Michelle Latimer Bows Doc ‘Inconvenient Indian,’ TV Series at Toronto

Serena Williams stepped down from the 2020 French Open due to a previously unhealed ankle injury.The 39-year-old tennis star announced the news to reporters at the annual Paris tournament on Wednesday, September 30, detailing the effects of her sprain. Williams was set to play Bulgarian pro Tsvetana Pironkova in her second-round match that afternoon after scoring a win over Kristie Ahn two days prior.“I love playing in Paris,” the 23-time Grand Slam winner told the press room.

Naman Ramachandran Stuart Ford’s AGC International has closed several global territories on “The Father,” starring Donnie Yen (the “Ip Man” franchise, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”), directed by Tommy Wirkola (“Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters”)Deals closed at the virtual Toronto market include with Leonine in Germany and Switzerland; Metropolitan in France; DeAPlaneta in Spain; Nordisk in Scandinavia; Rialto Distribution & Vertigo Releasing in Australia & New Zealand; Signature Entertainment in

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Netflix wasn’t alone in cooking up a storm at the recent Toronto film market. STX International, now known as ErosSTX International as a result of the merger between Indian major Eros and U.S.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Pathé's Venice-bowing comedy-drama The Duke for a range of territories worldwide, including the U.S. The distributor also picked up the film —starring Oscar winners Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren —for Latin America, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe (excluding Poland, the Czech Republic and the former Yugoslavia), Russia/CIS, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, South Africa, India and Southeast Asia (excluding Japan and China).

Chloe Zhao's Nomadland picked up the top People's Choice honor on Sunday at the pandemic-era Toronto Film Festival, which wrapped on Saturday. The Frances McDormand-starrer was named the top audience prize winner in Toronto, which is often a barometer of future Academy Award nominations.

“Nomadland” is the winner of this year’s People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Also Read: 'Nomadland' Film Review: Frances McDormand Hits the Road in Quiet, Lyrical DramaOver the last eight years in a row, and nine of the last 10 years, the TIFF People’s Choice winner has gone on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and has won three times: “The King’s Speech” in 2010, “12 Years a Slave” in 2013 and “Green Book” in 2018.

“If you are the big tree, we are the small axe,” states a Jamaican proverb, inspiring the title of “Small Axe”, an upcoming anthology series from director Steve McQueen for Amazon Prime Video.

Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins discussed his coming-of-age drama Moonlight at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday by dissecting the swimming lesson scene that comes early on in the Oscar-winning movie. "The physical swimming is a very small part.

Michele Morrone steps out for a walk around town with friend Jon Kortajarena on Wednesday (September 16) in Paris, France.

As Netflix's Indian Matchmaking reality show stirs debate around the Indian custom of arranged marriages, David Garrett and his U.K.-based Mister Smith Entertainment banner is attached to produce Dating After Marriage, a true life drama written by and starring Prem Singh and Michael Pugliese, via their Running Tiger Films banner.

Also Read: 'Nomadland' Film Review: Frances McDormand Hits the Road in Quiet, Lyrical DramaThe film begins with three sentences, and they’re all the context you’ll get and all the context you’ll need: “After the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the end of the First World War, the colonial powers sketched new borders for the Middle East. Over the following decades, greed and ambition for power gave rise to military coups, corrupt regimes, authoritarian leaders and foreign interference.

Super hot Italian actor Michele Morrone, who you may know from Netflix‘s film 365 DNI, looks like a total model while walking his way through the airport.

Métis/Algonquin filmmaker Michelle Latimer premiered her documentary “Inconvenient Indian”, based on Thomas King’s award-winning book, at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday.

Cuties director Maïmouna Doucouré has defended her French indie film on Netflix from accusations that it hyper-sexualizes prepubescent girls, as she argued her directorial debut aimed at social commentary and change. "It's because I saw so many things and so many issues around me lived by young girls, that I decided to make this film and sound an alarm and say, 'We need to protect our children,'" Doucouré told a TIFF panel on French filmmakers Monday.

Canadian director Michelle Latimer says she was intimidated when first adapting as a documentary Thomas King’s bookInconvenient Indian, in which the America-born Canadian writer meditates on what it means to be "Indian" in North America. "I don't consider myself a historian, or an academic," Latimer, a Metis/Algonquin filmmaker, tells The Hollywood Reporter ahead of her film's world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItaly’s Iervolino Entertainment is boasting a slew of international sales on Ciro Guerra-directed drama “Waiting for the Barbarians,” toplining Johnny Depp and starring Robert Pattinson, Mark Rylance, Gana Bayarsaikhan and Greta Scacchi.The adaptation of J.M.

Ben Croll Faced with a transforming marketplace still spooked by uncertainty, the French exporters accompanying their films to Toronto have looked to past experience, new practices and brand-name identification in order to launch their titles in such highly unpredictable times.“It’s a day-by-day learning process,” says Alice Lesort, head of international sales at Les Films du Losange.