TheWrap Screening Series
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‘Americans With No Address’ Team Hopes to Break Misconceptions About Homelessness
TheWrap Screening Series: “There’s a general perception that everybody on the streets are drug addicts or have mental issues. And that is just not true,” says director Julia Verdin
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Maria Bakalova’s Sci-Fi Comedy ‘Triumph’ Tells the ‘Absolutely True Story’ of Psychics and Space Aliens
TheWrap Screening Series: The Oscar-nominated actress says the wild movie tells “a story that makes sense far outside” her native Bulgaria
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RaMell Ross Broke Rules in ‘Nickel Boys’ to Give ‘Agency to People of Color’s Perspective’
TheWrap Screening Series: The director and stars Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson discuss making the film based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel
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How NatGeo’s ‘Queens’ Had to ‘Literally Rip Up the Rule Book’
The Wrap Screening Series: The creative team discussed their nature docuseries, which is the first to explore animal matriarchies in the wild
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TheWrap Screening Series: Best Animated Feature Nominees on Being ‘Dazzled by the Array of Different Styles’ | Video
Kemp Powers, Nick Bruno, Peter Sohn, Pablo Berger and Toshio Suzuki join us to talk about this year’s crop of animated features
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TheWrap Screening Series: Billie Eilish and Finneas Fell in Love With Movie Music Through ‘Social Network’ and ‘American Beauty’ | Video
They joined Best Original Song and Score nominees Diane Warren, Scott George, Laura Karpman and Jerskin Fendrix for a live Q&A
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TheWrap Screening Series: Filmmakers Behind Oscar-Nominated Doc Shorts Praise Unsung Heroes | Video
“It was really about turning a spotlight on these people that work literally in the shadows,” says “The Last Repair Shop” co-director Kris Bowers
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How ‘Four Souls of Coyote’ Used Standing Rock Protests to Tell an Ancient Native American Tale
TheWrap Screening Series: Hungary’s Oscar submission reminds us that “humans are not the crown of creation, they are just one of the created beings,” according to director Áron Gauder
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‘The Debit Card’ Director Hoped Oscar-Qualifying Short Could Expose ‘System’ of Overworked Au Pairs
TheWrap Screening Series: “They are being kept from their family, didn’t get to see their own family and getting paid really badly,” says Thijs Bouman, whose film was joined by “Madeleine,” “Neighbour Abdi” and “The Barber of Little Rock”
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How a Chinese Ghost Tradition Inspired the ‘Marry My Dead Body’ Director
TheWrap Screening Series: Wei-Hao Cheng spoke to TheWrap about his LGBTQ comedy-mystery-thriller that is Taiwan’s Oscar submission
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Why a Former Doctor Used Film to Diagnose Social Problems in ‘Blaga’s Lessons’
“The best treatment starts with a good diagnosis,” director Stephan Komandarev said at TheWrap’s screening of the prize-winning Bulgarian film
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‘American Fiction’ Found Its Roots in Cord Jefferson’s Miserable Pandemic Year | Video
After his TV deal fell through in 2020, the writer-director found a novel that would become his TIFF Audience Award-winning film
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‘1923’ Star Helen Mirren Jokes She Was ‘So Excited’ to Get Into Bed with Harrison Ford: ‘I Had to Pretend to Be Cool’ (Video)
TheWrap Screening Series: The Oscar winner shared the story during a Q&A where she was joined by castmates and members of the crafts team
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How Directors of Oscar-Nominated Doc Shorts Tell Big Stories in Small Packages (Video)
TheWrap Screening Series: The filmmakers sat with TheWrap to talk about their shorts, which tackle climate change, racism and more
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Oscar-Nominated Directors for Best Documentary Detail Why Obsession Leads to Better Stories: ‘You Jump Off a Cliff’ (Video)
TheWrap Screening Series: Oscar nominees Shaunak Sen, Laura Poitras, Sara Dosa, Simon Lereng Wilmont and Daniel Roher join Sharon Waxman for a tell-all talkback
