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By Dom Serafini

Now that President Donald Trump’s administration has shut down the Voice of America (VoA) radio service, a welcome development for all the dictators who found that dissonant voice (…)

“The role of intimacy coordinators was developed within the mainstream film and television industry. This profession gained prominence following the #MeToo movement around 2017, highlighting the need for safer practices (…)

Cannes has helped Lille make Series Mania an even bigger success than previous years.

The closing of MIPTV, which took place in Cannes, in the south of France, in early April, (…)

In 2022 — the latest year for available figures for European theatrical fiction films — financing continues to be based primarily on five different financing sources: direct public funding, production (…)

It’s been pretty hard to overlook New York City filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman during his 50 years of disrupting media, and now he’s back for more with Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews, a (…)

When Niccoló Messina changed the corporate name of his film and documentary studio from V-Channels Media to Insurgence, he wanted to convey a message to the industry at large. Said (…)

By now, folks in the international TV sector are aware that the independent screenings that precede the studios’ L.A. Screenings will have a new venue that is cheaper and more (…)

Rappers, influencers, and other Social Media talents tend to gain millions of followers by shocking them. Still, an equal number of people don’t understand or appreciate their avant-garde, unconventional ways. (…)

By Dom Serafini

“Do we really need an app for everything?” asked Vox Media recently. “Please don’t make me download another app,” pleaded monthly magazine The Atlantic. Indeed, we live in (…)

Publishers in the U.S. seem to have discovered that advertisers don’t want to face editorials that are negative or controversial. “Forty percent of the Washington Post‘s material is deemed unsafe (…)