Shadows in the Sun: Aung Phyoe’s ‘Fruit Gathering’ and the New Wave of Myanmar’s Queer Cinema
The landscape of contemporary world cinema is often defined by the voices that manage to break through the silence of censorship and systemic oppression. At the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a new and vital dispatch arrived from a region…
Cinematic Portraits of a Drifting Generation: Martina Buchelová’s “Lover, Not a Fighter”
The landscape of contemporary Eastern European cinema has long been associated with austere realism and somber historical reflections. However, a new wave of filmmakers is emerging to challenge these tropes, trading grim aesthetics for deadpan wit and…
Revolutionizing the Silhouette: Foundry Unveils SmartRoto for Nuke
In the high-stakes world of visual effects, rotoscoping has long been the industry’s "necessary evil"—a labor-intensive, time-consuming process that acts as the backbone of compositing. Whether it is isolating an actor for a digital background…