British Film Institute Names Deputy CEO

TribecaFilm.com.After wowing audiences — and scoring an Oscar nod — with last year’s “Pieces of a Woman” — Vanessa Kirby again showcases her phenomenal talent. This drama finds the British actress playing a writer who loses her memory in New York City.

Haley Bosselman editorSince the release of their debut album in 2015, Wolf Alice has been one of those “big in England” bands who are massive in their home country, leading awards shows and winning best album prizes, while they remain relatively under the radar in the U.S.Ten years into their career, the British quartet’s masterful latest album, “Blue Weekend” — out today (June 4) on Dirty Hit-RCA — may take them out of that category.

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Tim Dams Sheffield DocFest is spotlighting and celebrating Black British screen culture this month with a Retrospective titled “Films belong to those who need them – fragments from the history of Black British Cinema.” The Retrospective brings together a wide and diverse range of films that have been largely overlooked and undervalued in film history and criticism. To give breadth to the selection, the films have been selected by guest curators.

Making the world better is what it’s all about for Malala Yousafzai.

K.J. Yossman Some of Britain’s most respected drama schools are facing allegations of sexual harassment, with students claiming they experienced or witnessed sexual assault and “inappropriate” behavior from teachers, including pressure to perform naked or in their underwear.An investigative report into sexual impropriety in U.K.

Peter Caranicas Deputy Editor“Pari,” the story of an Iranian mother’s search for her missing son in Athens, directed by Siamak Etemadi, an Iranian who lives in Greece, won the top feature film prize at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, an annual showcase for Greek cinema that wrapped its fifteenth edition on May 30.“Parontes,” under its English title “Being Present,” a penetrating look at the COVID-19 crisis in Greece (pictured above), directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos, took home LAGFF’s

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Boris Johnson has reportedly tied the knot with his partner, Carrie Symonds, making the 56-year-old the first British Prime Minister to get married while in office in 199 years.

Prince Harry reportedly found out his grandfather Prince Philip died just one hour before the news was broken to the British public.The Duke of Edinburgh passed away at Windsor Castle on 9 April, while his grandson Harry and pregnant wife Meghan Markle were asleep in California, USA. Officials at the US Embassy made several attempts to contact Harry while he was sound asleep at 3am, it's been claimed.