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11.09.2023 - 13:41 / variety.com
Marta Balaga Director Katja Gauriloff has made history with “Je’vida,” the first feature shot in the Skolt Sámi language. “It’s my native tongue, but because of forced assimilation in Finland [of the Sámi people] I didn’t actually learn it. I am studying it only now,” she tells Variety ahead of the Toronto premiere.
“It’s endangered: we have only 300 speakers. There is maybe one village where it’s still in everyday use, which also influenced casting. But we are doing everything we can to keep it alive.” In “Je’vida,” starring Sanna-Kaisa Palo and “Compartment No.
6” breakout Seidi Haarla, not all actors are Sámi. “It was a compromise, of course, because I had to be realistic. But also, we are talking about people who are changing cultures.
These two women are fully Finnish, so they shared their characters’ confusion. That being said, I would love to make a film with an all-Sámi cast one day,” says Gauriloff. Her own cousin, Heidi Juliana Gauriloff, acts in the film.
“Many of the actors are my relatives. There are so few of us.” In the story, Iida and her artist niece, one she barely knows, head to the north of Finland. They are supposed to clear out her childhood home, but the memories she tried to forget keep bouncing back.
Awarded at Helsinki’s industry event Finnish Film Affair last year, the film was produced by Joonas Berghäll, Satu Majava and Anna Nuru for Oktober Oy. The Yellow Affair handles sales. “It’s a huge problem in our community.
There are all these people who moved away. Some didn’t even know they were Sámi, because their parents hid it from them. My mother never spoke Sámi to me, but at least she told me the stories.
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Candace Kanavel, a 27-year-old officer with the Tempe Police Department, has not only made her mark as a dedicated SWAT hostage negotiator and crisis intervention expert but has also donned the crown as Miss Arizona in May, marking a remarkable fusion of two seemingly contrasting worlds.Candace Kanavel’s journey from the police force to the beauty pageant stage has captured the attention and admiration of many, shedding light on her remarkable ability to balance two roles. As a Japanese American, she brings a unique perspective to her law enforcement career and her foray into pageantry.While her roles as a SWAT hostage negotiator and a beauty queen can be worlds apart, Kanavel insists they share a common thread.
on her podcast “Off the Vine.” “I was like, ‘You can’t be right! Do not point out what’s happening on national television right now, because I’m going to burst into tears, and I am trying to keep it together.’ That was a lot of it,” she added.Inaba also found herself coming to blows with Bristowe, 38, after the former “Bachelorette” started to question Inaba’s intentions after two weeks of low scores. “I just want to know where it comes from.
Marta Balaga “Death Is a Problem for the Living,” now also in Italy. The Finnish black comedy, directed by Teemu Nikki of “Euthanizer” fame, will premiere at the Rome Film Festival in October. “I am so proud of everything we have made together, especially ‘Euthanizer’ and [Venice Horizons Extra winner] ‘The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic,’ but this one is certainly the most consistent.
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Apple TV+’s early originals, The Morning Show, debuted its third season in September.Created by Jay Carson, the drama examines the characters and culture behind a popular morning news programme, between sexual misconduct allegations and the COVID-19 pandemic.Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon lead the series as show hosts Alex Levy and Bradley Jackson respectively, with a supporting cast that includes Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Karen Pittman and Steve Carell.In the show’s third season, which premiered on September 13, Jon Hamm, Nicole Beharie and Tig Notaro make up the new additions.After the first two episodes premiered on September 13 on Apple TV+, the remaining eight episodes will be released weekly on Wednesdays. New episodes usually arrive on the streaming service around 12am ET in the US, which translates to 5am BST in the UK.You can check out a release schedule of each episode below.Apple renewed the series for a fourth season in May this year, ahead of the premiere of season three.A synopsis for the third season reads: “In The Morning Show season three, the future of the network is thrown into question and loyalties are pushed to the brink when a tech titan takes an interest in UBA.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Oscar season is always full of twists and turns, and the biggest one yet just dropped with “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Variety has learned exclusively that Lily Gladstone’s work as Mollie Burkhart, an Indigenous woman at the center of a sinister plot in Martin Scorsese’s crime epic, will be campaigned for the Oscars in best actress, instead of supporting where many pundits had speculated. She will campaign alongside her Oscar-winning co-star and executive producer, Leonardo DiCaprio.
