Shaka King Named Film Independent Spirit Awards’ Honorary Chair

For his Oscar-nominated short documentary Do Not Split, director Anders Hammer spent a year in Hong Kong’s streets, capturing the drama and chaos as China cracked down on pro-democracy protests. The work came with inherent danger.

the independence debate and offering voters "very little else". Rennie made the remarks after a poll published yesterday predicted that Alex Salmond’s new party will be elected to Holyrood as part of a huge majority of pro-independence MSPs.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNorwegian director Anders Hammer did not set out to make another war film when he traveled to Hong Kong in 2019 to document the political protests that had brought an estimated two million people to the streets of self-proclaimed Asia’s World City.Hammer has previously chronicled real, hot war situations in Kabul and Iraq. There, bullets and rockets were flying daily, and more lives were in imminent danger.

Jimmy Fallon and Addison Rae caught backlash after performing dances on "The Tonight Show" without crediting the Black creators that came up with the routines.  The TikTok star appeared on the late-night show Friday to perform a series of eight dances that have been taking the popular social media site by storm.

Halle Berry, Selena Gomez, Gabrielle Union and more are sending their support to trans women and girls. The stars are among over 440 signatories of an open letter supporting the community, in observance of Women’s History Month and Transgender Day of Visibility.

Halle Berry,Selena Gomez, Gabrielle Union and more are sending their support to trans women and girls.

G. Gordon Liddy, a central Watergate figure who spent more than four years in prison but went on to appear in a number of TV series, a few films and hosted a radio talk show for two decades, died Tuesday in Virginia, his son Thomas told media outlets. He was 90.

TheHong Kong International Film Festivalhas scrapped its opening-night world premiere of Where the Wind Blows, a widely anticipated crime thriller directed by local industry veteran Philip Yung.

Vivienne Chow Dedicating her time and energy to strategizing ticket purchases for a young idol was never part of Chung Ling’s life plans. This 40-something-year-old working mother says she gave up on Hong Kong’s once huge Cantonese-language pop scene, a decade ago.

Derek Tsang's youth drama Better Days, nominated this year for the best international film Oscar, has given Hong Kong its first shot at Academy Awards glory since Farewell My Concubine got the nod in 1993. But in a mysterious move, it appears that the Oscars ceremony is set to go unaired in Hong Kong for the first time in over 50 years.

Bloomberg).But the move comes amid reports that China’s Communist party told all local media outlets to downplay live coverage of the ceremony stemming from the nomination of the documentary short “Do Not Split,” which focuses on the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and past comments made by Chinese-born “Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao.Other local TV broadcasters in Hong Kong also do not have the broadcast rights, as reported by the Hong Kong news outlet The Standard.Also Read: Why

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Hong Kong International Film Festival has announced the cancelation of its world premiere screening of crime thriller “Where the Wind Blows.” The move appears to be part of the accelerating ‘mainlandization’ of Hong Kong’s entertainment industry.The festival said Monday evening in a statement that screenings of “Where the Wind Blows” (previously known “Theory of Ambitions”) had been cancelled at the request of the film’s owner.“Upon request from the film

Vivienne Chow An award-winning documentary about Hong Kong’s 2019 protests that has been effectively banned in its hometown has been set as the showpiece of the Taiwan International Documentary Festival.“Inside the Red Brick Wall” will play as the festival’s opening film, organizers announced on Thursday. The festival is set to run April 30 – May 9, 2021.The film chronicles the 13-day standoff between police and protesters at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University in November 2019.

Below Deck Sailing Yacht’s leading man Captain Glenn Shephard is familiar with a steamy boat romance. While he has no problems with them on his charter, he thinks what’s going on between deckhand Sydney Zaruba and first officer Gary King isn’t easy. “All I’m going to say is that’s a really complicated situation,” Capt. Glenn told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY during an episode of TVTalk on Instagram Live on March 22. “It gets complicated during the season.”

Hong Kong protests was nominated for an award, according to a new report. The Communist Party’s propaganda department issued the order to all media outlets, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources.

Judas and the Black Messiah writer-director Shaka King has been named honorary chair at the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards. The news comes a day after Judas and the Black Messiah nabbed six Oscar nominations, including a best original screenplay nom for King.

Spirit Awards website, King launched his tenure in the job by revealing the winners of three cash grants worth a total of $75,000 to emerging filmmakers.“Farewell Amor” director Ekwa Msangi received the Someone to Watch Award, which, according to Film Independent, goes to “talented filmmakers of singular vision who have not yet received appropriate recognition.” The other nominees in the category were “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain” director David Midell and “Bull” director Annie

referendum is unavoidable in the event of a Holyrood majority for the party.Ahead of the Prime Minister’s virtual appearance at the online Scottish Conservative conference this weekend, one idea floated by Downing Street is that MPs from the Commons could sit in Scotland for a fortnight every September.One problem, the SNP said, is that the Holyrood parliament will be fully occupied by MSPs during that time.Pete Wishart MP said the idea of touring the Commons was “laughable”.Wishart said: “Not