viewing guide to new and notable films directed by women, plus essays on lost silent films and festival coverage. Readers get opinionated reviews, festival guides and researched film-history writing with archival detail.
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