Inside the ‘Crisis’ Facing U.K. Indie Film Distribution
Months after receiving solid reviews in Cannes — where it premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar — Sandhya Suri’s fiction feature debut “Santosh” was selected to represent the U.K. in the Oscars’ international film category. The news gave the film the honor of following in the footsteps “The Zone of Interest,” which became first U.K. […]
How Indie Studio Black Bear Ushered ‘Sing Sing’ to the Big Screen
Before “Sing Sing” became a critical hit and awards darling, it almost failed to launch. The film, which shows the positive impact that the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) program has on a group of incarcerated men, features Colman Domingo as a playwright incarcerated after being wrongfully convicted of murder. Domingo is one of […]