Edinburgh Film Festival CEO Ken Hay on Overcoming the Pandemic and the Future of Cinema

Succession season 3 is set to premiere at this year’s London Film Festival.The first few episodes of Jesse Armstrong’s hit HBO show will be screening in London as part of the festival’s Special Presentations strand, it was confirmed today (September 7).BFI announced the lineup today, with Succession joining major world and European premieres in the capital from October 6 onwards.Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall will open the festival, while the Closing Gala will be Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of

Kate Hudson is turning heads at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. Hudson wore a red Chantilly lace and tulle Valentino gown from the Valentino Resort 2022 Prêt-à-Porter collection to the  premiere in Venice, Italy Sunday.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe previously postponed Beijing International Film Festival is to make a 2021 comeback and will be held later this month in the Chinese capital.The festival is normally held in late April, but organizers took the precautionary move of shifting it to August this year.

Vivienne Chow New features by some of the most prominent filmmakers from the Asia-Pacific region including The Philippines’ Brillante Mendoza, Bangladesh’s Mostofa Sarwar Farooki and Japan’s Ogigami Naoko are among the seven titles competing for the Kim Jiseok Award at the upcoming 26th Busan International Film Festival (Oct. 6-16, 2021).Works by Royston Tan from Singapore, China’s Wang Qi, Aparna Sen from India and Ilgar Najaf from Azerbaijan have also been nominated.

by Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn.  The film follows eccentric director Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz), who has been hired by a billionaire to create a movie of his 'legacy'.

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Hedges, like so many filmmakers looking not to lose their creative mojo during the pandemic, managed at the height of the Covid lockdown to take advantage of so many talented actors trying to survive in the same circumstance, and in the best show business tradition managed to create a new film, The Same Storm, that turned out to be so much more than he could have imagined.

A film festival is about more than just the films and the festival center. It is about the location, the journey, the experience. Here on Deadline, we’ll be bringing you updates on what it’s like to be on the ground at the Venice Film Festival, which continues on schedule for a second year in a row despite the pandemic disrupting other events.

Keeping its lineup as secret as possible until the eve of its opening on Thursday, the Telluride Film Festival just announced an eclectic, varied and in some cases likely Oscar-contending group of movies, most of which will have their U.S. debuts, and some world premieres, even though the fest doesn’t use labels like that themselves.

VENICE, Italy -- Hope for the future of cinema was front of mind for many as the Venice International Film Festival kicked off Wednesday on the Lido.In the face of the delta variant, and the trials those in the global film industry weathered last year, the 78th edition of the oldest festival in the world has returned, with precautions, to celebrate the best of what’s to come in film from both newcomers and established veterans, like Jane Campion and Pedro Almodóvar.“I have the feeling and

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaFemale directors had a better chance of having their documentaries screened at film festivals than their narrative features, according to a new study.Women accounted for 42% of directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors and cinematographers on documentaries that were featured in Sundance, SXSW, AFI, New York Film Festival and other annual celebrations of moviemaking.

Isla Fisher is stepping out for the 2021 Cinefest OZ Film Festival!

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Guy Lodge Film CriticSince 2011, the Edinburgh Film Festival’s Talent Lab has nurtured a number of rising filmmakers through an assortment of masterclasses, workshops and individual mentoring sessions: Talents like Ben Sharrock (“Limbo”), Eva Riley (a recent winner BIFA winner for “Perfect 10”) and Rob Savage (“Host”) are alumni of the program.

The Tragedy of Macbeth has been announced as the Closing Night Gala of this year’s London Film Festival.The film, an adaptation of the Shakespeare classic starring Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington, marks the first time Joel Coen is working without his brother and regular collaborator Ethan.The European Premiere will take place on October 17 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, while simultaneous preview screenings will take place in LFF partner venues across the UK.Coen, who

Jamie Lang BFI London Film Festival (LFF) will host the European premiere of Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” for its closing ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 17 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.

Naman Ramachandran Netflix’s top U.K. content executives have underlined the streamer’s ongoing efforts in the fields of empowering diversity and disability, both on and off-screen.Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Monday, Anne Mensah, VP for original series, and Fiona Lamptey, director of U.K.

Billy Connolly will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award, while screenwriter Jack Thorne will deliver the MacTaggart lecture as the Edinburgh TV festival gets under way on Monday.

Sir Billy Connolly has been announced as a major figure at this year's Edinburgh Television Festival. The telly fest, which normally takes places as Edinburgh's International Conference Centre, will be taking place digitally this year due to Covid restrictions.

Naman Ramachandran A range of topics dominating television industry headlines in the U.K. will be front and center at the 2021 Edinburgh TV Festival (Aug.

Jamie Lang This year’s 38th Jerusalem Film Festival will host a tribute to iconic Israeli company Cannon Films and producers Yoram Globus and Menachem Golan, curated in collaboration with Quentin Tarantino. The Cannon Film Group produced and distributed films from 1967 to 1993.