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Filmmaker Kevin Wilson, Jr. on finding your way to the heart https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/filmmaker-k…

Filmmaker Kevin Wilson, Jr. on finding your way to the heart – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker Kevin Wilson, Jr. discusses art that makes an impact, the tough mentorship of Spike Lee, and showing up to set dressed in the way he feels best.

I think we might have locked ourselves into a professionalization trap. Shocking revelation: It's capitalism's fault.
(Original title: The Professionalism Trap)
https://tante.cc/2025/09/24/the-professionalism-trap/

The Professionalism Trap
I’m in the process of rewriting a talk I gave a few weeks ago in order to record it and publish it online. When I mentioned that to a friend who’s a filmmaker and knows how lighting and all that works he offered to help me doing it “right” so it doesn’t look like shit. […]

Google says users created 100M videos using its AI filmmaking tool Flow since its May launch; Flow leverages Veo 3 and focuses on maintaining visual consistency (Katelyn Chedraoui/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof

Google's AI Filmmaker Program Flow Helped Creators Make 100 Million Videos
Google confirmed the 100 million milestone exclusively to CNET. Here's what's coming next for Flow and its AI-assisted creators.

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov promoted to battalion commander: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/15/ukrainian-filmmaker-oleh-sentsov-promoted.html

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith discusses the gift of failure, making small moves, and the enduring wisdom of Sun Ra.

Musician, writer, and filmmaker Rachel Brown on having a life outside of your creative world – #CreativeLife https://thecreativeindependent.…

Musician, writer, and filmmaker Rachel Brown on having a life outside of your creative world – The Creative Independent
Musician, writer and filmmaker Rachel Brown discusses how important it is to balance a life outside of artmaking, what it means to work with the right kind of collaborators and how seeking perfection can hold you back

Researchers find spyware on phones belonging to Kenyan filmmakers https://therecord.media/researchers-spyware-kenya-filmmaker-phone

REAL ENEMIES is an evening-length, multimedia, jazz-fueled exploration of American paranoia. This innovative marriage of music-theater and hybrid nonfiction marks the first collaboration between composer Darcy James Argue, filmmaker Peter Nigrini and writer Isaac Butler, who together chronicle a shadow history of post-war America that may—or may not—be true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpXE-aZ-xhA

Netflix's Ted Sarandos and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro plan to launch a stop-motion studio for training and research, located at the Gobelins school in Paris (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/ted-sa…

Ted Sarandos and Guillermo del Toro Unveil Stop-Motion Studio Plans
Guillermo del Toro and Netflix boss Ted Sarandos have unveiled plans for a stop-motion studio which will be built at France's Gobelins school.

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community …

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith discusses the gift of failure, making small moves, and the enduring wisdom of Sun Ra.

John Oliver discusses the Trump administration’s promise to deport one million immigrants,
what the follow through on that promise looks like in practice,
what the actual rules are about masked police arresting civilians across the country,
and some stuff about filmmaker Dean Cain.
(It’s ok, you can Google him, we don’t expect you to recognize the name)

John Oliver: Immigration Enforcement
John Oliver discusses the Trump administration’s promise to deport one million immigrants, what the follow through on that promise looks like in practice, what the actual rules are about masked police arresting civilians across the country, and some stuff ...

This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.
https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-i…

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 7:
Lauren Beukes ("rhymes with mucus" as she likes to say)
SciFi novellist, filmmaker, journalist and LGBTQ-ally from S.Africa.
I loved Zoo City, Moxyland and The Shining Girls and I need to catch up on her newer ones. It was fun to meet her at the Edinburgh Int'l Book Festival a few years ago.

A profile of Josh Wallace Kerrigan, also known as Neural Viz, a filmmaker using AI tools from Midjourney to Runway to create a cinematic universe (Christopher Beam/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-future-of-ai-media-parody-of-the-apocalypse-g…

The Future of AI Isn't Just Slop
Behold Neural Viz, the first great cinematic universe of the AI era. It's from a guy named Josh.

Turning a paddock into a forest in just 24 hours - a filmmaker's inspiring climate action story. Individual and community efforts like tree planting can make a big impact in fighting climate change. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Eros and filmmaker Aanand L. Rai clash over plans to re-release the Tamil-language version of 2013 Indian film Raanjhanaa with an AI-enabled alternative ending (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/eros-aanand-l-…

Eros-Aanand Rai Dispute Over AI-Altered 'Raanjhanaa' Ending Escalates
Eros International and director Aanand L. Rai clash over AI-altered 'Raanjhanaa' ending, with both sides citing legal rights and creative ethics.