FilmStack Daily Digest

A producer on over 70 films, studio exec on over 60, Ted launched Amazon’s foray into feature film production. His memoir/handbook "HopeForFilm" is available for your reading pleasure.

Columnist, The Ankler

ROUGH CUTS: a home for the ambitious cinephile

Entertainment/technology attorney at Feig/Finkel & freelance journo (jhandel.news, frmr. Puck, frmr. Hollywood Reporter). All opinions my own.

Media's Official Unofficial Cartographer

Marketing @ Kinema, Co-founder @ GOLD Comedy, romcom enthusiast, always carrying Aquaphor

are you curious? do you lead with love? a newsletter about all things art

Cinematic Humanist with decades shooting movies and teaching movies. I've helped hundreds of students find their cinematic confidence through my mentorship in classroom and set, teaching at three Universities. https://www.alanfilmmaker.com/

Karin Chien is a producer & distributor. Current roles include Art & Action, dGenerate Films, Distribution Advocates, and Nevada City Filmmaker Residency.

Oscar-Nominated, Peabody & Emmy-winning filmmaker. Writing about nonfiction cinema, place-based storytelling, and the in-between moments.

Curator to a Lost Generation

Writing, directing, & producing NonDē films. Organizing the NonDē 50 Films Project, contributing to FilmStack Daily Digest, and making my feature directorial debut in 2026.

Data journalist and pop culture lover.

I'm an award-winning filmmaker who’s obsessed with movies, politics, history, and basketball. Whether I’m breaking down a film or analyzing the world around us, I’m always looking for the bigger picture.

Award-winning writer and filmmaker. Also a poet, essayist, performer and singer.

Artist & Entrepreneur. Caveday co-founder.

NYC filmmaker and NYU film teacher.

I'm Kelli McNeil-Yellen. Working screenwriter/producer & 20+year marketing/PR pro who made the leap to filmmaking with my award-winning film DARUMA now on platforms. Founder Marketing & PR for Indie Film. DM to work w/me on your film's PR & marketing

Film producer and Co-Founder of Distribution Advocates.

Anthony Kaufman is a film programmer, film journalist, and film teacher.

I’m Shawna Carroll, a Film and TV Post Producer. I help independent filmmakers avoid the post-production disasters that kill 97% of indie films—before they shoot AND after.

Showrunner assistant + screenwriter, on the 2022 blacklist of the most popular unproduced scripts. Social media marketing + pitch decks for film and TV. Next up - selling a script / getting staffed!

Entertainment Marketing, Transmedia Storytelling, and making sense of both for you!

Film producer, Forensic Films. Credits include "The Assistant," "What Happened Was...", "Gummo," "Raising Victor Vargas," "Saving Face" and more. Co-founded and was long-time Editor of Filmmaker Magazine. Former Programming Director of The Kitchen.

Film. Music. Dogs+Bacon. Worked on projects like The Crash Reel, Clemency, Bring Your Own Brigade & How To Change Your Mind. More at https://flow.page/gnp

Founder and curator of Black Women Directors, a digital library.

D.L. Holmes is a filmmaker and writer. Founded Three Left Feet Media to write about the stories behind the movies, cinema history, and other aspects of filmmaking.

Ex-film marketer who believes films belong to everyone, not the discourse™. Founded That Final Scene to write about their endings, evolved to explore how cinema shapes the lives we live. Contact: [email protected]

Former @FilmFestivalAlliance, current @FutureFilmCoalition, always @TwistFilms. These days, I'm thinking about the distribution crisis, anti-trust remedies, and how to get kids into movie theaters.

Cinema-maker. Former Co-Executive Director of Filmmakers Alliance.

Essayist, Filmmaker, author, and lover of stories. This is a home for my art.

Carolina Groppa is an Emmy-nominated producer and creator of Angle on Producers, a podcast with 150+ episodes exploring the paths of producers and magic makers in Hollywood. While the journey can feel lonely, you are not alone.

I'm making my first documentary at 62, Voices for Change, with my kid Ray, a talented filmmaker at 19. I'm writing about this journey here.

Beantown economic sociologist turned screenwriter and producer building alternative business models. Co-founder @ Intrinsic Entertainment Collaborative.

Founder and CEO Seed&Spark. Producer, Good&Yum.

Curious filmmaker, adventuring journalist.

Writer/ Director of nasty thrillers about how we live now.

Exploring change in the film industry

Skip Berry is a former magazine and newspaper journalist, the author of several nonfiction books for kids and adults, a screenwriter, and a poet.

Director, Producer, Writer. THREE PEOPLE IN THE WOODS (Upcoming),MENDING THE LINE, INFAMOUS, LAYOVER. Fly-Fisherman. Writing about filmmaking, culture, mindset, and other musings.

mothering and movies

17 year old high school junior, film journalist and critic

Expect lots of FilmStack and then random thoughts on tv, movies, theater, books, and life

Head of Filmmaker Relations & Concierge Services @ GATHR Blumhouse/K Period Screamwriting Lab Fellow 2023 // Producer of Miss Juneteenth // Sundance Fellow

Making art and making a living in documentary film. I've directed 8 feature docs including LISTENING TO KENNY G, CONFESSIONS OF A GOOD SAMARITAN, HAIL SATAN?, NUTS! and OUR NIXON. I choose to LOL. I am also a sought-after consultant and educator.

Distribution Advocates works to collectively reclaim power for independent storytellers in the current systems of distribution and exhibition.

A documentary & social impact campaign about the complicated dynamic between marine conservation and mass tourism told through the stories of locals and tourists in Cozumel, Mexico.

Editorial Manager, Filmmaker Magazine. Freelance film writer, various other outlets.

The official Substack of the Slamdance Film Festival reporting on the future of filmmaking

Filmmaker, Aaron Strand. Currently roadshowing my debut feature film 'Withdrawal'.