Female Filmmakers: I AM Rising

Female filmmakers on the rise are making waves at festivals and closing deals with industry giants to bring their original perspectives to the mainstream. It’s not their gender that has everyone talking, but their fresh take on the American teen experience, family loss, love and even voodoo.

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Taika Waititi: I AM JoJo Rabbit

#TIFFMasters Taika Waititi premiered JoJo Rabbit at the Toronto Film Festival, which just won the TIFF People’s Audience Award. JoJo Rabbit is a Nazi satire and black comedy about a young boy, Jojo, a member of the Hitler Youth, who discovers his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the attic.

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Joaquin Phoenix & Todd Phillips: I AM Joker

#VeniceMasters Todd Phillips's character-driven DC film Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix has just won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival; the Golden Lion, awarded by a competition jury lead by Argentine auteur, Lucrecia Martel. Phillips and Phoenix reveal how they created the new Joker origin story from scratch.

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Once Upon A Time In Hollywood vs. The Real Bruce Lee 

#CannesMasters Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is Quentin Tarantino’s 9th film and the most hotly anticipated movie of 2019. Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee, ex-wife Linda Lee Cadwell, as well as his friend and NBA legend, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, have all criticised Tarantino for his “Chinesey” and “one-dimensional” caricature of Lee.

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