Life is busy. Seasons changing (and awards show names too). It can be tough to stay up-to-date on 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!
“Long Time Artistic Relations Are Fascinating… And Hard to Maintain”: Rick Linklater on Nouvelle Vague and Blue Moon (via Amy Tuabin for Filmmaker Magazine)
Richard Linklater discusses his two films out this year about artistic partnerships.
“I Have Been Rather Brutal With the Text”: Behind the Scenes on Terence Davies’s Art of Adaptation (via Marc David Jacobs for BFI)
How the late Terence Davies brought famed books to the screen.
Betting the House: Inside the High-Stakes Hustle of Indie Film Funding (via Chris Cardillo for Rolling Stone)
Making requests, taking risks, and faking the funk: Tips on asking for film financing.
IMDb Adds 12 New Professional Credit Categories, Including Intimacy Coordinator and Choreographer (via Adam Chitwood for The Wrap)
More shine for below-the-line.
How Movies Make Money After Leaving Theaters: The Economics of a Film on Streaming (via Daniel Parris for Stat Significant)
Money in a post-theatrical run.
Film Crowdfunding 2.0: An Indie Studio Got 60,000 Fans to Invest $25 Million. How? (via Ashley Cullins for The Ankler)
How fans are investing in films in a post-Kickstarter-boom era.
Introducing the Sundance Film Festival 101 Watchlist (via Sundance Institute)
Sundance has released its 101 must-see films from the festival’s history.
How Much Sex, Drugs and Violence Can Be in a PG-13 Movie? (via Julia Jacobs for The New York Times)
A peek behind the curtain at the MPA ratings board, two decades after This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
‘Our Value Was Never Disrespected’: Hollywood Career Producers Are Battling Actors, Greedy Managers, Penny-Pinching Execs and Stolen Credits to Survive (via Matt Donnelly for Variety)
The current state (and fight for pay, recognition, and unionization) of career producers.
Can the Letterboxd Video Store Save Us from Corporate Media? (via Anthony Kaufman for Substack)
A new distribution platform for indie films?
“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: Mallrats Turns 30 (via Katie Baker for The Ringer)
How Kevin Smith’s second film went from sophomore slump to cult classic.
In case you were ignoring us (aka blatant self-promotion)
Film Independent Forum 2025 Highlights
Video highlights from the annual filmmakers conference, featuring SAGindie’s The New Wave panel.
Videos worth watching
How to film a Muppet outdoors (via Alex Boucher)
How ’bout you? Read anything good this month?
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