Composer Jongnic Bontemps on Writing Music for Four Documentaries Covering the Lives of Black Americans

Alejandro Fernández is gearing up for a night to remember! The 49-year-old singer will be honored with the Icon Award at the 2021 Latin American Music Awards on Thursday, April 15.For decades, Fernández has played a major part in bringing both rancheras and mariachi music to listeners all over the world as well as preserving the Mexican culture through his work.

EXCLUSIVE: Cavalry Media has inked Thom Zimny, filmmaker and longtime collaborator of 20-time Grammy winner Bruce Springsteen.

Naman Ramachandran Objective Fiction, producer of Netflix/Channel 4 show “Feel Good,” is setting up a permanent U.S.-based operation.Hannah Mackay, previously the outfit’s head of scripted, will be relocating to Los Angeles to take up the role of senior VP, Objective Fiction America, with immediate effect.Mackay’s focus will be on North American original commissions, alongside U.S./U.K. co-productions.

Woody Allen again proclaimed his innocence today in a rare interview on CBS Sunday Morning, addressing allegations of sexual abuse dating back years ago by his daughter, Dylan Farrow.

Lovecraft Country.The actress was nominated at the US Critics’ Choice Television Awards for her performance as blues singer Ruby Baptiste, in the HBO horror series.In the episode, Strange Case, Ruby wakes up after being dosed with a magical potion to find herself in the body of a white woman.Later, towards the end of the episode we see a shocking scene when Ruby rapes her white department store boss with a stiletto heel as vengeance for his attempted sexual assault of her only Black

Adam Lambert had been expecting to spend 2020 and 2021 on tour with Queen, plans that crumbled thanks to COVID-19 (the tour is set to resume in May 2022).

Jon Burlingame The Academy music branch made Oscar history yesterday by nominating two films with Black composers for best original score: “Soul” and “Da 5 Bloods.”Prior to this, in the 86-year history of the category, only six films featuring Black composers were even nominated: “In Cold Blood,” “Shaft,” “The Color Purple,” “Round Midnight,” “Cry Freedom” and “BlacKkKlansman.”Herbie Hancock remains the only African-American composer to win in this category, for his jazz-filled “Round Midnight”

Waffles + Mochi, a new cooking show featuring Michelle Obama, premieres this Tuesday (16 March) on Netflix. The six-episode series features the former first lady alongside an array of celebrity chefs and guests, including Sia, Mandy Moore, Rashida Jones, Common, Jack Black, and more.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticBy the time she turned 13, “Punky Brewster” star Soleil Moon Frye had done more to impact pop culture than most Americans will in their lifetime. (“Holy macanoli!” and mismatched high tops, anyone?) But once the show was canceled in 1988, things stalled.

WME has signed documentary filmmaker Kareem Tabsch, best known for co-directing the Netflix documentary, Mucho Mucho Amor, about the life of Walter Mercado.

The “American Idol” judges were won over by a young singer who hopes to become the next Gabby Barrett during Sunday night’s instalment of the show. 

Wakanda, there was Zamunda.

Activist Rose McGowan says the political divide in America contributed to her decision to move out of the United States to Mexico last year. Speaking with Fox News from her new home, the former "Charmed" actress detailed her current path to healing after feeling rather depleted in the wake of Harvey Weinstein's early 2020 New York trial as well as the build-up to the presidential election.

Following the releases of Big Time Adolescence, The Binge, and The Ultimate Playlist of Noise, American High is once again teaming with Hulu for its next feature, Sex Appeal, a team comedy which is being toplined by actors Mika Abdalla (Project Mc2) and Jake Short (All Night).

The first thing to understand about the social dynamics in Mexico around police is that they differ greatly from how the public in the United States relates to law enforcement officers. Stateside, both the uncritical reverence some feel toward them—namely the Blue Lives Matter crowd—and the terror they incite among BIPOC communities emanate from their violent efficaciousness and status as inflexible figures reveling in a lack of accountability.

A documentary exploring claims filmmaker Woody Allen molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was a child has had its UK release confirmed. Following its showing in the US, Allen v Farrow will premiere on Sky Documentaries on Monday 15 March.

For much of her career, composer Lolita Ritmanis dreamed of tackling an “epic” Latvian film, in tribute to her heritage as a Latvian-American. In 2019, she finally was able to do so with Blizzard of Souls, penning deeply affecting music, which landed her on the Oscars’ shortlist for Best Original Score.

Nathan Evans was a guest of the US Kelly Clarkson show and ended up writing a new song for the presenter.Nathan admitted he'd been excited to guest on the show with the Grammy award winner, who first got her break on American Idol in 2002, The star couldn't wait to sing his specially written song to the singer.Kelly was also thrilled to have Nathan as a guest as she admitted she was a big fan of his work - and his accent.She said: 'The hottest trend in music is sea shanties.

New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears when it drops locally on Channel Nine.WATCH: Mike Munro interviews Britney Spears on A Current Affair in 2001The eye-opening documentary caused a stir overseas last month when it shined a light on the controversial questions some media has asked over the years as well as some of the seemingly unfair criticism she’s been subjected to over the years.It wasn’t just the US press who were notorious for prying into her personal life, and among the