David Oyelowo’s Directorial Debut ‘The Water Man’ Added to Toronto Film Festival Lineup

straight to your inboxManchester City striker Marlos Moreno could be set for his sixth loan move out of the club in four years, according to prospective new side Coritiba.Winger Moreno, now 23, signed for City in 2016 for an initial £4.75m from Atletico Nacional after helping them to the Colombian league title with five goals in 27 games, earning a national team call-up and impressing in the Copa Libertadores.The deal was due to rise to £8.23m if the move was a success and Moreno immediately

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe feature documentary “The Curve,” which examines the decisions that led to America’s COVID-19 crisis, is being shopped around at the Toronto International Film Festival by Jet Black Iris Productions.Directed by Academy Award-nominee Adam Benzine (“Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah”) and featuring an original score by Emmy-winning composer Joel Goodman, the film traces the crucial three-month period, from mid-January to mid-April, when the choices made by

Shamier Anderson holds up a phone with Halle Berry Facetiming into the premiere of Bruised during the 2020 Toronto Film Festival in Canada on Saturday (September 12).

Eli Countryman “Selma” star David Oyelowo did not originally plan to make his feature film directing debut in 2020. But when the first director for “The Water Man” left for another project during the financing stage, Oyelowo stepped up.His film is now set to debut at the Toronto Intl.

Celtic star Massimo Donati insists Alfredo Morelos would be a success in Serie A - but only if he sorts his disciplinary issues.  The Colombian striker has been red carded seven times during his Rangers career and has regularly been booked for dissent.  Fiorentina are the latest club to be linked with a big money move for Morelos after Lille had a £16million bid turned down. It’s unlikely the French side will come back in for him after signing Canadian striker Jonathan David for £27m. And that

Selma star David Oyelowo says his directorial debut, The Water Man, was inspired by his childhood and aims in part to allow Black kids to see themselves on the big screen. "I made it for my 12-year-old self.

Making his directorial feature debut at TIFF, David Oyelowo looked to the films he loved as a kid for inspiration when it came to choosing “The Water Man”.

Appropriately enough given the subject matter of his celebrated documentaries like Cartel Land, director Matthew Heineman delivers something different from the usual rock-doc in The Boy from Medellin, his portrait of reggaeton superstar J Balvin: While offering some of the expected musical material and concert footage, the film is much more interested in the singer's emotional health, especially as it pertains to political unrest in his native Colombia.

As the Toronto Film Festival gets underway, animal rights activists gathered outside Bell Lightbox to protest luxury parka maker Canada Goose's sponsorship of the awards season launchpad. On Thursday, around a dozen protesters, led by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and backed by mobile billboards traversing King Street, urged TIFF to cut ties with Canada Goose over how it sources its coyote fur and goose down to make its puffy jackets.

Variety Editors As the 2020 Toronto Intl.

The 2020 Toronto International Film Festival is now requiring moviegoers to wear masks while attending screenings during the event.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaRicky Staub thought he was hallucinating. When he looked outside his office window, he saw a horse and buggy making its way down the streets of North Philadelphia like an emissary from another century.

Clayton Davis Shawn Mendes will perform at the 2020 Toronto Film Festival Tribute Awards, the organization announced Wednesday.Along with his performance, he will endow the new Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award. The $10,000 prize will be given to a film that tackles issues of social change.

coronavirus pandemic, with a programme of 58 films from around the world — 50 of which will be premiering online.Steve McQueen’s Mangrove will be opening the festival, and the new film from God’s Own Country director Francis Lee Ammonite will be the closing night gala.Further films that are set to premiere include Spike Lee’s filmed take on David Byrne‘s smash-hit Broadway show American Utopia, as well as Miranda July’s new film Kajillionaire and Josephine Decker’s Shirley Jackson

Cate Blanchett is encouraging the reemergence of the film industry amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as the Jury President of the Venice Film Festival, the Hollywood actress is thrilled to be present for the annual event and she couldn’t be more proud to support and help filmmakers share their work after the worldwide health crisis has affected the film industry in a major way.The Oscar winner urges for a safe reopening of cinema gatherings, and congratulates the effort and organization of

now playing in theaters around the world, Christopher Nolan hopes to hold certain cinematic secrets close to his chest. He's pleased moviegoers are beginning to unspool the mysteries of inversion — and finally figuring out what the hell this movie is about — but the writer-director is staying mum on exactly how he pulled it all off.His star, John David Washington, is a bit less precious about pulling back the curtain of how the Nolan sausage is made.

Amazon Studios has picked up the rights to “The Boy From Medellín,” a documentary about Colombian musician J Balvin that’s directed by Matthew Heineman and will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.The film is a deep-dive into the life of Balvin and how he rose to stardom in his home of Colombia, all leading up to a massive concert he would perform in Medellín, Colombia.