Netflix has unveiled six filmmakers who will receive funding and professional support to make a short documentary as winners of the third year of the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund. “Following a rigorous application process and thousands of applications, a shortlist of 12 filmmaking teams from across the U.K. and Ireland were invited to Netflix’s U.K.
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The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) unveiled its 2025 Big Screen and Tiger Short competitive sections on Tuesday. Typical for Rotterdam, the selection is truly global, with films traversing from Montenegro to Malaysia, and from Congo to India. The Big Screen Competition, which features films that bridge arthouse and popular cinema, features highlights including The
Nicholas Hoult had 5,000 new friends once he wrapped filming for Nosferatu… well, rodent friends. The actor, who stars alongside Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgard in Robert Eggers’ supernatural horror film, shared during a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show that the movie clearly had a “big rat budget.” “I think we had like 5,000
As major players in Hollywood walk back on earlier commitments to DEI, Eva Longoria says she hasn’t given up on her push for greater diversity, equity and inclusion across the entertainment industry. “This kind of pendulum swing of DEI programs being cut back means a lot of directors and writers from those programs will
On the eve of the Red Sea Film Festival opening Thursday, Imax has opened its first giant screen location in Jeddah with Muvi Cinemas, the country’s largest cinema chain. The latest Imax screen opening internationally comes as the cinema technologies company looks to show more local language movie titles on its global network of theaters.
Sophie Okonedo will receive the Richard Harris Award at the 2024 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), organizers unveiled Monday. The Richard Harris Award recognizes the outstanding contribution of an actor to British film. Previous recipients of the honor include the likes of Samantha Morton, Riz Ahmed, Kristin Scott Thomas, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Daniel Day-Lewis,
Silvia Pinal, the revered film and television actress who left an indelible mark on Mexico’s Golden Age of Cinema, has died. She was 93. Mexico’s culture secretary, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, as well as the Asociación Nacional de Intérpretes announced Pinal’s passing on social media. The Associated Press reported that Pinal had been hospitalized for
The Locarno Film Festival‘s Open Doors program, which supports filmmakers from underrepresented regions of the world, has unveiled a new team for its next four-year mission: To focus on supporting and elevating African cinema. The co-production and talent develpment initiative, previously focused on Latin America and the Caribbean, will turn its attention to the African
Mindy Kaling has boarded the live-action short Anuja as a producer off the back of its wins at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, the Montclair Film Festival, and the New York International Short Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter can reveal. Anuja, from Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai, is the story of a gifted nine-year-old
For fans of The Holiday movie hoping to someday Airbnb the cottage from the film, Jude Law has some disappointing news. In an interview with BBC Radio on Sunday, the actor, who starred in the 2006 film alongside Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black, made a big reveal about the film’s Rosehill cottage after
The 1,500 guests who arrived at the Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills on a balmy mid-October evening had to pass a squadron of armed guards, go through a metal detector, and have their IDs checked before taking their seats inside the Saban Theater. The security was a fitting prelude
Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guests Lady Clover Honey and Gladiola Gladrags. This episode is a part of The Best of Triversity Talk series. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community.
Macedonian producer and actress Labina Mitevska has been selected as the recipient of this year’s Eurimages International Co-production Award, honoring producers for their contribution in fostering international film collaboration. Mitevska, who co-founded Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production in Skopje, North Macedonia, will receive the award from European film subsidy group Eurimages and the European Film
Werner Herzog travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate the death after a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances in Piotr Winiewicz’s feature film debut About a Hero. Vicky Krieps also stars, and Stephen Fry appears. “But Herzog, our narrator, is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect…,”
Arthouse streamer and distributor MUBI has canceled its international film festival in Istanbul, Turkey over concerns about local censorship just as the annual event was set to kick off. The MUBI Fest was to open on Thursday evening with a screening of Queer, Luca Guadagnino’s LGBTQ+ themed drama with Daniel Craig in the lead role.