Michaela Zee Welcome back to Camp Half-Blood. Disney+ has released the official trailer for its “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series, starring Walker Scobell as the titular 12-year-old boy, Leah Jeffries as Annabeth Chase and Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood. The official logline reads, “‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ tells the fantastical story of a 12-year-old modern demigod, Percy Jackson (Scobell), who’s just coming to terms with his newfound divine powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt.
Gaumont and Egerie Productions have announced they are teaming with Prime Video on heartwarming French-language drama My Mother, God, And Sylvie Vartan (Ma Mère, Dieu, Et Sylvie Vartan), which is the platform’s first French-language feature destined for a theatrical release.
Emmerdale fans were left making the same complaint after Leyla Cavanagh was seen by Jacob Gallagher's side as he suffered a severe allergic reaction. In scenes aired last week viewers of the ITV soap may have noted Jacob asking Victoria Sugden whether he was safe to eat some of the new dishes on offer at The Hide.
Matthew McConaughey has had an incredible career as an actor, and recently, as an author. The artist released his first book Greenlights, on October 20, 2020. It was a major bestseller, debuting at number one on The New York Times non-fiction best-seller list for the week ending October 24, 2020.
and Something About Her sandwich mogul will make her Lifetime movie debut as a police officer on a mission to reunite mother and daughter in Buying Back My Daughter.Madix's role as officer Karen was first announced back in March, when she was deep in the throes of . She has since moved on from her cheating ex and found bigger and better things on the other side of their breakup—namely, an acting career.Here's everything we know so far about Madix's first Lifetime movie role in Buying Back My Daughter.After 16-year-old Alicia (Faith Wright) sneaks out to go to a party and never returns, her mother Dana (Meagan Good) asks the police to open an investigation into her disappearance.
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Tom Hanks or Jennifer Aniston.There’s also various metrics to measure someone’s wealth, between being self-made or the parameters of defining “net worth” – which often encompasses finances, assets, stakes in companies, real estate and other factors.According to Celebrity Net Worth, Jami Gertz is technically the richest actress in the world right now (September 2023) with a net worth of $8billion.Gertz is best known for her early career in the 1980s, starring in films Crossroads, The Lost Boys, Less Than Zero and TV series Square Pegs. More recently, she’s had small roles in Modern Family and This Is Us.Her wealth, however, is largely due to her marriage to billionaire businessman Tony Ressler, with the pair being part-owners of NBA team Atlanta Hawks.Others on the list include Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who have a combined net worth of $500million, and Jennifer Lopez with $400million.In a list of ‘America’s Richest Self-Made Women’ published on Forbes in 2023, Reese Witherspoon was named the richest self-made actress, with a net worth of $440million.
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“The Crown” will hang up their tiaras and teacups after the hit Netflix drama concludes this fall.As anticipation for the royal series builds, the streamer released just a tiny tidbit of what’s to come when Season 6 premieres later this year.The company posted a tweet on Monday teasing one plot point of the season — Prince (now King) Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles (now Queen Camilla)’s 2005 wedding.Alongside a scene showing the nuptials’ wedding invite, they wrote: “After six seasons, seven years and three casts, @TheCrownNetflix comes to an end later this year.”“We’ll be back with more soon, but here’s a hint at what’s to come in our final season.”The card noted the marital ceremony as April 9, 2005, at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle — details that mirror real life, as Camilla, 75, and Charles, 74, did wed on that date and place.Camilla was given the title of the Duchess of Cornwall following her marriage.