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Marvel Studios’ Victoria Alonso to Annecy’s Women In Animation Summit 6h3a1h
This year’s conference will focus on the business case for diversity.
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Memento posts fresh deals for ‘Night Of The Kings’, ‘This Is Not A Burial’ (exclusive) 23e47
Night Of The Kings made it onto the 15-picture shortlist of the Best International Film category at the Oscars this year.
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H:DOX reveals 2021 competition and industry winners ahead of physical screenings 2g6s3k
Top prizes go to an African documentary and the next project from Radu Ciorniciuc.
- Reviews
‘The Last Shelter’: H: DOX Review 2j5ia
Moving documentary about life at Caritas House of Migrants, a refuge for travellers on the edge of Mali’s Sahel desert
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Locarno launches African strand of Industry Academy scheme w326x
Locarno Industry Academy also runs in Mexico, Brazil, the US, Lebanon and Greece.
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Disney+ appoints UK commissioning exec as EMEA director of scripted content 3z3x6c
Lee Mason has been a commissioner at UK broadcaster Channel 4.
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Qumra 2021: Online edition offered a beacon of hope and community g5e3a
The seventh edition nurtured 48 short and feature-length projects across some 700 online meetings.
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Qumra 2021: “I would love to do a French ‘Small Axe’”, says Claire Denis 142e3p
French director discussed her childhood in 1950s West Africa.
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Nigeria’s Kunle Afolayan expands Netflix Nollywood partnership with three new films 3p433h
All three titles will be set in Nigeria.
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Metro International boards Holocaust survivor doc ‘I Am Here’ (exclusive) 96a12
The film depicts 98-year-old Ella Blumenthal.
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Orange Studio unveils diverse EFM slate topped by ‘Schoolmates!’, ‘Slumlord’ (exclusive) 63431n
French production and sales arm will unveil four new films at the EFM.
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Icarus Films acquires Congolese Cannes Label doc ‘Downstream To Kinshasa’ (exclusive) 4q5v37
Distributor plans virtual theatrical release in spring followed by VoD rollout later in year.
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Filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese talks new project, creative process 3b5n1z
The filmmaker has been researching subjects of siege and fear while locked down in home city of Berlin.
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Screen Star Akinola Davies Jr wins Sundance short prize with ‘Lizard’ 6o6668
The short was produced by Potboiler and backed by BBC Film.
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- Reviews
‘President’: Sundance Review 411u3j
A remarkable story of bravery and determination against daunting odds in Zimbabwe’s first “free and fair” elections
- Reviews
‘Toorbos’: Review 46505d
South Africa’s Oscar-entry is set in the poor white backwater of the 1930s
- Features
25 films from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa to tempt festival directors in 2021 6v1px
Screen rounds up key contenders vying for the attention of programmers out of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
- Reviews
‘The Milkmaid’: Review 113i5b
The first-ever entry from Nigeria competes in the International Feature Oscar
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Oscars international feature race: Africa and Middle East contenders 482x2g
Africa last snagged an Oscar nomination in 2011 with Algeria’s Outside The Law, while the Middle East has scored seven nods and two wins in the past decade.
