Expanding Frontiers in a Pandemic World: 5 Takeaways from the Sanfic Industria Panel

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“The Amber Ruffin Show” is swiftly expanding its roster of writing talent, adding Corin Wells and Patrick Rowland to its staff. The hires come after “Amber Ruffin” added three other writers to the mix: Ashley Nicole Black, Ian Morgan and Michael Harriot.

chippies serving up the best fish suppers amidst a tough and challenging Covid year has revealed the top 50 from across Britain.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterThree AMC Networks executives are broadening their oversight within the company as the company focuses more of its efforts on streaming.Courtney Thomasma, most recently the executive director of BBC America, is stepping into the role of general manager of streaming service AMC Plus, reporting to AMC Networks president of SVOD Miguel Penella.

Glamour UK in 2020—the first woman to be featured on the cover of a major magazine with chest hair.She was overjoyed at the possibility that her image could inspire other women to begin their own self-love journey with their bodies. Like Anand, she had grown up in a society where images of beautiful women did not include body hair.

EXCLUSIVE: Pretty Little Liars alum Ashley Benson will produce and star in 18 & Over, a pandemic-inspired slasher movie that she co-created with Jimmy Giannopolous and Diomedes Raul Bermudez. Also starring in the film are Jon Foster, Jake Weary, Sky Ferreira, Luis Guzman, Winnie Harlow, G Eazy, Duke Nicholson, A$AP Nast, John Robinson, Paris Hilton, and Pamela Anderson.

Pamela Anderson has joined a new social network called BitClout, which sources believe could be the star's latest attempt to help free her pal Julian Assange.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentAs this week’s 10th Sanfic Industria comes to a close with prize announcements, Chile’s Sanfic – the Santiago Intl. Film Festival – has unveiled first details of its 2021 festival edition, which runs Aug.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Four Latin American women producers, each of them leading voices in their respective countries, found kinship and solidarity at the Sanfic Industry panel Women Film Producers: Expanding Gazes.They also realized that there were still many issues to resolve, especially gender parity in the entertainment sector.Hosted by Chile’s premier audiovisual industry event on March 25, the panel included Sanfic Industry Head and Storyboard Media producer Gabriela Sandoval of Chile

The Life That’s Left,” Costa Rica’s “Crono-Capsulas” and Chilean drama series “Silver Bridge” and “La Vida de Nosotros” ran out as four of the big winners at a vibrant and packed online 2021 Sanfic Industria that also underscored the depth of new talent in Latin America.Running March 18-25, Sanfic Industria, the constantly expanding industry arm climaxed a day later with the announcement of a huge haul in industry prizes, the largest from Mexico’s genre powerhouse Mórbido, plus the lineup for

Jamie Lang Leading Chilean producer-director Matías Cardone of Invercine Producciones and “My Last Round” director Julio Jorquera have teamed on the time capsule documentary “Real Time,” screening in this year’s online Sanfic Industria Work in Progress sidebar.“Real Time” starts with a long-lost VHS of an artistic performance in Chile’s turbulent 1980s, featuring Patricia Rivadeneira and Vicente Ruiz, exponents of the Chilean counterculture during Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBookClub, a virtual book-club platform set to debut this spring, has hired entertainment marketing veteran Pamela Levine as its CMO.Levine most recently was president of worldwide theatrical marketing for 20th Century Fox (now part of Disney) and prior to that served as HBO’s chief marketing officer. Before joining HBO in 2011, she had worked at Fox for 16 years.In addition, BookClub has recruited Talia Gerecitano as VP of original content marketing.

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment veteran Pamela Levine, most recently president of Worldwide Theatrical Marketing for Twentieth Century Fox and former chief marketing officer of HBO, has joined start-up BookClub as CMO.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentThreatened that she has to pay off the money she owes or face the consequences, Julia, a singer, leaves the restaurant where she’s performed and drives to her former home in a leafy working class tenement block in Posadas, northern Argentina, on the sweeping Paraná river.There she plans to reclaim the stash of money she’s made from a scam she pulled off years before in her district as well as sign a document to allow her near-17-year old daughter

Sanfic Industria, the high-energy industry part of Santiago de Chile’s Sanfic festival, runs March 18-26. Given its context, it bids to play an even more crucial role in Latin America’s industry re-set after experiencing a more punishing pandemic impact than any other part of the world.Sanfic Industria: More Growth, Despite COVID-19Over the last 12 months, film and TV events, whether virtual or on-site, have almost all slimmed.

Jamie Lang Chilean filmmaker Leticia Akel Escárate will be pitching her highly anticipated and well-studied debut feature project “Shadow” at this year’s online Sanfic Industria Lab: Ficción.

Naman Ramachandran A new documentary from Bhutan will share the Himalayan Buddhist kingdom’s unique philosophy of Gross National Happiness (GNH) with the world.Bhutan’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuk came up with the phrase in 1972 when he said that GNH is more important than Gross Domestic Product.