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Tenet” (for score and visual effects), “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” (for the original song “Wuhan Flu”), “Eurovision Song Contest” (for song) and “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Story” (for score, song and makeup) are in the initial mix.Academy Award nominations will be announced March 15.The documentary category includes “ Collective,” “ MLK/FBI, ” Netflix’s “ Crip Camp ” and “ Dick Johnson is Dead.” The competitive list also has “The Truffle Hunters,” “ Time,” “ Boys State,” “All In: The Fight for

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThis month’s Chinese New Year holidays will be a litmus test for the strength of China’s film industry recovery following a period of unprecedented turmoil.This time last year, China’s wrecked Spring Festival celebrations were emblematic of the coronavirus crisis that had dramatically engulfed the world’s most populous nation and was soon to become a global pandemic.

Covid in China have been given access all areas passes to discover how the pandemic started.The World Health Organisation (WHO) experts are in Wuhan to to work out what caused the virus that has killed more than two million people in 12 months.The team are set to announce their details findings later this week in an eagerly awaited report.British zoologist Peter Daszak told CNN his team of investigators had submitted a list of places to visit and people to speak to, receiving no opposition from

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Canadian embassy’s apology and explanation after a diplomat created a custom-made T-shirt appearing to make fun of the coronavirus crisis.The offending shirt contained the word Wuhan, the Chinese province in which the virus originated, emblazoned on the ‘W’ bat-like symbol of Wu-Tang Clan and it prompted an official complaint from China.Canada’s foreign service later apologised for the t-shirt, telling Reuters that the logo didn’t deliberately represent a bat, and is instead meant to be the

Watch Video: How 'In the Same Breath' Director Got Multiple Camera Crews in Wuhan to Shoot COVID DocAs with previous efforts such as “One Child Nation” or “I Am Another You,” the director embeds her personal stakes as they relate to the subject matter. Rather than being an impartial observant, Wang shares her fears after traveling to her hometown with her family around the time Wuhan went under lockdown on January 23, 2020.

direct to your inbox World Health Organisation (WHO) investigators have visited a research centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus.The WHO team’s visit to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is a highlight of their mission to gather data and search for clues as to where the virus originated and how it spread.Reporters followed the team to the high security facility on Wednesday, but as with past visits, there was no direct

coronavirus crisis.The offending shirt contained the word Wuhan, the Chinese province in which the virus originated, as part of the ‘W’ bat-like symbol of Wu-Tang Clan.

Also Read: How 'In the Same Breath' Director Got Multiple Camera Crews in Wuhan to Shoot COVID Doc (Video)“I love breaking rules! I love changing the norm…but as a person who went to study Shakespeare to specifically know what every single word meant…I would sit in there asking, ‘Are we allowed to do this? Is this OK? Are people going to be OK that we have Romeo sliding into Juliet’s DMs, so to speak?'” Engels said.But, ultimately, Engels found that the social media format was a perfect fit for

Also Read: Neon Buys Jamila Wignot's Documentary 'Ailey'So how was Wang able to pull this off? “It requires a lot of producing,” Wang explained. “We had a good producing team, field producing and here.

direct to your inboxA World Health Organisation (WHO) team looking into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic have visited one of the largest wet markets in Wuhan, Associated Press reports.Members were seen walking through sections of the Baishazhou market surrounded by a large entourage of Chinese officials and representatives.The experts in veterinary, virology, food safety and epidemiology have so far visited two hospitals at the centre of the early outbreak: Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital and

direct to your inboxThe fight against coronavirus has dominated the last year in practically every nation across the globe.Only a handful of remote island destinations appear to be free from the threat of Covid-19, which has taken the lives of more than 2 million people since the virus emerged in Wuhan, China, in 2019.While some countries have been praised for their approach to the coronavirus pandemic, others, including the UK, face criticism as they struggle to contain second and third waves

In the closing moments of her blistering account of government and media mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic in both China and the U.S., director Nanfu Wang says: "I have lived under authoritarianism and I have lived in a society that calls itself free; in both systems, ordinary people become casualties of their leaders' pursuit of power." Like last year's 76 Days, the first half of Wang's film is an urgently immersive recap of the chaos that gripped Wuhan at the start of the outbreak in early

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticNow that we’re a year into the pandemic (and have a presidential administration that’s forging a sane response to it), the time feels right for taking stock — for looking back, in a big-picture way, at how the crisis unfolded, the ways it was mismanaged, and how we can learn from the vast pileup of mistakes and corruption. Nanfu Wang, the director of the wounding and disturbing Sundance documentary “In the Same Breath,” has made exactly that kind of movie.

Chris Willman Music WriterIf you’re one of those people who think music has lost its dangerous edge, Sacha Baron Cohen had the cure for that in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Taking on two levels of disguise in the 2020 sequel, Cohen again played his fictional Borat character, who in turn disguised himself for a key sequence in the movie as Country Dave, a singer who shows up to perform a song called “The Wuhan Flu” at a right-wing militia rally.

direct to your inbox The number of people who have died in the UK as a result of coronavirus has now passed 100,000.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefBig name Hollywood executives and talent including Sam Raimi, Gianni Nunnari, Patrick Wachsberger and Paula Wagner have joined the “Stars Collective” diversity program launched by Chinese film financier Starlight Media.

coronavirus was first detected.The documentary “Days and Nights in Wuhan” features contributions from 30 filmmakers portraying the suffering and sacrifices made by the city’s 11 million residents, medical staff and front-line workers as they battled the virus that began racing through the city in December 2019.The film is one of at least three documentaries released about the Wuhan lockdown, including “Coronation" by activist artist Ai Weiwei, who now lives abroad following a campaign of

With the help of covert reporters on the ground in China and direction from documentary filmmakers Hao Wu and Jean Tsien in New York, the team behind 76 Days was able to bring the bravery of frontline workers and the painful images of the impact of the novel coronavirus to a global audience.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaMTV Documentary Films will make “76 Days,” a look at the frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, available for free beginning on January 23. The film is being offered gratis in recognition of the one-year anniversary of the start of the coronavirus lockdown in the Chinese city considered to be the early epicenter of a disease that has upended life.

