Famous French Priest Abbé Pierre Gets Biopic Treatment From SND – AFM (EXCLUSIVE)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Yo-Yo Ma spent the better part of the pandemic playing cello to an online audience seeking solace in his music.On Friday, he marked his return to San Francisco by playing an energetic Bach cello suite before a live audience to inaugurate the opening of a new performance center designed to increase public access to classical and jazz music.Ma praised the top-notch acoustics in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Bowes Center for Performing Arts and the “safe space that

certainly the world’s longest-running transgender film festival.”The 24th annual festival runs through this weekend and will mark the second year it is solely available virtually across the United States.The collected films, says Virago, “are centered on transgender and gender non-conforming experiences, and are also created by gender-nonconforming and transgender filmmakers, so the content can sometimes be larger than issues of gender.”The festival is comprised of seven programs, each

who died in September, was previously attached to play Doc Broadus.Whitaker most recently starred opposite Jennifer Hudson in the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” and he can currently be seen in Epix’s “Godfather of Harlem,” for which he also serves as executive producer. He is next set to star in “Havoc,” opposite Tom Hardy and Timothy Olyphant.

fans witnessed Lawrence (played by Jay Ellis) attempt to balance a booming career and life as a long-distance father.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Giancarlo Nasi’s Quijote Films, one of the lead producers of Chile’s current Oscar entry “White on White,” has closed a co-production deal with France’s Les Valseurs at the American Film Market for “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,” the first feature from Diego Cespedes, the Cannes Festival’s 2018 Cinefondation first prize winner.Mexico’s Varios Lobos, led by Pablo Zimbron, is also a co-producer.In addition, the pact includes the financing and co-production of a

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorMickey Rourke is joining the cast of action movie “Section Eight.” Sales agent The Exchange is introducing the movie to international buyers during the virtual American Film Market, which wraps Friday.The cast also includes actors Dolph Lundgren, Scott Adkins, Ryan Kwanten, Dermot Mulroney, and Blue October’s lead singer Justin Furstenfeld, as previously announced.The movie is the story of a former soldier who, after avenging the murder of his

Boygenius have detailed their first performance as a band since November of 2018, locking in a one-off benefit show to take place in San Francisco later this month.The indie-rock supergroup – comprising Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus – will perform at Saint Joseph’s Arts Society on November 19, with all proceeds from the event going to the Bay Area nonprofit Bread & Roses.

Manori Ravindran International EditorA timely new documentary chronicles a British solder’s return to Afghanistan, just as U.S.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentVeteran Australian director Rolf De Heer (“Ten Canoes”) is shooting a new film with an Aboriginal theme set in South Australia and Tasmania titled “The Mountain,” for which Italy’s Fandango Sales is launching sales at the online AFM.“The Mountain” (pictured above in a first-look image) tells the story of a central character named BlackWoman, who is abandoned in a cage in the middle of the desert.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorIn a presentation delivered to buyers this week during the virtual American Film Market, the stars of biopic “McCarthy,” Michael Shannon and Emilia Clarke, as well as its director Václav Marhoul and screenwriter Tom O’Connor, explained why the story of the venomous demagogue Joseph McCarthy had to be told now.The film, now in development, follows McCarthy’s journey from being an ambitious Republican Senator to the most powerful and feared man in the

Jamie Lang Leading Spanish indie sales outfit Filmax has scooped the international rights to “Seve: One Man Army,” a new feature-length documentary about legendary Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros, arguably the top golfer of his era and a Spanish icon on and off the course.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentBestselling Italian writer-turned-director Donato Carrisi (“The Girl in the Fog,” “Into the Labyrinth”) has started shooting near Lake Como on his third feature film “I Am the Abyss.”Vision Distribution is launching international sales at the online American Film Market on the pic, which based on his new thriller by the same title.Carrisi, who has penned 11 international bestsellers and sold over 3 million copies of his books worldwide, shot to the top

Naman Ramachandran Studiocanal has begun worldwide sales on writer-director Cédric Klapisch’s “Rise” (En corps) at the virtual American Film Market this week.A story of resilience set in Paris and Brittany, “Rise” traverses the the worlds of classical and contemporary dance with a young woman’s journey from success to rock bottom, and back again.The cast includes emerging actor and dancer Marion Barbeau, Pio Marmaï (“How I Became a Super Hero”), Denis Podalydès (“Anaïs in Love”), François Civil

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentParis-based company Indie Sales (“My Life as a Zucchini”) has acquired “Richard the Stork 2,” the sequel to the family animated film which traveled to 155 countries and grossed over $20 million worldwide.

Naman Ramachandran Variety can reveal the first look poster and trailer of the long awaited sequel to all-time British kids’ classic film “The Railway Children” from Studiocanal. Studiocanal is launching global sales on the film at the virtual AFM (Nov.