Yoshida Daihachi’s Teki Cometh proved to be the big winner of the Tokyo International Film Festival’s major awards categories that were revealed Wednesday night at a glitzy ceremony in the Japanese capital. Teki Cometh, a feature adaptation of a book by celebrated Japanese novelist Tsutsui Yasutaka, won the festival’s top prize, the Tokyo Grand Prix,
No Other Land can lay claim to be one of the most important documentary of the year. A timely, powerful, and as The Hollywood Reporter critic Lovia Gyarkye put it in her Berlin review, “devastating portrait” of life under Israeli occupation in the West Bank, the film was shot over five years by a collective
Taiwanese-Burmese filmmaker Midi Z caused a stir and gained good notices with his 2019 film Nina Wu, which dealt with the exploitation of women in entertainment, and was released in the midst of the global #MeToo movement, a long overdue public reckoning for powerful men who had committed acts of sexual violence and misconduct. Selected
New technologies led by artificial intelligence and virtual production are profoundly changing visual effects but are still “another paintbrush” in the service of storytelling, says VFX veteran George Murphy. “Virtual production is not just a tool for VFX; it’s a storytelling tool that allows actors to feel fully immersed in the scene, instead of having
Hirokazu Koreeda confessed he had wanted to have an in-depth talk with Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia ever since he saw her film All We Imagine as Light at the Cannes Film Festival this year. On Tuesday, the Japanese auteur finally got his chance as part of the intimate TIFF Lounge talk series held during Tokyo
The Alpha Gang just got a whole lot bigger. A pack of A-listers, including Dave Bautista, Channing Tatum, Steven Yeun, Zoë Kravitz, Léa Seydoux, and Riley Keough are joining two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett in Alpha Gang, the new alien invasion comedy from the Zellner Brothers. The film, set “in a heightened reality” follows a
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Wallace, the scattered entrepreneurial protagonist created by the Oscar-winning animator Nick Park, has an invention for everything. The modest suburban home on Wallaby Street that Wallace shares with his expressive beagle, Gromit, is filled with Rube Goldberg-esque gizmos. One machine, functioning as a kind of alarm, ejects
Johnny Depp‘s plane was late coming into Rome, so he missed the Rome Film Festival press conference that was scheduled on Saturday to talk about the new film he directed, Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness. Depp was due to present the film that evening, pick up a prize and then fly out
BAFTA TV Award winner Chris Cottam is set to direct The Light Fantastic, a new ballroom dance comedy movie starring Jeremy Irvine, Rupert Everett, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and Layton Williams. Cornerstone will launch worldwide sales for the film at the American Film Market (AFM) in Las Vegas. Inspired by a true story, The Light Fantastic follows
Dick Pope, the veteran British cinematographer who worked on 11 movies with director Mike Leigh, died Tuesday, the British Society of Cinematographers announced. He was 77. No other details were given, but Leigh told Indiewire that Pope had undergone “major heart surgery” before work began on Hard Truths, their film that premiered last month at the Toronto
Amazon MGM Studios is doubling down on its original film business. The studio arrives at MIPCOM Cannes with nearly all its eggs in Earth Abide‘s basket, an original series starring Alexander Ludwig (Vikings) and Jessica Frances Dukes (Ozark). The show is a post-apocalyptic tale, based on George R. Stewart’s 1949 novel, about the fall of
The Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Festival, North America’s largest, has unveiled its programming team for its upcoming 2025 edition. The Toronto festival said Heather Haynes has been promoted to director of programming, and her team for the 2025 edition includes programmers who abruptly resigned in March amid financial woes and the departure of artistic director Hussain Currimbhoy. As
The Chloe Sevigny-starring adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s classic novel Bonjour Tristesse from director Durga Chew-Bose is set to open the 2024 Toronto Film Festival’s Discovery program with a world premiere, organizers said Wednesday. Claes Bang, Lily McInerny and French actress Nailia Harzoune also star in the English-language contemporary take by the Canadian writer-turned-director. TIFF’s Discovery program, which
The 81st Venice International Film Festival has announced the opening night films for its Horizons and Horizons Extra competition sections. Nonostante, the second feature from Italian director Valerio Mastandrea (2018’s Ride) will open the Horizons competition section on August 28. The Horizons Extra competition section will kick off on August 29 with September 5, Tim
One of the finest Japanese independent films of the past few years is finally landing in U.S. cinemas this weekend. Second-time director Kei Chika-ura’s Great Absence, which debuted to strong reviews at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and later won the best actor prize in San Sebastian for its star, Japanese screen icon Tatsuya Fuji (In the