“I Am Scared for My Life and My Career”: Cannes Critics’ Week’s Next Step Studio Indonesia and the Same Closed Loop FIW Has Been Warning About
From a country of 285 million, the same handful of names keep resurfacing across labs, juries, co-productions, and Cannes-linked selection pipelines. By FIW staff Film Industry Watch recently received an email from an anonymous industry source about
Inside Kosovo’s Film Funding Loop: The Same People Train, Curate, Judge – and Win
A Documented Network of Overlapping Roles Between KCC, DokuFest and a Cluster of Repeat Beneficiaries (2024–2025) By Film Industry Watch and Kosovar Film Industry Insiders For years, Kosovo’s film sector has celebrated rapid international success
Friends Reviewing Friends: Conflicts of Interest in Israeli press & Cinema
By Film Industry Watch Staff – with information provided by readers The Israeli film industry likes to talk about diversity, bold voices and creative risk. On paper, it is a vibrant scene. In reality, it is a tiny, self-reinforcing circuit of i
Alleged Conflicts, Zero Consequences: How Cannes Insiders Stay in Control
By Film Industry Watch Why Festival Gatekeepers Remain Unchecked Despite Alleged Conflicts of Interest Over the past few years, Film Industry Watch has reported on what appear to be alleged structural conflicts of interest inside major international
Cannes Critics’ Week’s “Next Step Studio Indonesia”: A New Pipeline or a New Conflict of Interest?
By Film Industry Watch – October 2025 Thanks to a comment left on a related article we’ve been informed that Cannes Critics’ Week has announced Next Step Studio Indonesia, a filmmaker incubator launching in 2026 that will produce four short
CANNES 2025: Un Certain Regard, letter from concerned filmmakers (UPDATE 1)
We received the below email from concerned filmmakers, and we’re posting it as is: update post festival The anonymous letter from concerned filmmakers specifically highlighted potential conflicts of interest involving jury president Molly Manni