Cannes’ Virtual Marché du Film Unveils Expanded Cannes Docs Lineup

Christopher Vourlias Director Joseph Mangat’s “Holy Craft” won the Docs-in-Progress Award at an online ceremony Friday evening to close the Cannes Docs sidebar of the Cannes Film Market Online.Presented as part of the Showcase Philippines during Cannes Docs, “Holy Craft” (pictured) is a documentary examining the peculiarities of religion, labor and capital intersecting at a Catholic handicrafts factory in the Philippines.

give an interview to two YouTubers posing as Jimmy Fallon last month.Her game announcement said she “can appreciate that you may have more questions about my take on ‘Tiger King,’ but I am still not giving interviews at this time.”Also Read: 'Tiger King': Judge Grants Carole Baskin Control of Joe Exotic's Former Oklahoma ZooBaskin was in the news earlier this month when Florida law enforcement confirmed the will of Don Lewis, Baskin’s missing late husband, was forged.Baskin responded to the

As the Virtual Cannes Market heads into its final days, the majors have begun to flex their monetary muscle, with MGM closing a deal for remaining international territories on Endeavor Content's hotly-anticipated Bill & Ted sequel and several studios vying for the Will Smith/Antoine Fuqua escaped slave actioner Emancipation, which is expected to close a high eight-figure worldwide deal before Virtual Cannes wraps up.

Martin Dale ContributorOne of Latin America’s biggest genre propositions, the Latido Films-sold “Virus 32,” from Uruguayan director Gustavo Hernandez (“You Shall Not Sleep”), was unveiled Tuesday on the A Demain Cannes market platform.The $1 million pic is a 50-50 Argentina-Uruguay co-production between Aeroplano, run by Sebastian Aloi, and Mother Superior Films, run by Hernandez and Ignacio García Cucucovich.In addition to subsidy support from Argentina and Uruguay, the horror-thriller has

Ann-Marie Corvin Focusing on development, green-lighting smaller, more containable projects and urging governments to take on the role of insurers are just some of the measures co-producers are taking as they navigate their way through the fallout created by the coronavirus pandemic.Speaking at the virtual Cannes Marché du Film’s session on Co-Production in COVID-19 Times, produced by film industry body U.K.

Tim Dams Somewhat appropriately, participants for the Cannes XR program will gather virtually from around the world this week for the Marche du Film’s three-day event dedicated to virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR) projects.Running June 24-26, Cannes XR Virtual will see more than 55 pieces presented through virtual art gallery Museum of Other Realities, spanning XR projects in development through to premieres of new works.Senior figures from tech firms Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel,

Jill Goldsmith Tribeca Enterprises Monday announced 30 films and performances for its annual Tribeca Drive-In series that will be going national this year with partners AT&T and Imax, and help from the NFL to expand the event to stadiums in Dallas. Miami and Seattle.The Tribeca Drive-In has been a signature feature of the Tribeca Film Festival for 20 years and, this year, is a movie form that’s having a renaissance in the coronavirus age.

Christopher Vourlias As part of its annual showcase of documentary filmmaking, the Cannes Film Festival has unveiled a full program during this year’s virtual Marché du Film that will offer documentary professionals a dedicated platform to network and a tailored slate of industry events.From June 22-26, Cannes Docs will recreate the popular Doc Corner strand of previous festivals with an online documentary showcase that includes virtual exhibitors, curated selections of docs-in-progress,

On June 17, CAA held a Town Hall event under its Amplify banner that saw agency brass, talent, activists and organizers discussing actionable steps that can be taken to create more equitable industries. Started in 2017, the Amplify Conferences are meant to bring together leaders from across entertainment, media, sports and tech for a series of panels and conversations to discuss the equity in Hollywood and beyond, with the overwhelming majority of attendees being people of color.

Electric Blockaloo, the virtual music festival of Minecraft, unveiled on Thursday the full lineup for its digital event taking place June 25-28 on both java and Bedrock versions of the video game. Steve Aoki with DIM MAK's Dojo, Rudimental, Deadmau5 (and alter ego Test Pilot), BBC Radio 1 host Sherelle, Paris Hilton and Detroit artists Seth Troxler, Kevin Saunderson and Carl Craig are among the lineup, which includes over eight hundred other artists.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales co Reel Suspects has added Uruguay-Argentina horror Al Morir La Matinee (English title TBD) to its line-up ahead of the Cannes Virtual Marche.Directed by Maximiliano Contenti, the Spanish-language movie is set in a Montevideo movie theatre (remember those?), following events after a silent killer enters the venue’s final screening.

The Ascent” (known as “Black Ops” in the US) with the film the first to have its premiere in virtual reality via AltspaceVR. The event will be called “The VR Film Festival” and will premiere at 7pm BST via the AltspaceVR app.To access the event, you simply need to log into the AltspaceVR app and have access to an Oculus headset, or similar.

It may seem self-serving for festivals nixed by the coronavirus to share the films they would have shown, but it serves a strategic purpose in getting those same movies sold and reviewed.

PARIS — Director Wes Anderson’s latest outing, a debut turn behind the camera for actor Viggo Mortensen and an animated Pixar movie about jazz would have starred at this year’s canceled Cannes Film Festival, organizers said on Wednesday.

From an empty movie theater in Paris, organizers of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday announced the films that would have played at there in May had it not been canceled by the pandemic.

Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” Pete Docter’s “Soul” and two films from Steve McQueen, “Lovers Walk” and “Mangrove” (both from his anthology series “Small Axe”), are among the films that would have gone to this year’s Cannes Film Festival if it had taken place, Cannes organizers announced at a press conference in Paris on Wednesday.

Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” Pete Docter’s “Soul” and two films from Steve McQueen, “Lover’s Walk” and “Mangrove” (both from his anthology series “Small Axe”), are among the films that would have gone to this year’s Cannes Film Festival if it had taken place, Cannes organizers announced at a press conference in Paris on Wednesday.

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After a 20-year old clip of Saturday Night Live resurfaced on social media last week that featured Jimmy Fallon in blackface, the comedian has issued a formal apology on air and he claims that he is “not a racist.” Fallon opened up Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show by promising his fans “a different kind of show” to address the controversy. The clip was from a 2000 episode of SNL that saw Fallon in blackface while impersonating his fellow comedian and SNL alum, Chris Rock.