So you want to be a filmmaker. Here’s something to keep etched away in your mind, courtesy of writer-director-producer Gabriel Cowan: ‘Just do something’ and ‘make it work.’

Those phrases have kept Gabriel Cowan going for years. He probably felt thus gratified, then, when passing on this advice to an aspiring filmmaker at a recent Q&A here at the Tribeca Festival.

As part of my ongoing series on Women Filmmakers I got to meet Gillian Greene after the screening of her feature-length debut “Murder of a Cat." She proved to be as charming as her film was compelling and humorous.

Greene is the the wife of director Sam Raimi and the daughter of legendary actor Lorne Greene, so her connection to show-business is deep. But although she expresses some pride about it, she's clearly emerged as

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Kiwi helmer Jane Campion will preside over this year's jury, as was previously announced by the Cannes Festival. The list of her co-jurors was released today, showing a cosmopolitan, if homogeneous (professionally speaking) mix of actors and directors hailing from the U.S., France, China, Korea, Denmark, Iran, France and Mexico. They form a compelling international cohort representative of countries in which

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Ever heard of the canuxploitation genre? The social media planet just did and it's been lighting up with howls of "Wolfcop" ever since the trailer for it came out yesterday. "Wolfcop," part-chainsaw massacre part-incredible hulk and part-robocop is silly and demented and has "double-bill" written all over it. It's made in Canada (Saskatchewan, to be precise) and has characters named as "tough henchman" and "trashy woman." So put

YSL is mega-hot. This year not one but two different [...]