Ji.hlava Documentary Festival Chief on Ramping Up Competition Section, Shifting Focus to Artisans

Searchlight’s Sundance acquisition Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) from Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson took several prizes at the sixth annual Critics Choices Documentary Awards on Sunday, including Best Documentary Feature, Best Director (a tie), Best First Documentary Feature, Best Editing, Best Archival Documentary and Best Music Documentary.

Tom Petty was best known for his legendary music career, YouTube's upcoming documentary, , will also give fans an intimate look at his humorous side. Ahead of the film's Nov.

Rebel Wilson has flown to Fiji to shoot a secret project and couldn't help but tease fans with sneak peeks – including a stunning video of herself twirling in a flirty red dress.MORE: Rebel Wilson is a beach goddess in strapless swimsuit in gorgeous new photoThe actress shared the clip on her Instagram and wrote: "Discovering happiness …and sooooo much more (to be revealed soon)."WATCH: Rebel Wilson stuns in gorgeous red dressThe 41-year-old later shared more updates on her Stories, including

Harry Styles just helped a superfan through a major life moment: coming out to her mother!

here.In February 2022, Gooding will stand trial in New York City in a groping case. Gooding is charged with violating three different women at three different Manhattan night spots in 2018 and 2019.One of the woman accused Gooding of pinching her buttocks, according to ABC News.

Katherine Tulich Australian film maker Gabriel Shipton wants his new documentary “Ithaka”, which will have its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival on Sunday, to shine a new perspective on his brother, the polarizing Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.“It’s a story that’s never been told before,” Shipton, who produced the film, told Variety. “We’ve learned Julian’s story through media headlines, but I wanted to tell this story through his family.

Will Tizard ContributorArguably the highlight of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival – certainly among the industry folk – is the Emerging Producers presentations, a glimpse of things to come as bizzers new to the nonfiction film field present their work and upcoming projects.Selected for their initiative and dedication, then coached by more experienced leaders in the European doc world – often former Emerging Producers themselves – members of the group generally go on to

Will Tizard ContributorStories of urban life under pressure dominated the 25th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival as the event wrapped Saturday with top honors going to Slovak director Barbora Sliepkova for “Lines,” called by the jury an “exceptional” approach to showing how “beauty, intimacy and space are intertwined” amid social and economic contradictions and connections.“Lines” also took the prize for best debut and sound design by Michal Horvath along with $10,000, and was

Will Tizard ContributorOliver Stone believes we will never really get to the bottom of the many conflicting accounts of the assassination of John F.

Will Tizard ContributorWhen doc director Linda Kallistova Jablonska began exploring the state orphanage system in the Czech Republic, she confesses she didn’t expect to find ordinary girls living in institutions for years – children who would likely not have been separated from their families in any other EU nation.

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Top seed Simona Halep and US Open champion Emma Raducanu find themselves in the same half of the draw at the inaugural Transylvania Open. The WTA 250 event will make its debut next week and local hero and former world No 1 Halep and Raducanu are the two headline acts.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor“Flowers Are Not Silent,” a film about the brutal suppression of demonstrations against last year’s rigged presidential election in Belarus, will open the 25th Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival on Tuesday.

Emiliano De Pablos Malaga-based sales house Agencia Freak has picked up worldwide festival distribution rights to two new Spanish documentaries, “An Elephant on a Spider Web” by Cuban director Rolando Díaz, and Marcos Cabotá’s “Sonic Fantasy,” on legendary music engineer Bruce Swedien.Both acquisitions were unveiled at the eve of the 2021 edition of the Spanish Screenings-Málaga de Cine, which runs October 20-22, and where Agencia Freak-handled Emma Tusell doc “Video Blues” is being shown to

A former “Survivor” contestant was taken to hospital last week after being attacked by a woman at her pilates studio early Thursday morning.

Former "Survivor: Fiji" contestant Michelle Yi was stabbed and beaten with a metal baton early Thursday morning in Santa Monica, Calif.  The former reality show contestant says that she was arriving at a pilates studio where she teaches classes around 6 a.m. when a disheveled and irate woman began yelling things at her and approached the front door.  Speaking to People, Yi claims that when she tried to tell the woman to leave, she was attacked.  "She stabbed me in the left bicep," says Yi.

according to People.Authorities said the alleged perpetrator had attacked two others before Yi and appeared to be off her medication. Yi, 37, arrived at the pilates studio where she was teaching a class shortly before 6 a.m., but as her students started to arrive, she noticed a disheveled woman heading toward the door.“She was yelling all sorts of things like, ‘You stole my identity,’ and ‘You’re a prostitute,'” Yi told the publication.

Cuba Gooding Jr. will go on trial in February in his New York City groping case, a judge said Monday, with prosecutors planning to portray the actor as a serial offender and the defense contending the case is an example of #MeToo run amok.

coronavirus cases surged in New York and the state shut down most court matters.Gooding was arrested in June 2019 after a 29-year-old woman told police he squeezed her breast without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square.A few months later, Gooding was charged in two additional incidents as more women came forward to accuse him of abuse.He was accused of pinching a server’s buttocks after making a sexually suggestive remark to her at TAO Downtown and forcibly touching