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Marvel Studios’ Victoria Alonso to Annecy’s Women In Animation Summit 345s44
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) 5i1341
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 626b5j
Top prizes go to an African documentary and the next project from Radu Ciorniciuc.
- Reviews
‘The Last Shelter’: H: DOX Review 186144
Moving documentary about life at Caritas House of Migrants, a refuge for travellers on the edge of Mali’s Sahel desert
- News
Locarno launches African strand of Industry Academy scheme 5fm63
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 2z5q1g
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 4i4gp
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 6l20d
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 13j72
All three titles will be set in Nigeria.
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Metro International boards Holocaust survivor doc ‘I Am Here’ (exclusive) 3k2u16
The film depicts 98-year-old Ella Blumenthal.
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Orange Studio unveils diverse EFM slate topped by ‘Schoolmates!’, ‘Slumlord’ (exclusive) 3q634d
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) 6s324n
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 36647
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’ 385i1u
The short was produced by Potboiler and backed by BBC Film.
- Reviews
‘Nafi’s Father’: Review 2c4g5f
In Senegal, a wise Iman faces a challenge from his own brother
- Reviews
‘President’: Sundance Review 2a1f6s
A remarkable story of bravery and determination against daunting odds in Zimbabwe’s first “free and fair” elections
- Reviews
‘Toorbos’: Review 112j2x
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 2i1k20
Screen rounds up key contenders vying for the attention of programmers out of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
- Reviews
‘The Milkmaid’: Review 1i2y52
The first-ever entry from Nigeria competes in the International Feature Oscar
- Features
Oscars international feature race: Africa and Middle East contenders d416l
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.
