Attending a film festival is an exciting experience. It can also be expensive, surprising, inspiring, trying, exhausting, ...

In my previous article, I looked at the topic of Hallmark Christmas movies. It took me deep down the Hallmark rabbit hole, and I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed the journey into schmaltzy, feel-good ...

On the latest episode of the podcast Scriptnotes, the hosts, John August and Craig Mazin, were talking about Hallmark Christmas movies. Craig asked, “How many do we think there have been?” to which ...

Today’s article is in response to a question from Jack Malvern at The Times. He got in touch to ask if fewer romantic comedies were being made. There has been press speculation that the “rom-com” ...

I am currently at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), experiencing Canadian hospitality, international films and British jetlag. TIFF is a lot larger than I suspect most people realise.

The film industry is full of under-appreciated people whose work doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. Visual effects teams make movie stars look younger, body doubles make them look sexier and ...

This is the first of three articles about Film Festivals. In part 2 I will publish a survey I have conducted with film festival directors around the world, showing the data on their point of view.

Of all the creative jobs involved in the making of a feature film, the role of director is perhaps the most important. It’s also the one which most clearly identifies a film. We talk about Spielberg ...

Last month, I published a report into what percentage of crews on the top US grossing films of the past 20 years are women. I found that, on average, women made up only 23% of a typical film crew and ...

Last week I published the results of my study of almost 10,000 film festivals. I found that around 3,000 festivals were active (i.e had run an event in the last 2 years), most were in North America ...