The Cannes Cinema Meetings-Les Rencontres Cinematographiques de Cannes is celebrating the 38 edition and taking place 17-23.11 in Cannes. While the organizers are describing the film festival as not beeing international, the selection it surely is. Just before the movies releases in France the films are screened in the 6 movie theaters of Cannes and Cannes La Bocca, giving cinephiles a rare...
“Violence begets violence, and the blood of one generation calls for the blood of the next.” That is the warning at the heart of Greek mythology’s House of Atreus. After Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to win favor from the gods in the Trojan war, his wife Clytemnestra killed him in retribution. […]
Awards season is heating up, and the International Documentary Association just dropped its nominations for the 41st IDA Documentary Awards — with several Sundance Institute–supported films taking center stage. Apocalypse in the Tropics leads the surge with four nominations, while Brittany Shyne’s Seeds, which took home the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2025 […]
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Rohan Parashuram Kanawade attends the premiere of “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)” at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival at Egyptian Theatre on January 26, 2025, in
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It took two decades for Laura Poitras, the director of Oscar winner “Citizenfour” and Oscar nominee “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” to convince Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh to let her make a film about his career. The long-gestating project finally became a reality three years ago, with Hersh allowing Poitras and co-director Mark Obenhaus, […]
Forum, the prestigious industry section of leading documentary festival IDFA, crowned Hao Zhou’s “All Fixed Up” as Best Pitch Project, with Kiva Liu’s “Four Comrades, One Echo” winning Best Project at the Producers Connection program. Nolwenn Hervé’s “The Cord” won Best Rough Cut Project, while the IDFA DocLab Forum Award for Best Project went to […]
Yesterday evening, the winners of the TV Beats Co-Financing Market, celebrating its fifth year, were announced.
The international jury selected the drama series project Wool as the most promising project. Wool is written by Birkir Blaer Ingolfsson, Mladen Maticevic, Stephie Theodora, Milena Dzambasovic, produced by Hörður Rúnarsson, Milena Dzambasovic, co-produced by Danna Stern,...
Iconic Italian actor Franco Nero, who gained worldwide fame in Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 classic Spaghetti Western “Django,” will be the top honoree of the upcoming 11th edition of Filming Italy — Los Angeles, the event bridging Italy and Hollywood set to run Feb. 10 to 14, 2026. As previously announced, Nero — who after “Django” appeared […]
Across snow and embers, the road calls north. “I will find you.” An epic Celtic adventure mix of driving drums, pipes, and heroic strings. ? Best with headphones. Great for quests, writing, D&D/TTRPG, and fantasy worlds. TRACKLIST 00:00 Matthew Fisher — Together Stand 02:28 Emma Jackson — Haunting Of Light 05:14 Anthony Belluscio — Nordic Lights 08:37 Lincoln Davis — Skybreeze 11:09 Jordan...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Tonight, Skydance/Paramount’s David Ellison is reported by The Guardian's White House Correspondent Hugo Lowell to be in attendance for the MBS White House Dinner at President Trump’s invitation. Trump of course is close to the elder Ellison, Larry Ellison of Oracle, backed up by his hundreds of billions. At $23.50 or thereabouts a...