Bulletin + Assembly — Rémi Belleville, Ivan Olita, Teresa Carril...
DIRECTORS' LIBRARY
October 10, 2025
MUSIC VIDEO
Rémi Belleville directs ‘Pas Encore (Not Yet)’ for Béesau.
On a forgotten American island, two teenagers chase escape as their dreams drift like a raft without sails.
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Ivan Olita directs ‘Man Of The Cave’.
Capturing the daily rituals and solitary existence of a modern-day cave dweller, as he balances a traditional life in nature with the unexpected rise of his online fame.
MUSIC VIDEO
Teresa Carril directs ‘Bajo de la piel (Under The Skin)’ for Milo J.
A tribute to Argentina’s cultural legacy, to its scars and to its memory.
Footnotes
Sora App: Forget about plot-based media! — The new Sora app is quite impressive and has large implications across AI, social media, & entertainment.
INTELLIGENT JELLO
Ones to Watch 2025 — Presenting 65 of the most exciting new creative talents from around the world, selected by It’s Nice That.
IT’S NICE THAT
The Cinematographer That Kubrick, Kendrick, Spike, Beyoncé, Hype Williams, and Luca Guadagnino Have in Common — ‘After the Hunt’ cinematographer Malik Hassan Sayeed on shooting New York for Kubrick, the battle for ‘Belly’, and how he got the craziest shot in ‘Clockers’.
GQ
Paul Thomas Anderson & Steven Spielberg — Director Paul Thomas Anderson discusses his new film, ‘One Battle After Another’, with fellow Director Steven Spielberg in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles.
DGA PODCAST
The 2025 CICLOPE Award-winners — This year’s Winners were selected by an expert panel of top industry talent, comprised of 200 jurors from around the world. They deliberated over more than 1,800 entries across 44 categories, before the Executive Jury met in Berlin to cast their final votes.
CICLOPE
Ava DuVernay’s Array Sets 2025 Lineup For Cinema & Conversation Series — Offering a global and intergenerational lens to explore themes of migration, resistance, gender, idenity and collective liberation.
DEADLINE
Richard Linklater’s Uncompromising Artists — In two new historical films, ‘Blue Moon’ and ‘Nouvelle Vague’, the director explores the challenges of staying true to a creative vision.
THE NEW YORKER
AFI FEST 2025 Announces Full Festival Lineup — The American Film Institute unveils the full lineup of 161 films screening at this year’s AFI FEST, taking place in Los Angeles from October 22-26.
AFI
New Tech and VFX Advances Spark Commercials and Short-form — It’s not just advances in traditional VFX software that are transforming advertising, it’s the rise of emerging technologies like generative AI that is reshaping the approach to short-form content creation.
VFX VOICE
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