Things get worse before they get even worse for Roy Cropper in Coronation Street next week while Liam Connor faces his appearance in court, Daisy Midgeley's got her tail between her legs and Maria Windass' paranoia gets the better for her.
15.03.2024 - 14:13 / variety.com
Savina Petkova Documentaries can reach places justice cannot: this is the credo of Argentinian writer-director-producer María Silvia Esteve, whose latest project “Mailin” won the 2|35 Post-Production Company Award at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. For seven years, Esteve has been working with Mailin Gobbo in Buenos Aires to document her story of overcoming systematic sexual abuse.
Gobbo led a legal battle against former priest Carlos Eduardo José, but lost the case in March 2021 when José was cleared of all charges. “Mailin” is Esteve’s debut documentary feature after her short “Criatura” was awarded in Locarno in 2021.
Already, this new project has gathered industry accolades, such as the IDFA Bertha Fund. Additionally, “Mailin” had already scored a double award win at the Visions du Réel Industry 2022, under the care of Alejandra López (IKKI Films) as co-producer, and is supported by Argentina, France and Romania.
The director told Variety in the lead up to the festival that she first saw Mailin in a news report. That interview, she recounted, focused so much on the abuse, in “all of the most atrocious details,” signaling that the media “didn’t really care about Mailin as a woman, nor as a person.” At that moment, Esteve decided to combat a reductive narrative—a mix of pity and sensationalism—and to seek out that woman, whom she saw as “very strong,” especially since she was “exposing something very painful, with the courage to do so because she needed to enact change.” Propelled by the same values, Esteve believes in the power of stories and, most of all, in their accessibility.
Things get worse before they get even worse for Roy Cropper in Coronation Street next week while Liam Connor faces his appearance in court, Daisy Midgeley's got her tail between her legs and Maria Windass' paranoia gets the better for her.
When drugs kingpin Jonathan Cassidy filmed himself driving around Dubai in his Lamborghini he was following a well-trodden path. The Middle Eastern city has become a destination for criminal fugitives.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Intishal Al Timimi, founder and chief of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival, is stepping down from the fest’s top leadership role. Al Timimi had joined the festival when it launched in 2017 in the Red Sea resort town of El Gouna, 250 miles south of Cairo, and rapidly put the event on the international festival map, proving its mettle in promoting the cream of the region’s cinematic crop, while also providing key support in nurturing new works through the informal CineGouna market.
Justice have unveiled their funky new single ‘Saturnine’ featuring Miguel – listen to the track below.The French electronic duo announced their comeback album ‘Hyperdrama‘ earlier this year, which will be their first full-length album in seven years. ‘Hyperdrama’ is due April 26 via Ed Banger Records – presave/preorder the record here. Having released three singles so far, including March’s pulsing ‘Incognito‘ and Tame Impala banger ‘One Night/All Night‘, Justice have now shared the latest teaser of their album.‘Saturnine’ features R&B singer Miguel, who says he has “been friends with Xavier and Gaspard for some years now so to finally work together and get a great song has been the best experience.
True crime fans are obsessed with BBC1's The Serpent. The drama series - first screened in 2021, but now available to view on Netflix - tells the incredible story of convicted killer Charles Sobhraj.
Lise Pedersen Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel has unveiled the program for its 55th edition, which includes 10 first films out of 15 in the main international competition, cementing its reputation as a springboard for emerging talent. The official selection includes 165 films from 50 countries, with gender parity for the second-year running, and no fewer than 88 world premieres, making VdR the place to be in April on the international non-fiction film calendar.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Paris-based film sales agency Cat&Docs has acquired “Kamay,” the debut feature documentary from filmmakers Ilyas Yourish and Shahrokh Bikaran. The film will world premiere at Visions du Réel, which runs in Nyon, Switzerland, April 12-24. Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer (below).
A victim of brain butcher Sam Eljamel has demanded the surgeon is prosecuted or his victims will die without seeing justice done. Pat Kelly, 64, longs for the neurosurgeon to be jailed for what he has done.
