‘Blitz’ Editor Peter Sciberras on Cutting for Hope and Reality
Acclaimed Editor Peter Sciberras first broke through with David Michod’s Aussie classic, The Rover. From there, Sciberras edited the painfully...
David Phillips has been a Senior Writer for The Contending from its inception on 8/26/2024. He is a writer for film and TV and creator of the Reframe series, devoted to looking at films from the past through a modern lens. Before coming to The Contending, David wrote for Awards Daily in the same capacity from August 2018 to August 2024. He has covered the Oscars in person (2024), as well as the Virginia Film Festival, and served as a juror for both the short and the full-length narrative film categories for the Heartland Film Festival(2024) He is a proud member of GALECA and the IFJA.
Acclaimed Editor Peter Sciberras first broke through with David Michod’s Aussie classic, The Rover. From there, Sciberras edited the painfully...
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Bear with me here; I don’t mean what I’m about to say entirely as a pejorative. Gladiator II is a...
Jack Huston first came to prominence playing Richard, the war veteran with half a face in Boardwalk Empire. It became...
The 37th annual Virginia Film Festival (VAFF), a University of Virginia program held yearly in Charlottesville, VA, has announced its...