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Annonces, entrevues et récits de notre équipe et des rédacteurs de notre communauté.

A few honest notes from the people scoring your film.

Programming a schedule is a puzzle with a lot more constraints than most filmmakers realize.

It's more structured — and less about personal taste — than most people assume.

A festival this size runs on people who never appear on screen.

Credits in this field tend to be scattered — here's how to make them read as a coherent career.

Writing "down" to kids is the single most common mistake in the field — and the easiest to fix.

Unpaid opportunities aren't all equal. Here's a rough filter.

The biggest audience most children's films will ever have isn't the festival crowd — it's a classroom.

Age ratings are a starting point, not the whole answer.

The fastest way to teach a kid to watch critically is to have them make something first.

Folding Indigenous work into a general program tends to flatten exactly what makes it distinct.

Three things that show up again and again in strong Indigenous youth submissions.