Out of the full dataset, 9,894 festivals (93.8%) placed no restrictions at all. Only 26 festivals required a world premiere, ...

In March 2023, the BFI surveyed 5,000 UK adults for their “ The Wider World of Film ” report and found that the single ...

Horror is thriving in every corner of film, from IMAX blockbusters to micro-budget gems. Here’s how the genre is shifting, ...

Stick to one tone. Films that maintain a consistent mood and emotional contract with the audience perform better than those ...

I have been asked for years whether “Go Woke, Go Broke” is true for movies. So it was a real honour to be able to give the keynote today at the Zurich Summit and answer the question. Over the last few ...

Last week in an article about how long your film needs to be to be accepted into film festivals, I mentioned in passing that a 90-second short film was eligible at nine out of ten film festivals I ...

There’s a lot of advice out there about ideal running times for festivals, and most of it boils down to one thing: keep it short. A while back I interviewed over 500 film festival directors. When I ...

This is the first of a multi-part research project that I’ve been working on for some time. I have been collecting public data on the backgrounds of top film directors to investigate things like class ...

Colour is one of the quickest ways a poster can tell you what kind of film it’s selling. Before you’ve read the title or registered the actors, your brain has already clocked the palette and filed it ...

This is part two of my collaboration with Screendollars in which we spoke to 246 cinema owners and film professionals affiliated with exhibitors. We quizzed them on a range of topics, and their ...