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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe popular social media app TikTok will be the focus of a new feature documentary from “Coded Bias” director Shalini Kantayya.The film is the latest offering from the team behind Hulu’s upcoming “WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn,” which is set to premiere at this year’s SXSW. It’s being produced by Campfire, Forbes Entertainment and Olive Hill Media and will be based on Forbes’ reporting.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaMTV Documentary Films has acquired North American rights to “Sabaya,” the story of volunteers of the Yazidi Home Center, who risk their lives in order to save women and girls held by ISIS as sex slaves.The film received a directing award for world cinema documentary when it premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. “Sabaya” is directed and produced by Stockholm-based filmmaker Hogir Hirori and also produced by Antonio Russo Merenda.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNamir Smallwood and Sidney Flanigan will star in “Rounding,” a new dramatic thriller from “Saint Frances” director Alex Thompson. “Rounding” follows a driven young medical resident (Smallwood) who transfers to a rural hospital for a fresh start.

Christopher Vourlias Dogwoof has taken U.K. rights to the Sundance World Documentary Cinema selection “Taming the Garden,” from Georgian director Salomé Jashi.

There's a gorgeous scene early in Petite Maman that epitomizes the unfussy economy and emotional perceptiveness of Céline Sciamma's films. Watching intently from the back seat of the family car as her mother climbs in, stifling tears, and they head off to begin packing up the home of the maternal grandmother who has recently died, the film's 8-year-old protagonist asks permission to break out the snacks.

Michael Sheen has met his match: Catherine Zeta-Jones.Zeta-Jones makes her Prodigal Son debut on Tuesday's episode as Dr. Vivian Capshaw, Claremont Psychiatric’s resident M.D., and her introduction is anything boring.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLess is More (LIM), a European development scheme for limited-budget feature films, has unveiled its selection of 16 projects, a majority of which are from women filmmakers and talents coming from theatre, visual arts or documentary. In spite of the pandemic, the 7th edition received as many as 350 applications from more than 70 countries.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe British playwright, director and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah has signed with CAA and Redefine Entertainment.He currently serves as the artistic director for the Young Vic in London and was previously artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIMDbPro is making it easier for entertainment industry professionals to find their next gig. The subscription database has added thousands of cast and crew notices through Staff Me Up, a resource for finding production work, and Casting Calls America, a more regionally focused list of acting jobs.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe Creeper is back and looking for blood.“Jeepers Creepers: Reborn,” the fourth installment in the long-running horror franchise, has sold worldwide distribution rights to Screen Media.The studio plans to release the film in North America in the fall of 2021. Screen Media previously released “Jeepers Creepers 3.”The latest installment in the series is from director Timo Vuorensola, who previously oversaw the “Iron Sky” films.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaCalleri Casting is being renamed Calleri Jensen Davis.The rechristening is taking place as a nod to the fact that the company has become triumvirate of co-equals, with James Calleri Erica Jensen, and Paul Davis all operating as full partners.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAustralia-based theatrical producer Michael Cassel Group is planting a flag in the United States. The company has made its first New York City-based hire, tapping Jane Abramson to serve as its new head of creative development.

Fresh off Sundance and a series of compelling interviews about how she chronicled the Covid-19 outbreak in China and its rampage across the the U.S., Nanfu Wang’s In the Same Breath will have its New York premiere as the opening film in the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight 2021.

Fresh off Sundance and a series of compelling interviews about how she chronicled the Covid-19 outbreak in China and its rampage across the the U.S., Nanju Wang’s In the Same Breath will have its New York premiere as the opening film in the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight 2021.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaPaul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, the Oscar-nominated screenwriters behind “The Fighter” and “The Outpost,” are on board to adapt “Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II,” a best-seller from Adam Makos.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaGood Deed Entertainment has nabbed North American rights to “Ma Belle, My Beuaty,” a queer polyamorous love story that was embraced by critics when it debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.The film, which marks Marion Hill’s directorial feature film debut, won the Audience Award in the NEXT category at the festival.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Moonstruck” and “Wild Mountain Thyme” writer John Patrick Shanley is no stranger to complicated family dynamics.The Oscar and Pulitzer-winning author will explore sibling rivalry with “The Twinkle Brothers.” The upcoming comedy, which Shanley will write and direct for Rivulet Media, recounts a story told by avuncular café owner Mordecai, who, when tasked with the responsibility of looking after his precocious six-year-old granddaughter Rita for an

The Just for Laughs comedy festival, run by a consortium led by ICM and Howie Mandel, has unveiled plans for a hybrid 39th edition this summer amid the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, fest organizers said the traditionally in-person festival in Montreal will return to its annual dates from July 15-31, 2021.

Cecil Hotel’s nefarious past is back in the spotlight thanks to Netflix’s latest true-crime documentary, “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel”.

true-crime documentary,. The four-part series directed by Joe Berlinger explores how the notorious Los Angeles establishment became associated with suicide and murder through the lens of guest Elisa Lam’s disappearance and mysterious death in 2013. Amy Price, the hotel’s general manager from 2007 to 2017, opens up to ET about why she is speaking out for the first time about her experiences working at the Cecil.