Auditioning for the Camera with Samora Smallwood

Who’s ready for Forest City Film Festival 2020? To kick off the FCFF Industry Sessions this year, we’re hosting an acting workshop by award-winning actress, Co-Chair of ACTRA’s Diversity Committee, and Founder of The Actor’s Work Studio, Samora Smallwood!  You can catch her in Star Trek Discovery, Star Trek Short Treks, The Expanse, American Gods, […]

For this week’s Forest City Youth Film Festival Alumni Spotlight we’re celebrating Ranya Treesh, with special guest Rianne Treesh.

For this week’s Forest City Youth Film Festival Alumni Spotlight, we’re celebrating Vanessa Solivio who submitted a stop-motion animation called Caladenia Melanema. Her gorgeous film took home the second-place prize in the animation category at the 2019 Forest City Youth Film Festival. Please go check out her film here – you won’t be disappointed!

For today’s spotlight, we’re introducing Queena Liu! With her fresh eye, camera skills, producing chops and original imagery, Queena is going to kill it out there. We cannot wait to see what she comes up with next.

Over the 2010s, the popularity of documentary films has exploded, with easy access to all sorts of fascinating docs on platforms like Netflix. In the past decade, documentaries have helped expose the corruption in the US government in CITIZENFOUR, and even largely contributed to destroying SeaWorld’s business in BLACKFISH. Here are 10 of my favourite […]

For this week’s Forest City Youth Film Festival Alumni Spotlight we’re celebrating Ethan Hickey — the winner of FCYFF 2019’s Most Enterprising Young Filmmaker Award.