Features might get all the glitzy attention, but short films are the backbone of the cinematic world. From Martin Scorsese (“The Big Shave,” 1967) to Wes Anderson (“Bottle Rocket,” 1994) to ...

In 2025, lead organizer Brown Thomas, executive director Elle Shaw, and programming director Lauren Reid Brown (Brown Thomas’ mother) received just over 1,300 submissions for Salute. The staff, which ...

The beauty of film as art is that it contains a variety of forms. It can be a fictional, narrative story that springs out of the imagination of a writer, or a documentary that details historical ...

Gregory Kasunich is the director of the short film "The Heart of Texas," which he co-wrote with the film's star, Lauren Noll. The film plays this week at the Coronado Island Film Festival. In the ...

Since he emerged on the film scene more than 20 years ago, Zhang Yuan has established himself as one of the leading figures of China's sixth-generation directors -- independent filmmakers exploring ...

Kat Hughes is a UK born film critic and interviewer who has a passion for horror films. An editor for THN, Kat is also a Rotten Tomatoes Approved Critic. She has bylines with Dread Central, Arrow ...