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Despite of the current strike, Diablo Cody’s skyrocketing career is one of those phenomenons that could fit perfectly into a Hollywood script: Girl without big ambitions is looking for money and takes a job as a stripper. From her experiences she writes a book, Candy Girl, a Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. Then starts a blog. Some guy who would later become her manager, reads it, finds out about the book, gets it published and suggests her to try her hand at scriptwriting. She hesitates, but finally throws herself into it while working as a sex phone operator. The outcome is called Juno and

It’s no coincidence that the Sundance Festival Short Film Program had to sift through a lot more short films this year – video filmmakers are popping out from everywhere and filling the web with viral video content. A whopping 5,107 submissions

The parallel film festival event that takes place in the same village, same street and pretty much the same dates as its more intimidating...

Jason Reitman shows up at media day in a very anti-establishment, dressed-down style - an indication that this is how the next generation of filmmakers might present themselves: plain jeans, shabby shirt and non-groomed hair. I wouldn’t care how I looked either. With the wind behind his back, if the critics' predictions turn out to be correct, Reitman and his new movie, Juno, will be hitting Oscar's red carpet nominated in more than one category (best original screenplay?)....and besides, he has come to this New York hotel to talk about a movie whose main character has enough of a personality to not worry about what people may think about him.

The New Frontier section is the one section that I normally don't plunge into (and that's a real shame). Call it lack of time, but more like lack of commitment - the films that come out of this section are usually of the groundbreaking kind. I think you need to be in a different headspace to appreciate each and everyone of these - hence why I tend to grab only one or two of these films each year. So far I've got my laser pointed towards Mange Ceci est Mon Corps (pictured above).