'Ninjababy': Film Review | SXSW 2021

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThis year’s Outfest Fusion QTBIPOC Film Festival will include 10 feature and 41 short films.Among the feature titles are “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” “Caught,” “Crystal Diaries,” “Chosen Fam,” “Forgotten Roads,” “Kapana,” “Ma Belle, My Beauty,” “Nowhere,” “See You Then,” “Summertime” and “Unapologetic.”The shorts include “Mariam,” about a young Arab American amateur drag queen, and “God’s Daughter Dances,” the story of a trans woman in South

Angelique Jackson Film and television producer Will Packer will serve as the jury president for the 2021 American Black Film Festival (ABFF).The annual festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with a hybrid model, with live events held Nov. 3-7 in Miami Beach, Fla., followed by a week of virtual events on abffplay.com (available from Nov.

With vaccines getting distributed pretty damn fast in the US, we’re starting to see some cities begin to recover and make plans for in-person events in the summer and fall. In the world of film festivals, it appears that the first event to really attempt a full in-person experience is going to be this year’s Tribeca.

The Smiths has led to confusion for fans of the band.Shoplifters of the World is focused on a bunch of friends who are huge fans of the Manchester group – though when the band break up in 1987, one of the characters holds up a radio station and demands they play Smiths songs.The film’s trailer went viral over the weekend in the wake of the film’s US release, with many of the group’s fans reacting in horror.“Someone appears to have thought taking the plot of the Alan Partridge film and setting it

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticAs a critic committed to maintaining a certain professional distance with those whose work I might review, I don’t often play the fan in the presence of filmmakers.

No matter what happens at the upcoming Academy Awards, the new Sacha Baron Cohen film is already a winner.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Four Latin American women producers, each of them leading voices in their respective countries, found kinship and solidarity at the Sanfic Industry panel Women Film Producers: Expanding Gazes.They also realized that there were still many issues to resolve, especially gender parity in the entertainment sector.Hosted by Chile’s premier audiovisual industry event on March 25, the panel included Sanfic Industry Head and Storyboard Media producer Gabriela Sandoval of Chile

Lee Daniels has got a lot of irons in the fire.

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. studio veteran Ravi Mehta has been named Head of Physical Production, Post-Production, VFX at 20th Century Studios. Mehta will oversee all aspects of physical production for the Disney-owned 20th Century studios film division.

Ted Hope, the former co-head at Amazon Movies, is set to join Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management. The indie film guru will become a professor of practice in the new graduate entertainment and creative industries program.

Also Read: Alan Robert Murray, Oscar-Winning Sound Editor on 'American Sniper' and 'Joker,' Dies at 66“Cry Macho” also stars Eduardo Minett and Dwight Yoakam. The producers alongside Clint are Albert S.

That the documentary United States vs. Reality Winner achieves its primary goals makes it a fairly successful film.

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. And now I'm reading Bringing Up Bébé, which is actually fantastic.

Ben Croll As she developed her sophomore feature, director Yngvild Sve Flikke sought to evoke the messiness of life. “I’m a restless person,” the Scandinavian filmmaker tells Variety.

“A little bit of justice being served in a sea of injustice” is how cultural critic and interviewee Naomi Fry describes the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal and why it seized the nation’s attention for a few pre-pandemic weeks. The gap between the myth of American meritocracy and the reality of the have-everythings cheating or gaming the system to hoard even more resources has seldom been more glaring than in this case.

The American Black Film Festival is set to go ahead with a 10-day hybrid event amid the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, organizer ABFF Ventures said the film festival will return to Miami Beach for an in-person 25th edition to run from Nov.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe Writers Guild of America West and East today unveiled a line-up of presenters scheduled to appear at the 2021 Writers Guild Awards joint virtual ceremony on Sunday, March 21.Among the presenters are Oscar contenders Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”), Sacha Baron Cohen ( “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”) and Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday.”)Also presenting are Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs.