When Oakland documentary filmmaker Patrice O’Neill heard about the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018, she was, like so many others, “horrified.”
Eleven people were killed during Shabbat services by a white supremaci
Kevin Rapp was once on track be a successful filmmaker, but life had other plans. He became a teacher in Novato.
Now wrapping up his education career, Rapp can still point to a legacy of filmmaking. He carved out a niche shooting movies at Sinaloa Mid
Launched last March, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation funds fellowships for Bay Area artists working across varied disciplines — dance, film, public space, and theater — who “push the boundaries of creative expression, anchor local communities, and adva
"North Central" was accepted into five film festivals and won three awards. LT Coopwood is now hoping to finance a distribution plan.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Four years ago, a Sacramento man sold his house to finance his dream of producing a film in his
The oldest film festival in America returns to in-person movies and events this year, beginning Thursday and running through May 1.
As ever, the SFFILM Festival offers a healthy selection of Bay Area films — films shot ‘round these parts or made by lo
It’s one of those Bay Area urban legends high on repetition and low on details — like the Oakland port cranes inspiring “The Empire Strikes Back” (they didn’t) or Julia Child dining at Tu Lan (she did).
“The ‘What’s Up, Doc’ chase scene ruined the Alt
Though Hollywood has served as the film capital of the US for more than a century, the entire Golden State has been a backdrop for countless movies, TV shows and commercials. Lured by the mild climate, diverse landscapes and short drive up from LA,
Disney’s “Cruella” is both a live-action “101 Dalmatians” origin story and an ode to 1970s London. It’s set at the height of the punk rock era, when an “anything goes” mentality ruled music, fashion and makeup. When she took on the job, mak
Mark Lanza, president of the Motion Picture Sound Editors, has been working from home since the coronavirus shut everything down. That’s the new norm for Lanza and many other sound editors as they learn to adapt to the pandemic.
As president of the o
By consistently aiming his movies at the PG-13/12A certificate, the director has made himself cinema’s pre-eminent big-budget auteur.
ou can count the directors who’ve been able to command budgets over $200m (£152m) for original blockbusters on one ha
Universal Filmed Entertainment Group has its head in the cloud — and now it’s going to push its production teams there.
The company has embarked on a major multiyear strategy to move its studios’ film and TV production from in-house servers to the Mic
Twenty years after “Bring It On” debuted, “Brr it’s cold in here” and “This is not a democracy, it’s a cheerocracy” have shown no signs of being shunted aside from the cultural lexicon.
But in the late ’90s when screenwriter Jessica Bendinger shopped
Entertainment mogul Sumner Redstone, who died August 11 after clinging to life for 97 years, also hung onto the old model of the legacy Hollywood studio. He embraced network TV, two-hour Paramount movies playing in theaters, and cable channels like M
Not many companies can say they won an Academy Award with their first film. But Lion Forge Animation’s Carl Reed and David Steward II, who formed the U.S.’s only Black-owned animation studio last year to address a lack of representation in the genre,
After prolonged closures due to the coronavirus pandemic, movie theaters in the United States and other parts of the world are slowly starting to turn the lights back on, welcome patrons and hear their cash registers ring again.
In modern times, openi
Like many, filmmakers Deon Taylor has been stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. And like many, he’s been itching to get back to production.
Inspired by quarantine and lockdown, Taylor told his wife, producer Roxanne Avent Taylor, he was goin
Few can argue that Latinos haven’t been greatly underrepresented in Hollywood, particularly at the creative level. A key reason, many say, is an insufficient comprehension of what the terms “Latino” and the gender-neutral “Latinx” mean.
When Hollywoo
For self-identifying Muslims, there was something to finally cheer when Emmy nominations were unveiled on Ju
Like its title character, Babe, released a quarter-century ago, is the story of an underestimated little thing that went on to stup
