“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
Hot Docs 2025 — When a Programmer’s Credits Creep onto The Screen
This article was prompted by yet another recent anonymous email from Indonesia. Please keep contacting us with information. Dear Film Industry Watch team, This is another voice from Indonesia that got moved by reading ur articles and knowing th
A Voice from Indonesia: A Filmmaker Exposes Feudalism and Fear in the Film Industry
In response to one of our latest articles, an anonymous filmmaker from Indonesia has stepped forward with a harrowing account of how nepotism, intimidation, and “feudalistic” power structures dominate her local film industry. In a candid letter s