Ahead of this year’s Marché du Film in Cannes, former festival distributor Moritz Schneider is launching Miralot, a data-driven film festival matching and submission platform aimed at helping filmmakers navigate the increasingly fragmented global festival landscape more strategically. The Berlin-based platform, founded by Schneider and Justus Timm, is backed by Roger Crotti, former Disney chief […]

Having joined forces on WWII drama-thriller “Frontier,” a Menemsha Films U.S. pickup, Catalan director Judith Colell and Barcelona-based studio Filmax are reuniting on another war tale.  This time, however, it will be told through an animated feature and the story of the friendship between Moss, a loyal dog, and a young girl, Ana.  Filmax has […]

Academy Award winners Amy Madigan (“Weapons”) and Chris Cooper (“Adaptation”) are set to star in “I Passed This Way,” a Western from two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Sayles (“Passion Fish,” “Lone Star”) that marks his first feature in more than a decade. “I Passed This Way” will begin principal photography in the fourth quarter of 2026. […]