Bulletin — Maceo Frost, Celine Song, Noel Pendawa...
DIRECTORS' LIBRARY
December 22, 2025
MUSIC VIDEO
Maceo Frost directs ‘AHA’ for BIJI.
A glimpse of the Kurdistan Region where past and present meet through the eyes of its youth, offering an honest portrait of a culture evolving from within.
CAMPAIGN
Celine Song directs ‘Crossroads The Waiting Room’ for Giorgio Armani.
Starring Tecla Insolia, Yuanyuan Tan, Chloe Fineman, Alissa Jung, and Sheila Atim.
CREATIVE SHORTS
Noel Pendawa directs ‘A Day Apart on the Seventeenth’.
Reminded of the Indonesian Independence Day, Laksmi ponders questions of nostalgia and post-colonial western life through the help of ghostly visitations.
Footnotes
The Black List 2025 — Compiled from the suggestions of nearly 500 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to ten of their favorite feature film screenplays that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with 2025, and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year.
THE BLACK LIST
Jay Kelly with Noah Baumbach and Todd Field — Director Noah Baumbach discusses his new film, Jay Kelly, with fellow Director Todd Field in a Q&A at the DGA theater in New York.
DGA PODCAST
Remembering Martin Parr — Martin Parr was one of the few photographers to transcend his medium, writes Simon Bainbridge, becoming not just an internationally-celebrated artist but an instantly-recognisable figure in wider popular culture.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Vimeo Best of the Year 2025 — Explore the most unforgettable, inescapable, unlookawayable shorts of 2025, hand‑selected by the Vimeo Curation Team (blocked in Europe).
VIMEO
Theo Skudra on Going From Drake’s Tour Bus to the Director’s Chair — Theo Skudra speaks about balancing his life on the road as Drake’s personal photographer and tour videographer with his growing commercial and narrative directing career.
LITTLE BLACK BOOK
Relay’s Redesign — Filmhub’s Relay has been redesigned with a bolder brand, new colors, and a redesign featuring genres and collections, making it easier for audiences to find your movies and shows.
RELAY
James Cameron Is Now A Billionaire — With several titanic box office successes—and a third Avatar film expected to gross more than $2 billion, the Oscar-winning director is now in elite company in Hollywood.
FORBES
Mark Fisher: The Slow Cancellation Of The Future — This lecture is part of the project ‘Extended Aesthetic Education’ and held within the event ‘Everything Comes Down to Aesthetics and Political Economy’ at MaMa, Zagreb in 2014.
MAMA ZAGREB
Announcing the Creators Coalition on AI — The Creators Coalition on AI (CCAI) is an agnostic convening organization, born from the necessity for a central hub for cross-industry discussions about how AI is impacting the entertainment industry.
CCAI
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