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Marvel Studios’ Victoria Alonso to Annecy’s Women In Animation Summit 4s3w70
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) 2d4i1c
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 116t7
Top prizes go to an African documentary and the next project from Radu Ciorniciuc.
- Reviews
‘The Last Shelter’: H: DOX Review 4t2xi
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 303550
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 424i2n
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 2r3739
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 3u225v
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 2p5b53
All three titles will be set in Nigeria.
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Metro International boards Holocaust survivor doc ‘I Am Here’ (exclusive) 1o4z32
The film depicts 98-year-old Ella Blumenthal.
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Orange Studio unveils diverse EFM slate topped by ‘Schoolmates!’, ‘Slumlord’ (exclusive) 1b1q
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) q1j7
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 1c6b3s
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’ 6l1n30
The short was produced by Potboiler and backed by BBC Film.
- Reviews
‘Nafi’s Father’: Review 562m3y
In Senegal, a wise Iman faces a challenge from his own brother
- Reviews
‘President’: Sundance Review 4a3r2d
A remarkable story of bravery and determination against daunting odds in Zimbabwe’s first “free and fair” elections
- Reviews
‘Toorbos’: Review 712a3u
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 4k2k4n
Screen rounds up key contenders vying for the attention of programmers out of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
- Reviews
‘The Milkmaid’: Review 5d6473
The first-ever entry from Nigeria competes in the International Feature Oscar
- Features
Oscars international feature race: Africa and Middle East contenders 4wq4y
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.
