Locarno: Amka Films Carries on With Timely Doc ‘L’Afrique Des Femmes’ and Collective Animation Pic ‘Only a Child’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Amanza Smith took on the role of a single mother after her ex-husband, Ralph Brown, went missing one year ago.The Selling Sunset star, 43, exclusively told Us Weekly that she’s learning how to parent her daughter Noah, 10, and son Baker, 8, by herself.“I’ve only been a single mom for, like, less than a year,” Smith said. “Their dad was very much involved.

Anitta is looking so gorgeous.

NHS Tayside has said. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the 43 positive cases identified so far, as part of an outbreak at the 2 Sisters food processing plant, as "a significant cluster".

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmBrian Oliver and Bradley Fischer’s New Republic Pictures closed a multi-picture co-financing deal with Paramount Pictures. NRP will partner with Paramount on 10 pictures, including: Mission: Impossible 7, Top Gun: Maverick, The Tomorrow War, Infinite, Without Remorse, Coming 2 America, Transformers 7, The Tiger’s Apprentice, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Under the Boardwalk.

Fans are wondering what exactly is going on between Chris Brown and Ammika Harris , the mother of his eight-month-old son Aeko. The singer had been leaving lots of swoon-worthy comments about the beauty in her Instagram posts throughout 2020.

Jamie Lang Locarno SwissBiz panel, a round-table featuring five local industry professionals that takes an often critical and always self aware look at the state of affairs in Switzerland’s film industry, was always going to be a bit different this year.

Priyanka Chopra‘s Evil Eye is among the films set to be unveiled as part of the Welcome To The Blumhouse horror anthology.The movies will launch on Amazon Prime in the run-up to Halloween and also include Veena Sud‘s The Lie, Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr.’s Black Box, and Zu Quirke’s feature film debut Nocturne.Evil Eye, which Chopra developed and produced with Blumhouse boss Jason Blum, will debut on October 13(2020).According to bosses at Amazon, “each film presents a distinctive vision and unique

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSwitzerland’s Tristan Aymon, director of short film “Black Hole” (“Trou Noir”), the only title to win two prizes at the 2020 Locarno Festival – a Pardino d’Argento in Swiss Competition and a Youth Jury best Swiss short – is preparing “Skate,” his feature debut.Written by Aymon and Marianne Brun, his co-screenwriter on “Black Hole,” “Skate” will tap into the same context, themes and, above all, emotions of “Black Hole,” a low key and laid-back but

Jamie Lang Production on Argentine-born, Swiss-educated filmmaker Marí Alessandrini’s debut feature “Zahorí” ground to a halt in the middle of post-production.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentZurich-Berlin based Tellfilm, producer of “Blue My Mind” from “Killing Eve” director Lisa Brühlmann, is set to go into production on Aug.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineFor Apple TV+ drama The Morning Show, Angus Wall and Hazel Baird designed a main title sequence that was at once visually abstract and thematically rich, speaking to the various challenging facets of life in the high-pressure world of morning news.Created by Jay Carson and Kerry Ehrin, the series centers on a popular breakfast news program broadcast out of New York, which is rocked to its core when one of its longtime anchors is fired, due to accusations

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: And they’re off! Poland is first out of the blocks this year by naming its submission to the 2021 International Oscar race – Malgorzata Szumowska’s Never Gonna Snow Again.The comedy drama is set to premiere in Competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorPantheon, AMC’s first hourlong animated primetime drama series has announced its full cast.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentAndreas Fontana’s “Azor,” the latest production between Switzerland’s Alina Film and Argentina’s Ruda Cine, partners on Locarno Golden Leopard winner “Back to Stay,” has scored a world sales deal from Brussels-based Be For Films.A scathing take on Swiss banks’ shady dealings during Argentina’s Junta dictatorship, “Azor” is one of the 10 Swiss titles featured in Locarno’s The Films After Tomorrow, a competition for movies whose preparation or

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentFollowing a two-year absence, France will be back among the partner countries of Locarno Pro’s Alliance 4 Development platform that facilitates cooperation between existing co-development funds in Switzerland, Italy, Germany and – well – France, once again.Launched by the Locarno fest’s industry side in 2014, the initiative aims to test market potential and to form creative alliances and foster European co-productions at early stages of development.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSounding a note of hope for the 20 titles selected for Locarno Festival’s highest-profile competition, The Films After Tomorrow, Helena Wittmann’s entry, the sensuous sea odyssey “Human Flowers of Flesh,” is scheduled to go into production on Aug.