Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized May 2024: Evil Does Not Exist, I Saw the TV Glow, Gasoline Rainbow & More – 5/3/24

Christopher Schobert –

• WNY NATIVES RETURN HOME: La Famiglia Pictures co-founders shoot in Buffalo this fall – 5/6/24

Jordan M. Smith –

• Doc Alliance Award Nominees, Upcoming DocuMentality Report Release Event, Campaign to Save the West Newton Cinema – 5/6/24

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized April 2024: Sasquatch Sunset, The People’s Joker, Terrestrial Verses & More – 4/5/24

Jeff Simon –

• In his newest book, Salman Rushdie is human, brave and most of all, a writer – 4/18/24
• With ‘James,’ Percival Everett continues his crusade to expose racism – 4/25/24

Jordan M. Smith –

• Ten Hot Docs Programmers Leave in Mass Resignation, Sundance Institute Announces New Event in Chicago – 4/1/24
• Doc Filmmakers Lament Hollywood Cutbacks, Various Doc Funding & Fellowships Announced – 4/8/24
• AI’s Encroaching Presence in Documentary Filmmaking, RIP Eleanor Coppola – 4/15/24
• Sundance Courting New Host City, Doc Producers Set Best Practices for Generative-AI Use in Film – 4/22/24
• PBS Wyncote Fellows 2024, Doris Duke Foundation Grants, DC/DOX 2024 Signature Screenings – 4/29/24

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized March 2024: La Chimera, Riddle of Fire, Yuni & More – 3/1/24

Joe Reid –

• “I Deserve This”: Shirley MacLaine’s Unforgettable Oscar Speech Turns 40 – 3/5/24

Christopher Schobert –

• Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Diving into Dune, Oscar Nights, Kubrick, Blaxploitation, Akerman & More – 3/21/24

Jeff Simon –

• In a year when the Oscars seem ready for seething, Jimmy Kimmel may have an impossible task – 3/7/24
• Anyone who ever loved Village Voice should devour new oral history about it – 3/21/24

Jordan M. Smith –

• R.I.P. David Bordwell, ACE Eddie Awards Announced, Eye Filmmuseum Presents ‘Cosmic Realism’ – 3/4/24
• 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL and THE LAST REPAIR SHOP Win at 96th Oscars, Hot Docs Issue Urgent Appeal for Support – 3/11/24
• How the PRESS Act Effects Doc Filmmakers, Up Series Voted Most Influential UK TV Show of Last 50 Years – 3/18/24
• Archival Producers Alliance on AI & Factual Trends 2024 – 3/25/24

2 Film Critics –

• 2 Film Critics Goes to the Oscars: Our Picks for Best Picture – 2/29/24

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized February 2024: Drive-Away Dolls, How to Have Sex, The Taste of Things & More – 2/2/24

Christopher Schobert –

• Off Beat Cinema at Thirty – 2/27/24

Jeff Simon –

• I’m watching ‘Capote vs. the Swans,’ but not so much for Capote – 2/8/24
• Jon Stewart returns and brings with him a comic sensibility that would make David Letterman proud – 2/22/24

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: Oscar Noms & Sundance Business Sparks Industry Debates – 2/5/24
• R.I.P. Filmmaker Robert M. Young, Oscar Season Controversy – 2/12/24
• Alexei Navalny, Subject of NAVALNY, Dead at 47, 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL Wins Bafta – 2/19/24
• AfroPoP Returns for 16th Season, FOUR DAUGHTERS Tops Spirit Awards, Mati Diop Wins Golden Bear in Berlin – 2/26/24

Joe Reid –

• Barbie Makes History, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Odd Snub Streak, and More Surprising Facts About the 2024 Oscar Nominations – 1/25/24
• The 25 Best Movies on Netflix to Stream Right Now – 1/31/24

Christopher Schobert –

• Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Examining Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Todd Haynes, Alfred Hitchcock, and Charlie Chaplin – 1/2/24

Jeff Simon –

• From age 9 to 61, Jodie Foster has never stopped being real – 1/19/24

Jordan M. Smith –

• Filmmaker John Pilger Passed at 84, 2024 Creative Emmy Award Winners, BAFTA Awards Longlist – 1/8/24
• 32 SOUNDS Tops Cinema Eye Honors, Sundance 2024 About to Commence, SXSW Reveals Film & TV Program – 1/15/24
• Sundance 2024 Brings Big Debuts, Industry Debates & Funding Opportunities – 1/22/24
• 2024 Oscar Nominations Revealed, Sundance Wraps Up, Kickstarter’s Long Story Short – 1/29/24

