PBS Wins Four Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKino Lorber has acquired North American rights for Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature “Murina” which won the Golden Camera Award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.Executive produced by Martin Scorsese and lushing lensed by Hélène Louvart (“The Lost Daughter”), “Murina” will be playing on opening night of the First Look Festival at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.“Murina” is a tense and sensual tale about a restless teenager, Julija, whose urge to break free from her oppressive father and isolated existence in coastal Croatia is triggered by the visit of a family friend. Variety‘s Jessica Kiang wrote in her review that “If Patricia Highsmith had ever written a coming-of-age story set on the rocky, clear-watered Croatian coastline, it might have looked a lot like Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s bright, brooding debut.” The movie also boasts a breakthrough performance by Gracija Filipovic, a promising young actor and professional swimmer who was one of this year’s 10 Shooting Stars at the Berlinale.

NEW YORK -- Historian Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, has received a $50,000 honor from the New York-Historical Society.Taylor's “American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850” has won the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, the society announced Friday. Previous winners include Robert Caro, Gordon Wood and Jill Lepore.“Alan Taylor’s American Republics richly illustrates how the difficulties surrounding our nation’s birth were as complicated and vexing as the issues that challenge and divide us today,” Dr.

Andrew Garfield suits up for a special screening and conversation of tick, tick…Boom held at 92nd Street Y on Tuesday night (February 22) in New York City.

Ximena and Mike's case, absence did not make the heart grow fonder. In this exclusive clip from Sunday's new episode of, Mike returns to Colombia to see his fiancée, Ximena, and she clearly isn't as enamored with him as she was when he left to go back to the United States after proposing to her.During Mike's trip to Colombia to meet Ximena in person after connecting on a dating app, the two ended up getting engaged even though Ximena had reservations about him — mainly, she was disgusted by his habits like not cleaning up after himself and burping and farting in front of her (which he blamed on his ADHD), and she also wasn't physically attracted to him.

Chris Willman Music WriterGirl in Red, aka Marie Ulven, the Norwegian singer/songwriter who has achieved considerable acclaim and racked up solid streaming results in the indie realm, has signed with Columbia Records.The label confirmed the signing to Variety. The news was first reported by Hits.After a series of digital songs and EPs, Girl in Red released her first full-length album, “If I Could Make It Go Quiet,” last spring.

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Miranda Lambert is ready to be a mama.The country singer and husband Brendan McLoughlin have "recently started trying to get pregnant," a source told Us Weekly.The "Heart Like Mine" singer and the former New York City police officer celebrated their third anniversary last month."She and Brendan decided after their third wedding anniversary, they would start trying," Us' source added. "Miranda is thrilled and Brendan has always wanted to [have kids with her]."Parenting isn't a foreign concept to the duo, as Brendan already has one child, a son, with ex Kaihla Rettinger.

Orville Peck has shared the first four tracks from his forthcoming second album, ‘Bronco’, releasing an EP dubbed ‘Chapter 1’ today (February 11).Leading the pack is a smoky, retro-tinged love song titled ‘C’mon Baby, Cry’, which serves as the lead single from ‘Bronco’, and comes alongside a video directed by Austin Peters. The other tracks released as part of ‘Chapter 1’ are the album’s opener, ‘Daytona Sand’, the western slow-burner ‘Outta Time’ and the barnstorming ‘Any Turn’.Check out the video for ‘C’mon Baby, Cry’ below, then stream the rest of the ‘Chapter 1’ EP: ‘Bronco’ – the follow-up to Peck’s 2019 debut, ‘Pony’ – is slated to drop on April 8 via Columbia.

Nathan Chen has won Olympic gold!

Congratulations are in order for Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim!

BRIT Awards for a star-studded celebration of the industry.Heading into the big night, Adele and Ed Sheeran led the pack with four noms each — alongside artists Dave and Little Simz — in a year where more female artists were nominated for awards than any time before.Throughout the gala event — hosted by comedian Mo Gilligan and presented by the British Phonographic Industry — the show doled out the trophies with some surprising and well-deserved victories.Check out the full list of the show's big winners below.   Adele, Columbia, Sony Music Dave, Dave Neighbourhood, Universal Music Ed Sheeran, Asylum, Warner Music Little Simz, Age 101/Awal Sam Fender, Polydor, Universal Music Coldplay, Parlophone, Warner Music D-Block Europe, D-Block Europe, Universal Music Little Mix, RCA, Sony Music London Grammar, Ministry Of Sound, Sony Music Bree Runway EMI, Universal Music Lola Young, Island, Universal Music “Latest Trends,” A1 & J1 “Don’t Play" Anne-Marie/KSI/Digital Farm Animals “Remember,” Becky Hill & David Guetta “Obsessed With You,” Central Cee  “Clash,” Dave featuring Stormzy “Bad Habits,” Ed Sheeran “Cold Heart (Pnau Mix),” Elton John & Dua Lipa «Heat Waves,” Glass Animals “Bed,” Joel Corry/Raye/David Guetta, “Holiday,” KSI “Wellerman,” Nathan Evans/220Kid/Billen Ted “Friday (Dopamine Re-Edit)» Riton X Nightcrawlers feat.

Cinema Guild has acquired U.S. rights to Cane Fire, an award-winning documentary from director Anthony Banua-Simon, with plans to release it in theaters across the U.S., beginning with a New York theatrical premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on May 20.

Go team go! Team USA has a long history of winning at the Winter Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Games are no different.

Amy Schneider has a few big plans on deck now that her run on Jeopardy! has come to an end. The 42-year-old contestant revealed that she’s not rushing to spend all of her $1.4 million winnings at once, but she does have a few big purchase in mind to treat herself after the historic run. Amy revealed that she has travel on the mind in a Thursday February 2 interview with The New York Post.

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Marta Balaga Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina’s “Eami” – being sold by MPM Premium – has won the top Tiger Award and a €40,000 cash prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the festival announced Wednesday. The 51st edition of the Dutch event, forced online due to the Omicron wave, will wrap on Sunday.The jury, made up of Zsuzsi Bankuti, Gust Van den Berghe, Tatiana Leite, Thekla Reuten and Farid Tabarki, was impressed with her complex, magical realist take on the suffering of the indigenous tribes, calling it a “powerful film.” “It gave us the opportunity to dream and, at the same time, a chance to wake up,” they stated.Inspired by the stories of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people, as well as their mythology, Encina created a tale about a young girl who embarks on a journey after her village is destroyed.