What Venice & Toronto Revealed About The Current State Of World Cinema

After a relatively buoyant if not exemplary Cannes, this year’s autumn festival season is expected to be a bellwether of the current health of the global film industry. Do we still have an independent sales business? Do we have many strong awards contenders, despite Hollywood strikes and other disruptions? Will box office ever recover; does it matter if it doesn’t, and what role do film festivals play in this changing landscape? Which regions of the world are thriving cinematically, or at least creatively, and which are struggling?

This free edition of Streamlined looks at some of those questions as Venice and Toronto film festivals draw to a close. Going forward, Streamlined’s free editions will continue to include news roundups and festival wraps, while the paid editions, the Streamlined Guides, will contain territory reports, talent guides and in-depth analysis. Coming soon in Streamlined Guides – a report on the top writers and showrunners in India’s booming web series industry. If…