Stacey Abrams to Receive Tribeca Film Festival’s Inaugural Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award

Jodie Foster will be honored two-fold at the Cannes Film Festival this year, as the actress-director is set to be the guest of honor at the opening ceremony and will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or.In receiving the award, Foster will have a bit of a full-circle moment. When she first attended Cannes as a teenager in 1976, Foster presented Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” which won the Palme d’Or that year.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterA new documentary from comedian Dave Chappelle has been set to close out this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.The still-untitled movie takes a glimpse into the challenges facing a rural village in Ohio during the early days of the pandemic and grapples with the emotions erupting across the nation following the Black Lives Matter movement.

Next month’s Tribeca Film Festival will close with a still-untitled documentary produced by comedian Dave Chappelle about the issues confronting a rural Ohio town in 2020.

The Tribeca Festival said Thursday that Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming crime drama No Sudden Move will have its world premiere as the Centerpiece Gala at this year’s festival, which is set to run June 9-20 as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.

NEW YORK -- Nearly 20 years after self-publishing her first novels, Stacey Abrams is hitting full stride as a writer.The voting rights activist, grassroots organizer and former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate has a deal for two political thrillers, Doubleday and Anchor Books announced Thursday. The new novels will bring back the gifted and intrepid law clerk Avery Keene from Abrams' current work, “While Justice Sleeps," which came out last week and is already a No.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSteven Soderbergh’s upcoming crime thriller “No Sudden Move” will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.The film is set to screen on June 18 — at The Battery in New York City — as the festival’s centerpiece gala selection. The cast of “No Sudden Move” is expected to make an appearance at the outdoor event, which is taking place as part of Tribeca’s 12-day celebration to reopen the city and bring back live entertainment.

Cat’s out of the bag. Steven Soderbergh‘s upcoming 1950-set crime thriller, “No Sudden Move” will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June.

Amazon flipped for Sylvie’s Love when the indie film played Sundance. In many ways it’s a throwback to the kind of romantic, sun-kissed movies Hollywood regularly once made, but with a twist. This one starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha has two Black leads doing the romancing, and outside of less than a handful of films in the 1950s and ’60s time period where it is set, that never happened in the Hollywood of that era.

The prestigious Cannes Film Festival, which got canceled in 2020 due to the COVID outbreak has delayed its official press conference by one week. As per a report in Variety, the highly anticipated press conference will now occur on June 3.

Bucks and Lakers big man — as well as the league's all-time leading scorer — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and recognize the player that strives for social justice and racial equality.«It's nice to see the NBA try to promote social justice awareness, and I am very flattered they would see fit to name the award after me,» Abdul-Jabbar, 74, told The Undefeated.

Ahead of the pic’s June 16 world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, Netflix has snapped up the Blumhouse TV and Ryan Murphy executive produced documentary Pray Away which investigates the enduring harm of conversion therapy and the “pray the gay away” movement. An August release on the streamer is currently set.

LOS ANGELES -- Stacey Abrams' new political thriller was snapped up for a small-screen adaptation.The rights for “While Justice Sleeps" will go to Working Title Television, part of NBCUniversal International Studios, it was announced Tuesday, the day of the novel's release by Penguin Random House.Abrams will serve as an executive producer for the project, which is based on the first work published under the name of the politician, activist and writer.

One of Stacey Abrams‘s novels is headed to the small screen.

“While Justice Sleeps,” Stacey Abrams (Doubleday)“While Justice Sleeps” is a deftly written page-turner — understated action, vivid characters and a tense, plausible plot.The author, a former Georgia House of Representatives member and current political miracle worker Stacey Abrams has created a political thriller: Supreme Court justice Howard Wynn, suffering from a rare illness, falls into a coma, leaving his young law clerk, Avery Keene, as his legal guardian with power of attorney.Keene soon

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Stacey Abrams’ latest novel, “While Justice Sleeps,” will be adapted for a series by Working Title Television, part of NBCUniversal International Studios. The announcement comes after a high-stakes bidding war for the former member of the Georgia House of Representatives and fervent voting activist’s new legal thriller.

Working Title Television has nabbed the rights to Stacey Abrams’ new novel While Justice Sleeps.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJust under a year ago, as protests gripped the U.S.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe casts of “Fargo,” “Raging Bull,” “The Five Heartbeats,” and “The Royal Tenenbaums” will reunite at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.In addition, the festival, which is returning to in-person events after COVID scrambled plans for the 2020 edition, will host talks with the likes of Bradley Cooper, Amy Schumer, Gina Prince-Bythewood, M.

NEW YORK -- Nothing like a prominent life in public service to help your other career as a romance novelist.At least that's the case for Stacey Abrams.Berkley announced Tuesday that it had acquired rights to three out-of-print novels by Abrams that she had written nearly 20 years ago under the name Selena Montgomery.