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Concord is reaching into its huge library of music recordings for a first-of-its-kind initiative with Outfest to support up-and-coming LGBTQIA+ filmmakers of color. Over the weekend, the festival premiered three short films selected for the initiative — each of them making creative use of a song from…

The lessons learned in this pitch-black German-Bulgarian co-production are very grim indeed, a social-realist drama that takes an unexpectedly shocking turn at its harrowing climax. The film's recent win at Karlovy Vary, where it took the Grand Prix in the Crystal Globe Competition, should give it a…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Berlinale Series Head Julia Fidel has been snapped up by Frank Doelger’s The Swarm and Concordia producer Intaglio Films. Fidel will start working for the Beta Film and ZDF Studios joint venture in October as a Producer. She will join a team that has worked on the likes of…

L.A.-based director Guy Nattiv is back in his native Israel with new film Golda starring Helen Mirren as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. The drama, focused on Meir’s controversial handling of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, opened the Jerusalem Film Festival on July 13, with Mirren squeezing in an appeara…

It's been quite a week for filmmaker Andrew Ahn.  On Wednesday, his Hulu film Fire Island earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Television Movie, and on Thursday night at the opening of Outfest he received the LGBTQIA+ festival’s Outfest Achievement Award, recognizing a body of work that includes…

UPDATED with more quotes on actors strike and AI from original 7/14 story: The 41st edition of Outfest is underway in Los Angeles after an opening-night event dominated by talk of the actors strike. "Let's also acknowledge the elephant in the room," Outfest Executive Director Damien Navarro said as…

Oliver Stone said Friday he was shocked to hear that the stars of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer had walked out of its London premiere the day before as SAG-AFTRA officially declared strike action. "I know several producers are opening movies, like Oppenheimer. Chuck Roven, he was in London. I heard…

With the much expected SAG-AFTRA strike announced Thursday, fall film festivals are in wait-and-see mode as to whether it’s a season sans stars. “We will continue planning for this year's festival with the hope of a swift resolution in the coming weeks,” the Toronto Film Festival told Deadline…

Helen Mirren dedicated a Jerusalem Film Festival life-time achievement award to actors around the world on Thursday, just an hour before a looming SAG-AFTRA strike was made official. The actress received the honorary prize ahead of the Israeli premiere of Guy Nattiv's Golda as the festival’s…

There is growing angst about the potential impact of the confirmed SAG strike on upcoming A-list festivals such as Venice and Toronto, but the industrial action is already having a tangible effect on festivals around the world with the Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland having to pull a Q&A tonight with actor M…

Meera Syal is to deliver the Alternative MacTaggart at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Syal also received the BAFTA Fellowship and has appeared in the likes of Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars at Number 42 and The Split. She will soon be seen in Acorn's Mrs. Sindhu Investigates and Prime Video's Wheel of…

Todd Haynes’ May December will open the New York Film Festival on September 29, organizers said today. The film had its world premiere in Cannes and its North American rights were acquired by Netflix for $11 million after an all-night bidding war. New York will host the film’s North American premiere…