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Nia DaCosta, Prano Bailey-Bond & Aislinn Clarke On Using Genre Films As A Means To “Explore Social Issues” — Storyhouse
Filmmakers Nia DaCosta, Prano Bailey-Bond and Aislinn Clarke all touched down at Dublin’s second annual screenwriting festival Storyhouse to discuss the appeal that the genre space has to them...
Syrian-French Director Anas Khalaf Unveils Post-Bashar Al-Assad Feel-Good Tennis Drama ‘Love-45’ With Laetitia Dosch & Charif Ghattas – Qumra
EXCLUSIVE: Anas Khalaf and Rana Kazkaz’s Mare Nostrum and The Translator count among the rare fiction works made by Syrian directors tackling the 2011 democracy protests and President Bashar...
WBD Lands Gisele Pelicot Doc; Sunny Side Advisory Board; Sphere Abacus To Sell ‘Safehaven’ – Global Briefs
Warner Bros Discovery Lands Gisele Pelicot Doc Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has struck a major agreement for ITN Productions’ fast turnaround doc The Pelicot Rape Case: A Town on...
‘Angels In The Asylum’: Production Company Behind Simon Pegg Film Files For Administration
EXCLUSIVE: The production company that houses Angels In The Asylum, the beleaguered British indie film starring Simon Pegg, has effectively filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. AITA Films Limited intends...
Icelandic-Romanian Comedy-Drama Series ‘Hot Stuff’ For Broadcaster SYN Set For Global Launch
EXCLUSIVE: An Icelandic-Romanian comedy-drama series is set to launch internationally, as European countries continue to combine to get production rolling. Hot Stuff comes from Reykjavik-based Glassriver and Romania‘s Idea...
Game On: French TV Giant TF1 Breaks Down The Trend Defining Its Unscripted TV Plans
EXCLUSIVE: TF1 is France’s largest commercial broadcaster with an unscripted output that includes the local versions of Survivor, The Masked Singer and Dancing With The Stars. Locally, it has...
Sands Film Festival To Open With Carey Mulligan Flick ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’, Speakers Include Joanna Lumley & Kharmel Cochrane
Scotland’s Sands International Film Festival of St Andrews will open on April 25th with a screening of the indie British comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island starring Carey Mulligan...
Werner Herzog To Receive Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement
The Venice Film Festival will fete German filmmaker Werner Herzog with its honorary Golden Lion at its forthcoming 82nd edition. Accepting the honor, Herzog said: “I feel deeply honored...
Women Directors Behind ‘Baby Reindeer’, ‘One Day’ & ‘We Are Lady Parts’ Talk Breaking Records & Smashing Glass Ceilings At The BAFTAs
A little-publicized representation record was broken at the BAFTA TV noms this year. For the first time ever, more women than men are nominated in the Best Director: Fiction category, with...
Grammy Winner Janis Ian On Career That Began At Age 14, And Bonds With Janis Joplin, Pete Seeger, Nina Simone & More
Singer-songwriter-musician Janis Ian celebrates her 74th birthday today. For most of those years, 60 of them in fact, she has been famous, having rocketed to fame at age 14...
