The 31st edition of Sheffield DocFest will open with the world premiere of Kevin Macdonald’s Klitschko: More Than A Fight, at Sheffield City Hall on June 12.
The Sky Original film follows brothers and former heavyweight boxers Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko as Vitali moves from the ring to political office, leading the defence of Kyiv as its mayor when Ukraine was attacked by Russian forces in February 2022.
The film combines present-day footage shot in Ukraine, the US and Germany, with personal archive material from the Klitschko family.
It is produced by Docsville Studios and Sky Studios, and will be broadcast...
The Sky Original film follows brothers and former heavyweight boxers Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko as Vitali moves from the ring to political office, leading the defence of Kyiv as its mayor when Ukraine was attacked by Russian forces in February 2022.
The film combines present-day footage shot in Ukraine, the US and Germany, with personal archive material from the Klitschko family.
It is produced by Docsville Studios and Sky Studios, and will be broadcast...
- 4/30/2024
- ScreenDaily
Craig Gillespie’s comedy-drama Dumb Money starts its three-step platform release this weekend courtesy of Sony, opening in eight theaters in LA, NY, Chicago, DC, Boston and San Francisco ahead of an expansion next week and a Sept. 29 wide release. Gillespie (I, Tonya, Lars and the Real Girl) saw lots of love in Toronto for the premiere of his tale of meme stocks, retail traders, riches and battles won and lost. Opening week cinemas include AMC Century City and The Grove (LA); AMC Lincoln Square, Regal Union Square (NY); AMC River East (Chicago); AMC Georgetown; AMC Boston Commons; and AMC Metreon (San Francisco).
The David and Goliath story is that of a phenomenon that exploded in 2021 where ordinary people surged into the market backing specific stocks, pounded them on social media and flipped the script on Wall Street as other piled in. They turned GameStop into the world’s hottest stock for a period,...
The David and Goliath story is that of a phenomenon that exploded in 2021 where ordinary people surged into the market backing specific stocks, pounded them on social media and flipped the script on Wall Street as other piled in. They turned GameStop into the world’s hottest stock for a period,...
- 9/15/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
When Nikole Hannah-Jones heard that the TV adaptation of The 1619 Project earned three Emmy noms, she was especially pleased about this specific recognition: outstanding cinematography for a nonfiction program. “I was particularly happy Jerry Henry got the nomination for cinematography because he’s just so talented,” she says of the Hulu docuseries that also received nods for best documentary or nonfiction series and for picture editing for a nonfiction program. Right before the nominations came out, “Naimah Jabali-Nash, one of the directors, texted me this shot from Georgia,” Hannah-Jones adds. “[In the picture,] we were out reporting in 99 percent humidity, on a plantation in Georgia. We were drenched in sweat and spending nine hours out there. It was a reminder of everything that we did to bring this to the screen.”
Hannah-Jones’ Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the underexplored impact of enslaved Africans on the U.S. economy, society, politics and culture since...
Hannah-Jones’ Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the underexplored impact of enslaved Africans on the U.S. economy, society, politics and culture since...
- 8/8/2023
- by Cori Murray
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Married at First Sight fans always keep up with couples and cast members from different seasons. Season 11 favorites Miles and Karen surprised many when they decided to stay together as fans watched them through their season tackle depression and mental health issues, as well as Karen’s reservations on intimacy. But after Decision Day, fans were rooting for them. Per their social media pages being void of one another over the past year or so, many speculate they have split. Whether or not they have, Karen has announced the release of her first cookbook.
Married at First Sight via YouTube Karen of ‘Mafs’ releases a cookbook
One of Karen’s attributes that Miles found the most attractive were her domestic skills. In one episode, he bragged about Karen getting up late at night to appease his hunger by cooking him fish, potatoes, and vegetables. Her social media boasts her love...
Married at First Sight via YouTube Karen of ‘Mafs’ releases a cookbook
One of Karen’s attributes that Miles found the most attractive were her domestic skills. In one episode, he bragged about Karen getting up late at night to appease his hunger by cooking him fish, potatoes, and vegetables. Her social media boasts her love...
- 4/13/2023
- by Brenda Alexander
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Gold Derby’s associate editor Latasha Ford interviewed actor Boris Kodjoe, executive producer and director Roger Ross Williams, sports analyst and former NBA star Jalen Rose, social justice advocate Angela Rye, casting director and producer Tracy “Twinkie” Byrd, musician Herbie Hancock and showrunner Shoshana Guy on the red carpet at the premiere of “The 1619 Project.” The event took place at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on January 26, 2023. Watch the video above.
Hulu’s six-part 1619 Docuseries is an expansion of “The 1619 Project” created by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine. The series seeks to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
See over 200 interviews with 2023 awards contenders
The episodes –“Democracy,” “Race,” “Music,” “Capitalism,” “Fear,” and “Justice” — are adapted from essays from The...
Hulu’s six-part 1619 Docuseries is an expansion of “The 1619 Project” created by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine. The series seeks to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
See over 200 interviews with 2023 awards contenders
The episodes –“Democracy,” “Race,” “Music,” “Capitalism,” “Fear,” and “Justice” — are adapted from essays from The...
