Fremantle Scores Rights To Barry Avrich’s Oscar Peterson Documentary

Fremantle and Passenger, the company founded by True Detective producer Richard Brown, are teaming with sports marketing company Infront to make a documentary series about the launch of the NBA-affiliated Basketball Africa League.

Daniel Kaluuya for a different Black actor minutes after he won an Oscar. Margaret Gardiner, a South African journalist and member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, confirmed on Monday (26 April) that she had been involved in the interaction with Kaluuya in the Academy Awards press room the night before.

Soul picked up its second Oscar win of the night for Original Score and Jon Batiste called out Duke Ellington, Bach and Nina Simone in a stirring celebration speech.

NEW YORK -- “My Octopus Teacher,” the tale of an eight-limbed creature and her human companion, has won the Oscar for best documentary.Ten years in the making, “My Octopus Teacher” began as a personal video project by South African filmmaker Craig Foster to rekindle his connection with nature by observing an inquisitive female mollusk while free-diving near Cape Town.He filmed their interactions and became increasingly dazzled by how she could fashion tools from shells, furl herself in ribbons

My Octopus Teacher wrapped its tentacles around the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, corralling a win for Netflix in that category for the second year in a row and third time in the last four years.

Christopher Vourlias The unexpected Academy Award run of “My Octopus Teacher,” Netflix’s hit, heartfelt documentary about a filmmaker’s unlikely relationship with an octopus living off the coast of South Africa, marks a rare Oscar nomination for an African documentary.

Barry Ferguson, but only if he can show he's fit and ready on a consistent basis. The striker has a clause in his contract that could see him leave in the summer, with interim boss John Kennedy admitting the club will have a decision to make.

Nominated for best documentary feature alongside “Collective,” “Crip Camp,” “The Mole Agent” and “Time,” Netflix’s ode to nature, “The Octopus Teacher,” has gained traction in the Oscars race over recent weeks. The film, which chronicles a diver named Craig Foster, who documented his time swimming with an octopus that lives in a kelp forest off the coast of South Africa, has recently picked up wins at the BAFTAs, alongside a surprise win at the Producers Guild of America Award.

Emiliano Granada Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel’s second virtual edition frames multiple titles – “The Bubble, “My Old Man” and “The Home” portraying an ever growing and aging demographic and the conditions in which its members live the final stage of their lives.The debut feature documentary of Chase Musslewhite and Jesse Zinn, the later also VdR with short film “Wavelengths,” “The Home,” like “The Bubble,”  plumbs the world of residential homes with an empathetic eye.Having passed through IFP

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Locarno Film Festival’s Industry Academy workshop is extending its global reach to Africa.The prominent Swiss festival’s formative initiative dedicated to training young professionals working in sales, traditional or online distribution, theatrical exhibition and programming for festivals – which is an intergral part of Locarno’s Locarno Pro industry side – has forged a new partnership with the Realness Institute, the South Africa-based non-profit

Barry Ferguson, as he feels Rangers will be worried about facing the winger on Sunday. The Scotland international has missed most of this season with an ankle problem, and is in doubt for the Scottish Cup clash at the weekend with a muscular problem.

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian filmmaker Barry Avrich and his Melbar Entertainment Group have signed with APA for representation.

Barry Ferguson has slammed "sad" social media snipers as he came to the defence of Neil Lennon. A clip of the Celtic manager, believed to have been filmed in England on Tuesday, was shared widely.

Warner Bros. International Television Production has picked up the global distribution rights, excluding Canada, to the comedy format How to Buy a Baby from LoCo Motion Pictures.

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Africa and Nat Geo (Latin America) are among a number of international broadcasters to board the Fremantle-distributed water crisis film Day Zero, which narrator Chiwetel Ejiofor says brings urgency to an environmental issue that is not fully understood.

The Oscar-nominated filmmaking team behind the documentary Time are looking forward to a reunion at Union Station in Los Angeles, the main venue for this year’s Academy Awards. Director-producer Garrett Bradley and producers Lauren Domino and Kellen Quinn haven’t seen each other in person for a while, because of Covid-19.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Latino-owned Fuse Media has marked its first foray into the global media marketplace on the eve of MipTV with licensing deals to language learning platform Lingopie and South Africa-based Telkom SA.“Today’s licensing agreements signify the early innings of Fuse Media’s global expansion,” said Fuse Media head of digital, Patrick Courtney, who added: “It is also inspiring that these companies are eager to provide their customers with content that not only engages young,

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed James Reed, the co-writer and director behind My Octopus Teacher, Netflix’s first original documentary from South Africa that is up for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. It follows Foster as he free-dives in a cold underwater kelp forest in South Africa and develops a relationship with a wild common octopus and documents a year in the unusual friendship.

The main character of Oliver Hermanus’ shattering “Moffie," set in 1981 South Africa, is a handsome, white 18-year-old. In the country's system of apartheid, he is a member of the ruling class, but he's no insider.Shy, timid and closeted, Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer) is conscripted into the army as part of regulated military service for white males over 16.