Producer Angel Amigo Brings Courtroom Sketch Tech to ETA Documentary ‘Voices From the Imperfect Past’

Celebs were keeping busy this week, from Emilia Clarke, Angela Bassett and more partnering for the sixth annual Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program, to Demi Lovato showing off a tie-dye look in a selfie, to Delilah Belle Hamlin taking a stroll in London.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: MGM has set a Sammy Davis Jr. biopic that will be based on Sammy Davis Jr.: My Father, a 1996 book written by Davis’ daughter Tracey Davis and Dolores A.

coronavirus pandemic.

Jamie Lang After years working in film and theater, celebrated Spanish author, screenwriter and filmmaker Roberto Santiago (“The Longest Penalty Shot In The World”) has returned to TV to adapt his bestselling novel “Ana” for the small screen, starring Spanish star Maribel Verdú (“Y Tu Mamá También,” “Pan’s Labyrinth”).Angela Armero (“Velvet”) co-wrote the series adaptation with Santiago, and award-winning film and TV vets Gracia Querejeta (“Cuando vuelvas a mi lado”) and Salvador García Ruiz

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIt is fitting in many ways that Movistar Plus’ “Riot Police” (“Antidisturbios”) saw its world premiere in a theater at one of Europe’s biggest film festivals: September’s San Sebastian in Spain.Feted by the domestic press — “the best Spanish series of the year,” trumpeted newspaper El Mundo — the Movistar Plus original series has closed sales to France and Latin America with “partners of the highest caliber,” “Riot Police” producer Domingo Corral,

Atresplayer Premium, the OTT platform run by Spanish media conglom Atresmedia, is prepping TV series “La Ruta,” teaming with Caballo Films, the production outfit whose partners include filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen, the co-creator of Movistar Plus’ hit “Riot Police.”“La Ruta” – a working title – is set on the La Ruta del Bakalao, a legendary zone of nightclubs lining some 19 miles of a CV-500 secondary road between the Spanish coastal city of Valencia and its beaches to its south.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentArgentina and Mexico-based Jaque Content, originator of suspense drama series “The Cleaning Lady,” now set to become a Warner Bros.-produced U.S. drama pilot, has clinched a strategic alliance with Spain’s Grupo Black Panther.Marking Jaque’s first European beachhead, the partnership will see the two companies targeting fiction production, playing off an emerging co-production triangle linking Spain, Latin America and the U.S.

Ed Meza @edmezavarThe life of Germany’s first gentleman will be the focus of a new comedy series currently in development at Berlin-based Readymade Films, maker of local hit “MaPa.”Joachim Sauer, a quantum chemist and professor of physical and theoretical chemistry, is also the husband of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorCharter Communications’ Spectrum Originals and ITV are co-producing a Hitchcockian psychological thriller in which Golden Globe-winning Downton Abbey star Joanne Froggatt will play a victim of domestic abuse.Produced by Fleabag maker Two Brothers Pictures, the six-part series features Froggatt as Angela Black, a woman with an apparently idyllic life, who is actually being tormented by her husband, Olivier.Angela is approached out of the blue by Ed, a private

being produced under COVID-19 guidelines, combining elements of that production including powerful readings from Coates’ book and documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.Other new cast members just added are Mimi Jones, Ledisi, Greg Alverez Reid, Nate Smith and Olivia Washington.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorMahershala Ali, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Angela Davis, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Mimi Jones, Ledisi, Greg Alverez Reid, Nate Smith and Olivia Washington round out the cast of Between The World And Me, HBO’s adaptation of the stage show based on Coates’ New York Times bestseller. Additionally, the premium cabler has slotted Saturday, November 15 at 8 PM ET/PT for the premiere of the special, which was produced under COVID-19 guidelines.

Jamie Lang Amazon Prime Video hosted a San Sebastian press conference for its new Spanish docu-series “The Challenge: ETA,” sharing a new trailer for the program and announcing that the series will be made available to stream around the world on Oct.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterViacomCBS Entertainment & Youth Group has established the First Time Directors program for BIPOC and female filmmakers, Variety has learned exclusively.Under the program, 50 films across Paramount Network, MTV, Comedy Central and the Group’s portfolio will be helmed by first time BIPOC filmmakers and female directors. ViacomCBS has partnered with a number of high-profile executive producers through the program, including Angela Bassett and Courtney B.

Matt Dillon holds hand with Roberta Mastromichele while attending The Great Fellove premiere during the 2020 San Sebastian International Film Festival held at the Victoria Eugenia Theater on Tuesday evening (September 22) in Spain.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles and Oslo-based management outfit Inner Voice Artists has signed Yago and Carlo Munoz Osio, aka the Munoz Brothers, the Mexican directing duo behind indie pic Paper Boats.The film premiered at HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival in 2019, where it won the Best Feature Award, and also screened at the Indie and Foreign Film Festival in NY among others.

Jamie Lang One of Spanish pay TV Movistar Plus’ most ambitious pushes into original, international TV yet, the 20th Century-spanning period drama “Tell Me Who I Am,” will headline Monday evening’s Movistar Gala at the San Sebastian Film Festival, screening episodes out of competition.Director Eduard Cortés will be joined on the red carpet by lead actors Irene Escolar and Oriel Pla, screenwriter and author of book on which the series is based Julia Navarro, producer José Luis Escolar, executive