Life is busy. Holidays and family and resolutions and reflections and all that holly jolly junk. It can be tough to stay up-to-date on all the film industry news, profiles, analysis, and advice. That’s why we’ve curated some essential reads you may have missed over the past month. So take some time to catch up with this month’s good reads!
This Month’s Good Reads (December 2024)
A Massive List of Winter Grants, Labs, and Fellowships (via Laura Moss for No Film School)
Get! That! Money!
Pamela Anderson Is the Indie Film Goddess We’ve All Been Waiting For (via Dana Harris-Bridson for IndieWire)
The actress’s journey from pinup to Coppola.
Moonlight in the Lion’s Den (via Matt Zoller Seitz for Vulture)
Following Barry Jenkins through the Disney Mufasa machine.
The Basics Of Raising Seed Equity For Films (via Schuyler Moore for Forbes)
How to find your film financiers.
The Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood You’ve Never Heard Of (via Gary Baum for The Hollywood Reporter)
Colleen Camp: From character actress to indie producer to Hollywood kingmaker.
Fame, Fortune, Flounder: The Actor Crisis in 5 Parts, Part 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (via Richard Rushfield for The Ankler)
Modern problems for modern actors (with a handful of solutions).
I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies (via Jason Koebler for 404 Media)
A sneak peek at TCL’s AI streaming library.
US Producers Are Mobilizing to Protect Their Rights – and Careers – In a Changed Industry (via John Hazelton for Screen Daily)
The nonprofits, unions, and individuals working to protect film producers.
Hits & Misses 2024: Case Studies of Six Sundance 2024 Premieres (via Anthony Kaufman for Filmmaker Magazine)
How last Sundance’s hits fared once they left the mountain.
Rachel Morrison’s Long, Hard Fight for The Fire Inside (via Rebecca Ford for Vanity Fair)
The Oscar-nominated cinematographer’s journey to the director’s chair.
He Made Documentaries About Mass Murder — and Then a Tilda Swinton Musical (via Sonia Rao for The Washington Post)
Oscar-nominated documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer’s journey to the narrative director’s chair.
Tax Credits Aren’t Enough: How States Are Wooing Film Productions (via Brian Welk for IndieWire)
How to stem the Great Production Migration Problem.
He Had a Radical Idea. Here’s How RaMell Ross and His Team Got Inside Nickel Boys (via Carlos Aguilar for Los Angeles Times)
How the filmmaker and his DP created a POV feature film.
As You Like It (via Gabriel Winslow-Yost for The New York Review)
Delving into interactive cinema (and games).
Move Over Sundance – Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight Has Become the Proving Ground for American Indies (via Alex Lei for The A.V. Club)
The new U.S.-to-France-to-back-to-U.S. indie film success pipeline.
In case you were ignoring us (aka blatant self-promotion)
The Gotham Awards 2024 Winners
See who won big at New York’s biggest indie film awards ceremony.
2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominees
See who could win big at Santa Monica’s biggest indie film awards ceremony.
SAGindie’s Favorite Films of 2024
Our staff’s must-see movies of the year.
Videos worth watching
The tricky money moves of Hollywood studios (via Morning Brew)
How ’bout you? Read anything good this month?
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