- 1/28/2023
- by Denton Davidson and Latasha Ford
- Gold Derby
In 2016, documentarian Roger Ross Williams made a short film about Saúl Armendáriz, an American-born, openly gay wrestler known as Cassandro, who was nicknamed the "Liberace of Lucha Libre." Seven years later, Williams explores the same subject in his first scripted feature "Cassandro," this time with "Y tu mamá también" and "Werewolf By Night" actor Gael García Bernal in the lead role. The result is a steadily entertaining character piece, full of impressive lucha libre sequences and anchored by a strong lead performance from García Bernal.
As the movie opens, Saúl prepares to wrestle in a makeshift ring in an auto parts shop in Juárez, Mexico. His Lucha Libre character is El Topo, a boring henchman who gets pummeled by Gigántico, the brutish local favorite. Saúl likes his work but yearns for better storylines and more exciting matches. Gigántico, he says, has "no poetry," no sense of showmanship. He wants to...
As the movie opens, Saúl prepares to wrestle in a makeshift ring in an auto parts shop in Juárez, Mexico. His Lucha Libre character is El Topo, a boring henchman who gets pummeled by Gigántico, the brutish local favorite. Saúl likes his work but yearns for better storylines and more exciting matches. Gigántico, he says, has "no poetry," no sense of showmanship. He wants to...
- 1/24/2023
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
Two MTV Documentary films vying for Academy Awards attention — Ondi Timoner’s “Last Flight Home” and Tanaz Eshaghian’s short “As Far as They Can Run” — garnered the top nonfiction honors at the 23rd annual Woodstock Film Festival.
“Last Flight Home,” about Timoner and her family’s last days with her father, won the best documentary prize, while “As Far as They Can Run,” about disabled children in rural Pakistan who have been deemed “useless” by their communities, took home the fest’s best short documentary award.
“Last Flight Home” premiered at Sundance earlier this year before opening the Telluride Film Festival in September. This year marked Timoner’s first time at the Woodstock fest.
“The greatest joy I have is sharing my work in person,” Timoner told Variety. “The reason I make films is to impact people and this film is doing that more than any other film I’ve made.
“Last Flight Home,” about Timoner and her family’s last days with her father, won the best documentary prize, while “As Far as They Can Run,” about disabled children in rural Pakistan who have been deemed “useless” by their communities, took home the fest’s best short documentary award.
“Last Flight Home” premiered at Sundance earlier this year before opening the Telluride Film Festival in September. This year marked Timoner’s first time at the Woodstock fest.
“The greatest joy I have is sharing my work in person,” Timoner told Variety. “The reason I make films is to impact people and this film is doing that more than any other film I’ve made.
- 10/2/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
When PBS announced in 2017 that vaunted documentarian Ken Burns was hard at work on a four-part docuseries about Muhammad Ali, to debut in 2021, the news was greeted with much anticipation: one of the film world’s greats on the Greatest. The only hint of criticism came from some who thought Ali’s life was already well-trod territory. But four years later — in the wake of a racial reckoning in America that had the film industry, like so many others, reevaluating its commitment to diversity — the docu community had become considerably less welcoming of the project. With public chatter about a lack of representation and opportunity for people of color reaching a peak, a coalition of 140 documentary filmmakers sent an open letter to PBS in March 2021, slamming the choice of Burns to helm what was being positioned as the definitive doc on Ali.
“Your commitment to diversity at PBS is not borne out by the evidence,...
“Your commitment to diversity at PBS is not borne out by the evidence,...
- 9/16/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Rectify's Aden Young, Aaron Pedersen, Oscar Redding and Chris Sommers are part of the ensemble cast attached to a violent Outback thriller to be directed by Jonathan auf der Heide.
An unofficial Australian-uk co-production, Mongrel is due to start shooting in South East Queensland late this year, with post in the UK.
Scripted by Brit Ross Williams, the plot follows Doug Richards (Young), a family man who embarks on a pig-hunting weekend with his mates.
The weekend turns into a nightmare as the hunting dogs savagely attack a young couple from the city. Torn between loyalty and doing the right thing, Richards must choose between an escalation in violence or facing his own death.
Pedersen is cast as a detective, Redding is a bad-ass professional pig hunter and Sommers is a local would-be tough guy.
The producers are New Holland Pictures Two's Mark Overett (The Fear of Darkness, Iron Sky...
An unofficial Australian-uk co-production, Mongrel is due to start shooting in South East Queensland late this year, with post in the UK.
Scripted by Brit Ross Williams, the plot follows Doug Richards (Young), a family man who embarks on a pig-hunting weekend with his mates.
The weekend turns into a nightmare as the hunting dogs savagely attack a young couple from the city. Torn between loyalty and doing the right thing, Richards must choose between an escalation in violence or facing his own death.
Pedersen is cast as a detective, Redding is a bad-ass professional pig hunter and Sommers is a local would-be tough guy.
The producers are New Holland Pictures Two's Mark Overett (The Fear of Darkness, Iron Sky...
- 5/19/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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