Early in the coronavirus pandemic, Dr.

pandemic which could kill up to 45,000 Scots as a “worst case” scenario.It was believed the disease would mutate from an already-circulating strain of avian flu, making it harmful to humans.The records show cabinet fears over the extensive spread of the flu, which papers say would “spread very quickly from the Far East to Europe through travellers”.The coronavirus pandemic was initially spread by travellers from the Wuhan area of China, where it originated, into Europe.In a cabinet discussion on

Zhang Zhan, the Chinese citizen journalist who chronicled the early days of the Covid-19 crises in Wuhan, was sentenced by a Chinese court today to four years in prison.

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, a citizen journalist is sentenced to four years of jail time by the Chinese government, ITV Hub posts record 2020 statistics and Irrfan Khan-starrer “The Song of Scorpion” gets a special re-release to honor the actor.TRIALZhang Zhan, a former lawyer-turned-citizen journalist, has been sentenced to four years in prison, becoming the first publicly acknowledged person to be tried and convicted for contradicting the Chinese government’s official account of

Guy Lodge Film CriticIf the arrival of vaccines offers some hope of the year-consuming COVID-19 pandemic eventually cooling off, the attendant mini-genre of the coronavirus documentary is only getting warmed up. For years to come, we can doubtless anticipate dozen upon dozen of films probing all angles of what happened and how, what went wrong and how much.

Borat 2, has said he would like to perform the film’s ‘Wuhan Flu’ song at next year’s Oscars ceremony.Erran, who is the older brother of the film’s star Sacha, contributed lyrics to the comedy anthem, which in the Amazon Prime Video film is performed by Sacha at a far-right rally in Washington while in disguise as a bluegrass singer.‘Wuhan Flu’ is now an unexpected contender for Best Original Song at the 2021 Oscars, and Erran has revealed that he’s interested in performing it during Hollywood’s

Given the on-screen insanity, an erratic, COVID-impacted production wrapped in secrecy, and very heavy use of editing, soundtracking a feature such as Amazon’s recent headline-amassing and Rudy Giuliani-angering Borat Subsequent Moviefilm may seem a tall order for any musician.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico – From nondescript buildings in the industrial nucleus of Wuhan, across wavy seas to dusty tented super laboratories in the heart of Mexico, and then across the jagged southwest border and dispersing like a wild bomb ripping through every crevice of the United States, the growing presence of Chinese drug lords and cartels below the southern border is one that is killing an unprecedented amount of Americans.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films is set to release the COVID-19 documentary 76 Days in over 50 virtual cinemas nationwide including the Film Forum in New York and Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles beginning December 4.Directed by Hao Wu (People’s Republic of Desire) and two China-based journalists, Weixi Chen and “Anonymous”, the 76 Days is an ultra-timely docu that gives a raw and emotional look at the struggles of the people of Wuhan, China, in the

DOC NYC, the documentary film festival set to run Nov. 11-19 in New York City, has unveiled its virtual 2020 edition lineup, with 23 world premieres, including Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker's The Meaning of Hitler and Gong Cheng and Yung Chang's Wuhan Wuhan.

coronavirus pandemic, featuring musicians from the outbreak's initial epicenter in an attempt to aid in the psychological and emotional healing process.Zou Ye, a composer from Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the virus was first detected late last year, said that Saturday night’s concert is part of an effort to work through frustration and helplessness on the way toward love and tolerance and, hopefully, some meaning to what he calls “nature’s tremendous revenge.”Musicians from the Wuhan

coronavirus in his 1981 novel, "The Eyes of Darkness" took on a life of its own online.“It was one of those internet things that's mostly bogus,” said Koontz. “I had a book 40 years ago mention the Wuhan virus and it came from a lab in China.

reported Vice. Many aren’t wearing masks despite the fact that most Chinese clubs post placards telling patrons to do so.The brazen displays come after Wuhan — where the outbreak originated — was deemed COVID-free after officials tested 9.9 million people.

The second film by Chinese art-world star Ai Weiwei to debut in 2020, Coronationlooks at the first chapter of the COVID-19 story: the Wuhan lockdown. Directed from afar by the now Europe-based artist, who had volunteers and employees send him hundreds of hours of footage, it's a very different work from 2017's epic-scaled, tightly focused refugee-crisis doc Human Flow.

coronavirus originated late last year, and the province had been under a strict lockdown for most of 2020.The festival, held at the Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park, saw fans enjoy DJ sets and more, with many watching while in the water and sitting on inflatables.The waterpark has had its capacity capped to 50% since it reopened in June following Wuhan’s lockdown.

Oscar-winner Malcolm Clarke documented the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in upcoming doc feature,Wuhan - A Season In Hell. Made with a team of international filmmaker, the feature is meant to take viewers to ground zero of the global coronavirus pandemic.