Bulletin — Evgenii Bakirov, Whitney Chen, Justin Paviolo-Knowles, Dougal Wilson...
DIRECTORS' LIBRARY
January 09, 2026
MUSIC VIDEO
Evgenii Bakirov directs ‘Wind, Snow, and Heat’ for Husky.
A lone survivor of a nuclear disaster searches for his missing family using a homemade RC car.
BRANDED CONTENT
Whitney Chen and Justin Paviolo-Knowles co-direct ‘Project Vend’ for Anthropic.
What happens when you give AI access to running a business?
CAMPAIGN
Dougal Wilson directs ‘Silent Films’ for Telstra.
A series of black-and-white short films to remind cinema-goers to turn their phones on silent at the theatre.
Footnotes
56 Directors Pick Their Favorite Films of 2025 — IndieWire reached out to thier favorite filmmakers to celebrate the year in motion pictures.
INDIEWIRE
Room Tone 2025 — Criterion Collection’s annual montage of footage from the end of our on-camera interviews with filmmakers, critics, and scholars.
CRITERION
Larry Gagosian, Marilyn Minter, and More on Their Favorite Art World Movies — Artsy spoke with 10 art world figures, from legendary gallerist Larry Gagosian to artist Marilyn Minter, to compile a movie list for anyone interested in the art world.
ARTSY
Cover-Up: Laura Poitras on her Spiky Love Letter to a Journalistic Hero — In her new film with Mark Obenhaus, the All the Beauty and the Bloodshed director profiles reporter Seymour Hersh, whose Pulitzer prizewinning work has uncovered more than half a century of American impunity.
ANOTHER
Screening of ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ at the UN Headquarters in New York — The screening was followed by a panel discussion with the director, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania.
UNITED NATIONS
Kathryn Bigelow, Catastrophe Connoisseur — At the Intrepid Museum, the ‘House of Dynamite’ director chats with an arms-control expert about duck and cover, radioactive subs, and how close we are to the end.
THE NEW YORKER
To Save and Project: The 22nd MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation — MoMA presents the 22nd annual edition of To Save and Project, an international festival dedicated to celebrating newly preserved film treasures from archives, studios, and independent filmmakers.
MoMA
The Miami Design District & EDGLRD Reimagine a New Creative Future — The Miami Design District has partnered with EDGLRD, founded by acclaimed filmmaker Harmony Korine, to unveil a pioneering short film that reimagines the neighborhood’s future.
HAUTE LIVING
Clubhouse Conversations: Die My Love — Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC is joined by interviewer Shelly Johnson, ASC to discuss his work on ‘Die, My Love’ with director Lynne Ramsay.
AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
ADDICTED Podcast: Henry-Alex Rubin — Henry-Alex is a French-American filmmaker raised between New York and Paris. A Columbia University grad mentored by James Mangold, he broke out with ‘Murderball’, a winner at Sundance and nominee for the Academy Award.
ADDICTED SERIES
The effect of TikTok on box office, discussed at the Sorrento Industry Days — Distributors are increasingly adapting their campaigns to platform codes, now one of the most decisive instruments in film marketing, as highlighted by an Italian study.
CINEUROPA
Don’t Call It a Comeback: How Independent Film Will Be Rewired in 2026 — 10 inflection points map how independent film is redefining success, sustainability, and creative power in 2026.
INDIEWIRE
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