The family of former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is calling out an organization which had been entrusted to hand out a yearly award in her name.
Christopher Vourlias When two-time Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou revealed in 2020 that she had been raped by a senior member of the Greek sailing federation while competing for the national team, she inspired dozens of other women to break their silence, sparking the country’s #MeToo movement. In her feature-length directorial debut, “Tack,” which premiered this week at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greek-British filmmaker Vania Turner follows one such story: the shocking case of a younger sailor, Amalia Provelengiou, who alleged she’d been repeatedly abused and raped by her coach — beginning when she was only 12 years old.
Zendaya and Tom Holland are stepping out to watch some tennis together!
The Justice Secretary has denied playing politics with the wrongful convictions of subpostmasters despite blaming Westminster for the absence of Scots legislation to quash convictions.
Coronation Street star Samia Longchambon has been told to 'stop' as she left her fans and followers swooning over her reunion with her husband. The actress took to social media with delight as she got to kick off the weekend with Sylvain.
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” premiering Sunday and Monday on Investigation Discovery.“Quiet on Set” rips the facade off writer-producer Schneider, now 58, and his enormously profitable but toxic juvenile show-business factory that churned out iconic hits such as “The Amanda Show,” “Zoey 101,” “Drake & Josh,” “Sam and Cat,” and “iCarly” — starring young actors like Jamie Lynn Spears, Jennette McCurdy, Miranda Cosgrove and Victoria Justice.The series reveals a nightmarish world in which at least three convicted sex offenders — production assistant Jason Handy, animator Ezel Channel and dialogue coach/actor Brian Peck — were on staff with full access to children. (All were convicted after they had been hired for the shows.) One female writer recalls on screen being told to lean over a desk and pretend she was being sodomized, among many egregious examples of the toxic workplace overseen by Schneider.
Celebrity Big Brother viewers were left divided after two more stars were evicted during Friday night's live show (March 15).
Ellise Shafer Netflix has revealed a slew of commissions out of the U.K., including a political thriller series starring Julie Delpy and Suranne Jones, the reality show “Buying London” and a TV adaptation of Marian Keyes‘ bestselling novel “Grown Ups.” As reported by Variety exclusively earlier, Netflix has also commissioned the Jamie Dornan crime noir series “The Undertow,” which will go into production in Scotland this year and premiere on the platform in 2025. Also set for 2025, “The Choice” stars Jones and Delpy as the British Prime Minister and French President, respectively, in what is being described as a high-stakes political thriller.
Currently on trial in France for decrying the sexual assault claims from actress Charlotte Lewis, Roman Polanski now finds himself facing a trial next year in the United States over allegations of raping a minor in 1973.
to the red carpet by dressing exactly like their characters, Glinda and Elphaba.For her part, in a . The body of the dress is strapless and extremely figure-hugging, and is adorned with a voluminous train and two enormously puffed sleeves for which the word “generous” is a serious understatement. She kept the girly vibes going with a pink jewel pendant necklace and matching earrings and a curly blonde ponytail.Erivo, meanwhile, didn't go so far as actually painting her skin green, but she definitely did the Emerald City justice in Louis Vuitton.
First Lady Jill Biden‘s guests at President Joe Biden‘s State of the Union address tonight will include Maria Shriver, singer and civil rights advocate Bettie Mae Fikes and UAW President Shawn Fain.
Justice have shared a pulsing new single called ‘Incognito’ – check it out below.Shared today (March 6), the single comes as the latest preview of the French electronic duo’s eagerly-anticipated new album ‘Hyperdrama’ – which is set for release on April 26.The song captures various motifs throughout its four minutes, shifting into different ideas and continuing the theme of the “unexpected” which will run throughout the new LP.To start, ‘Incognito’ opens with a cinematic melody, before abruptly changing just 30 seconds in, plunging listeners into a more uptempo “synth-laden odyssey”. The sound captured at the start of the track then returns as surprisingly as it left – coming back for the final 30 seconds.“Like many songs on this record, it switches from all electronic to all human music abruptly, multiple times within its four-minute run,” members Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay said of the song.