Sept 12 Toronto film Festival
Month: August 2023
Can’t wait to see Frank Harts in this epic historical biopic
Congrats to Emily Davis
NYFF CURRENTS
LOOPHOLE
Jordan Strafer, 2023, U.S., 25m
World Premiere
Appropriating the aesthetics of 1990s legal thrillers and NC-17 potboilers, Jordan Strafer’s film serves up a dark, parafictional take on the courtroom drama, in which semi-fictionalized proceedings surrounding an actual sexual assault case mutate into a Grand Guignol of Americanness and white privilege. With its mise-en-scène of beige interiors and desaturated fashions, LOOPHOLE braids the theatrical with the procedural amid a hazy atmosphere of systemic corruption, media voyeurism, and entrenched power.
Strike News
More than 100 days into the writers strike, fears have kept mounting over the possibility of studios deploying generative artificial intelligence to completely pen scripts. But intellectual property law has long said that copyrights are only granted to works created by humans, and that doesn’t look like it’s changing anytime soon.A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection. The ruling was delivered in an order turning down Stephen Thaler’s bid challenging the government’s position refusing to register works made by AI. Copyright law has “never stretched so far” to “protect works generated by new forms of technology operating absent any guiding human hand,” U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found.
Frank Harts directing
Essential Reading
Congrats to film maker Frank Harts
Thanks for this great honor Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology A superb film festival finale for #twowongsshortfilm Thrilled to make the next one this Fall with an amazing person and Emmy-Nominated producer Devin E. Haqq Another KILLER script and cast lined up!Two Wongs Reviews: https://filmthreat.com/reviews/two-wongs/https://bitpixtv.news/…/may-2023-hollyshorts-monthly…/Two brothers from Queens travel to Maine to avenge the murder of their mother, beaten to death during an Asian hate crime spree.