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by Rebecca Martin
October 31, 2026
We often hear that you view a film through the lens of your own experience. For me, film has always worked the other way around too: it expands my experience
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by Rebecca Martin
October 30, 2026
At the 62nd Chicago International Film Festival, I was fortunate to attend an industry event featuring a conversation with producer Alex Coco, whose credits include “Club Kid,” “Anora,” and “Red
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by Rebecca Martin
October 26, 2026
When I covered the New Orleans Film Festival in 2023, I discovered that creative non-fiction is a documentary genre of its own: films made in unconventional ways, rather than the
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by Rebecca Martin
October 24, 2026
When I was in middle school, a girl from our friend group named Lisa died in a car accident. She and her sister were turning into a movie theater when
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by Rebecca Martin
October 2, 2026
Speaking with Rachel Morrison let me check another bucket-list filmmaker off my list. As a cinematographer, she shot some of my favorite films, including “Mudbound” (Dee Rees) and “Fruitvale Station”
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by Rebecca Martin
September 25, 2026
This is a preview piece ahead of the Music Box Theatre screening of “Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency” on Tuesday, September 29; the full feature interview will follow closer
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by Rebecca Martin
September 22, 2026
We’re bringing back our Sundance interview with Liz Sargent before the theatrical release of her feature “Take Me Home” on September 23rd. Distributed by WILLA. The film is one of
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by Rebecca Martin
August 30, 2026
After a drunk-driving accident, a young woman with her jaw wired shut sets out for a fun night with her friends—but what begins as a night of parties and social
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by Rebecca Martin
August 20, 2026
Teresa Moore is a Chicago-based filmmaker, entrepreneur, and actor and co-founder and executive producer of Film in a Bag Productions, a video production company founded by five filmmakers dedicated to
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by Rebecca Martin
August 19, 2026
At the intersection of high-stakes ambition and personal vulnerability lies “Achiever”, a sharp, heartfelt comedy that offers a tender look at an often-unspoken reality: the impact of psychiatric medication on
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by Rebecca Martin
August 12, 2026
For decades, the “stoner comedy” has been a heavily male-dominated subgenre, often leaning on the same predictable tropes. With “The Wrong Girls” (premiering August 14 from NEON), writer-director Dylan Meyer
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by Rebecca Martin
August 7, 2026
Few debut features arrive with the confidence and emotional honesty of Megan Seely’s “Puddysticks.” Equal parts dark comedy, psychological drama, and coming-of-age story for adults, the film follows anxious video
