Inside Nayla Al Khaja’s ‘BAAB’
With BAAB, Nayla Al Khaja delivers her most intimate and uncompromising work to date. A psychological dark fantasy rooted in grief, sound, and Arab folklore, the film unfolds through the fractured inner world of a woman haunted by the loss of her twin sister. Rejecting linear storytelling in favor of atmosphere, silence, and sensory disorientation, BAAB becomes less a narrative than an experience — one that invites the viewer to step through a threshold where reality, memory, and myth collide.
Psychological Thriller Short ‘The Knock Shadow’ Heads to Festivals in 2026
The Knock Shadow, a psychological thriller short film featuring Lea DeLaria (Orange Is The New Black) and Kevin Kilner (Earth: Final Conflict), has wrapped production and is set to hit the 2026 festival circuit. Set in a psychiatric hospital in the 1980s, The Knock Shadow, follows a young female therapist who encounters a patient whose symptoms lead her to question what is real and what isn’t working in the field.
Where Sundance 2026 Truly Came Alive
Every Sundance has its hotspots, but in 2026 the conversation around Park City kept circling back to one address. Over four days and nights, The Cabin and The Velvet Room on Main Street became the place where the festival’s most consequential moments unfolded. The Elvis Mitchell Suite, Supper Club, and Film Lounge, set a new standard for Sundance’s most premier events.
Kerry Washington Honored with Elevate Prize Catalyst Award
The Elevate Prize Foundation presented the Elevate Prize Catalyst Award to Emmy Award–winning actor, producer, director, author, and activist Kerry Washington during the Sundance Film Festival today. The honor recognizes Washington's career-long commitment to using storytelling as a powerful force for democracy. For more than a decade, Washington has advanced that mission through Simpson Street Productions, the award-winning company she founded to expand whose stories are seen, heard, and valued on screen with past productions including Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere and HBO's Confirmation.
Metronome: Expanding the World of Counterpart
The award-winning dialogue-free short film Counterpart is currently being developed into a pilot titled Metronome, with the potential to expand into a series. The project builds on the narrative foundation established in the short, extending its world while preserving its visual approach that defined the original work.
A Conversation with Producer Desmond Loh
Los Angeles–based producer Desmond Qi Hong Loh represents a new generation of filmmakers navigating storytelling across formats, cultures, and platforms. A graduate of California State University, Northridge’s Film Production program, Loh has built a body of work that moves fluidly between award-winning short films, high-performing vertical dramas, and global digital media.
In Need of Seawater : Interview with Mark Anthony Thomas
More than twenty years after publishing The Poetic Repercussion, writer and filmmaker Mark Anthony Thomas returns to the words that shaped his earliest creative life—not to revisit them with nostalgia, but to translate them forward. In Need of Seawater, directed by Richard Yeagley, is the first chapter of a poetic documentary trilogy that transforms memory into movement, and poetry into a living, cinematic language.
Vision Films To Release ‘A Murder Between Friends’
Vision Films Inc. ("Vision") announces the North American Transactional VOD release of murder-com feature film A Murder Between Friends on January 13, 2026 through a deal with Scott J. Jones and Artist View Entertainment. Written and produced by Mark Rozzano and co-directed by Jacob Young and Trent Garrett, the Agatha Christie style murder mystery stars and was produced by the legendary Dame Joan Collins along with Jacob Young, Trent Garrett, Percy Gibson, and Toby-Alexander Smith.
Hulu Acquires Streaming Rights for ‘The Toxic Avenger’
Cineverse has announced today that streaming rights to The Toxic Avenger have been acquired by Hulu. The films SVOD premiere will be on Thursday, January 8, 2026.
53rd ANNIE AWARD™ NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
The 53rd Annie Awards™ will return to UCLA's Royce Hall on Saturday, February 21, 2026. Pre-reception and Red Carpet will begin at 4:30 p.m., followed by the ceremony at 7:00 p.m., and after party immediately following the ceremony. All events will take place at UCLA.