Curry Barker to Receive IndieWire’s Inaugural Future of Filmmaking Award

After struggling to break through on the festival circuit, Matthew James Thompson packed his debut feature, "Handle With Care," into a mysterious case that's been bringing strangers together ever since.

The directing duo's development as artists and parents mirrored that of Annie Murphy and Cooper Raiff's characters.

The proposed decree divides oversight between an internal studio monitor, an independent trustee, state attorneys general, and a board of journalists. Here’s what each can do — and where their power stops.

In the Ali Hazelwood adaptation, Marsh plays best friend to leading lady Lili Reinhart, but she's no second fiddle. As the rising comedian tells IndieWire, she knows this kind of role is rare, and she really knows how to make it her own.

The "Obsession" writer/director will accept the award at IndieWire's Future of Filmmaking Summit on October 17 in Los Angeles.

“Shōgun” breakout Moeka Hoshi plays a haunted ronin ghostbuster in Dave Boyle's nifty and unnerving Hokkaido chiller.

Half of the director's 12 features were financed and distributed by major studios, and some — like "Minnie and Moskowitz," screening next week at the New Beverly — are as uncompromising as his scrappiest indies.

The former film mogul was convicted on a count of criminal sexual assault against Miriam Haley in June 2025.