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We Are Who We Are, an eight-part television series directed by Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) will have its world premiere in San Sebastian as part of the festival's special screenings program. Produced by HBO and European pay-TV group Sky, the series is a coming-of-age tale exploring friendship, first love and sexual identity through the story of two adolescents living on an American military base in Italy.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterSan Sebastian Film Festival (September 18-26) has added Luca Guadagnino’s We Are Who We Are to its line-up, with the event to world premiere the eight-part series in full as part of its Official Selection special screenings.Written by Paolo Giordano and Francesca Manieri together with Guadagnino, the HBO-Sky co-production follows two adolescents living on an American military base in Italy.

Sebastian Stan and his girlfriend Alejandra Onieva wear matching face masks while stepping out together on Friday (August 21) in New York City.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentYulene Olaizola’s “Tragic Jungle,” Natalia Meta’s “The Intruder” and Clarisa Navas’ “One in a Thousand” will compete at 2020’s slimmed San Sebastian Latinos Horizontes, a showcase of standout recent movies from Latin America that this year underscores the emergence or consolidation of a new generation of female filmmakers in Latin America.In all, women direct or co-direct seven of the nine features in Horizontes Latinos, a section which also

Taryn Manning is bringing the “Karen” persona to the big screen!

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMichel Franco’s “New Order,” a Venice Festival main competition premiere, looks set to mark a huge step-up in scale for Franco and indeed most Latin American movies at large.It couldn’t be otherwise, Mexican writer-director-producer Franco said at a Sarajevo Film Festival masterclass, hosted Wednesday in the Variety Streaming Room.Teasing through-lines in a career that has made him one of the most laureled of Latin American directors, Franco also

San Francisco 49ers chief administrative officer is speaking out on how the present racial reckoning in the United States has impacted the NFL.

Janet W. Lee Bleecker Street has released the first trailer of “The Secrets We Keep,” a drama starring Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman and Chris Messina, set to premiere Sept.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: UCP is developing the procedural drama series So Others May Live with writer-producer Stephen Meinen and Sam Esmail’s Esmail Corp on board to produce.Written by Meinen, So Others May Live is set in the world of the United States Coast Guard.

Variety welcomed as a “charming, humorous debut.” “American Night” turns on the sometimes fractious dynamics between movie animal actors and their wranglers. Among a trio of titles from young Colombian directors,  neo-noir documentary “Anhell69” is Colombian Theo Montoya’s first feature, after his short film “Son of Sodom” was chosen for the Cannes 2020 Official Selection.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefPowered by Chinese streaming technology, the New York Asian Film Festival will this year move from the real world to the virtual. With strong focuses on women filmmakers and Korean movies, the 19th NYAFF will run Aug.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe Venice Film Festival’s industry-focused Production Bridge had unveiled the line-up of projects that will take part in its ‘Final Cut In Venice’ workshop this year. The six films all hail from the MENA region.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentA fervid supporter of new directors, Paris-based sales house Celluloid Dreams has dropped two clips and the poster of Brazilian João Paulo Miranda Maria’s “Memory House” (“La Casa de Antiguedades”), a first feature, but also the only Latin American title to be included in this year’s Cannes Official Selection.“Memory House” will now world premiere in early September as one of 50 features at a slimmed-down Toronto.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAs the future of TikTok hangs in the balance, the general manager of the Chinese-owned app’s operations in North American said she wanted to “dispel any disinformation” — saying that none of TikTok’s businesses are based in China itself.“For the U.S.