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized December 2023: The Zone of Interest, Poor Things, The Iron Claw & More – 12/4/23

Christopher Schobert –

• December Medley: An Ontario film walk, a dash of Misery, and the musical Waitress – 12/1/23

Jeff Simon –

• Taylor Swift’s Time magazine cover is another sign of her seemingly endless influence – 12/14/23

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: Doc Producers Call for AI Guardrails, the Rise of the Docu-Comedy, 2023 Gotham Awards Winners – 12/4/23
• Monday Memo: 2024 Sundance Lineup Announced, SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD Wins at European Film Awards – 12/11/23
• Monday Memo: IDA Documentary Awards, DOC to Celebrate 40 Years, Berlinale Announces First 2024 Titles – 12/18/23

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized November 2023: May December, Fallen Leaves, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt & More – 11/3/23

Joe Reid –

• A Good Weekend for Miss Priss – 11/7/23
• MCU Drafters Take a Marv-‘L’ – 11/14/23
• Spiders, Snakes, and Trolls: It’s a Very VMFL Thanksgiving – 11/22/23
• It’s Finally Trophy Time for the MFL – 11/29/23

Christopher Schobert –

• Strike zone: Even with SAG picketing, TIFF is a success – 11/1/23
• Local Bills Film Premieres – 11/27/23

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: 17th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Nomineees, IDA Enterprise Doc Fund Grants, Catapult Film Fund Awards Dev Funding – 11/20/23

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized October 2023: The Killer, Anatomy of a Fall, The Royal Hotel & More – 10/5/23

Matthew Passantino –

• In the dark – 10/18/23

Joe Reid –

• A Mea Culpa for Innocent Mistakes – 10/2/23
• The Exorcist: Believer’s Unfortunately Low Box Office and Oppenheimer’s Surprisingly Low Uptake – 10/11/23
• Next Year’s Oscars Already Have a Complex Relationship With Nostalgia – 10/13/23
• Taylor Swift’s Box Office Domination Era Has Begun – 10/18/23
• First Marty Hit the Box Office, Then the Gotham Awards Pandered to Big Barbie – 10/25-23
• One, Two, Freddy’s Coming for the Movies Fantasy League – 10/31/23

Christopher Schobert –

• Casting Buffalo holds first expo, farewell to Cultivate, a film for Hoke, and time for BIFF – 10/1/23

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: News & Documentary Emmys, More Funding & Development Opportunities, Doc Censorship in Turkey – 10/2/23
• Monday Memo: IndieWire Announces Art of the Doc Screening Series, PBS/Firelight William Greaves Production Fund Recipients – 10/9/23
• Monday Memo: New Digital Security Platform for Doc Filmmakers, AmDoc to Honor Darcy McKinnon – 10/16/23

Jared Mobarak –

• Jared’s TIFF 2023 Reviews
• Posterized September 2023: Rotting in the Sun, Fair Play, Perpetrator & More – 9/1/23

Joe Reid –

• The Game is Getting Messy and Festive – 9/8/23
• We’re Pitting Podcasters Against Each Other – 9/26/23
• What We Lose When We Lose Netflix DVDs – 9/29/23

Christopher Schobert –

• Film lover’s guide to Toronto (beginning with TIFF) – 9/1/23
• Ranking the films of TIFF23 – 9/15/23

Jeff Simon –

• Free jazz saxophonist Charles Gayle left his mark before he ‘left town’ – 9/15/23
• In music, books and acting, WNY natives are having a moment – 9/28/23

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: R.I.P. Nancy Buirski, Fall Festivals Begin to Ramp Up – 9/4/23
• TIFF 2023 in Full Swing, Harvard’s Doc Inititive Fellows Revealed, Independent Lens Fall Slate Announced – 9/11/23
• Fall Festival Bonanza, Grierson Trust Doc Awards Nominees, Critics Choice Doc Awards Honorees – 9/18/23
• Doc Funding Developments, Current Doc Sales Market, IDFA 2023 Initial Program Announcements – 9/25/23