Bulletin — Tyrone & Frank Lebon, Juliet Klottrup, Sharif Abd el Mawla...
DIRECTORS' LIBRARY
February 09, 2026
CAMPAIGN
Tyrone and Frank Lebon co-direct ‘Hollywood Cream’ for W Magazine.
Starring Emma Stone, A$AP Rocky, George Clooney, Mia Goth, Sean Penn, Tessa Thompson, Alexander Skarsgård, Sydney Sweeney, Jodie Foster, Wagner Moura, and more.
MUSIC VIDEO
Juliet Klottrup directs ‘Sisters With Me’ for Tom Misch.
MUSIC VIDEO
Sharif Abd el Mawla directs ‘In Search of Yang’ for Yīn Yīn.
Starring Sam Spruell and Erza Sejdiu.
Footnotes
2026 Sundance Film Festival Reveals Short Film Program Award Winners — Filmmakers representing the 54 shorts selected for the 2026 Festival gathered at The Park in Park City, Utah, for an event celebrating short-form storytelling.
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ↗︎
The Filmmaker Who Trains Her Lens on American Power — Laura Poitras talks about the BAFTA-nominated documentary that took her decades to make, Snowden’s secrets, and life on a US terror watchlist.
BLOOMBERG ↗︎
A Whole New Experience of Kubrick — The Harvard Film Archive will present all 13 of Kubrick’s feature films, as well as his early documentaries, and two more films to which he contributed, all on 35mm film. The screenings will run alongside the course “Cinema of Stanley Kubrick,” taught by Justin Weir.
THE HARVARD GAZETTE ↗︎
Christopher Nolan Wants to Know Where All the Hollywood Jobs Are, Too — In his first interview as president of the Directors Guild of America, Nolan called a recent downturn in employment at the union “very troubling.”
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ↗︎
The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films — The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.
THE ATLANTIC ↗︎
TikTok’s ‘Nihilistic Penguin’ Meme, Explained — A clip from Werner Herzog’s 2007 documentary ‘Encounters at the End of the World’ went viral at the beginning of 2026, depicting the doomed fate of a strangely stubborn penguin.
FORBES ↗︎
Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece — Will an A.I. restoration of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic?
THE NEW YORKER ↗︎
Requiem For a Film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI Revolutionary War Series is a Horror — The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in “AI slop” with a new online series.
THE GUARDIAN ↗︎
The Luma AI Brief — Turn your best unmade advertising script into a real commercial with Luma AI for the chance to have it run and entered in the 2026 Cannes International Festival of Creativity. If the commercial wins a Gold Lion, you will win a share of $1,000,000.
LUMA AI ↗︎
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