Sundance Announces Fellowship and Scholarship for AAPI Artists

Jamie has announced shows for her upcoming tour in North America.On August 23, concert organisers MODO-Live shared the dates for Jamie’s upcoming North American tour, which will take place in seven cities across the US and Canada this October. The tour is set to kick off on October 10 in Los Angeles, before hitting Canadian cities Vancouver and Toronto and returning to the US.More information and tickets can be found here.

Ryan “R.K.” Russell and boyfriend Corey O’Brien are still going strong after more than three years of dating!

Janey Godley has announced her return to live comedy for the first time since she underwent treatment for cancer.

Sabrina Carpenter is taking her newest album "emails i can't send' on tour in 2022. Carpenter's tour announcement comes right at the heels of the end of Olivia Rodrigo's "Sour" tour, which wrapped up in July.

Kym Marsh has revealed she headed on an exciting trip with her daughter after she was announced as one of this year's contestants on Strictly Come Dancing. The former Coronation Street star was the second celebrity to be announced for the BBC One dance contest earlier this month.

Wilco have shared a fourth preview for the forthcoming reissue of their seminal 2001 album ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ – a “live in the studio” take of the song ‘Ashes Of American Flags’ – alongside the news of their first-ever shows in Iceland.The newly unearthed recording was tracked for WXRT’s Sound Opinions series, which saw Wilco perform a series of five ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ cuts on September 18, 2001. The full session – which also includes six interview tracks – will be presented as one of eight CDs (or 11 vinyl records) in the “super deluxe” reissue of ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’, which is due out on September 16 via Nonesuch.Have a listen to ‘Ashes Of American Flags (Live In The Studio)’ below:‘Ashes Of American Flags (Live In The Studio)’ is the fourth song to be shared from the “super deluxe” reissue of ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’, following live recordings of ‘Reservations’ and ‘Pot Kettle Black’, and a demo of ‘Kamera’ dubbed the ‘Unified Theory Of Everything’ version.The full release will sport a total of 102 tracks, including a newly remastered version of the original 11-song effort.

Extra innings? Abbi Jacobson has a lot of stories to tell in Prime Video’s A League of Their Own — and is making it count in season 1.

Abbi Jacobson is making A League of Their Own — her own. The Broad City alum is accomplishing what she set out to do by exploring topics of sexuality and racism in her new Prime Video adaptation of the 1992 film of the same name.

Angelique Jackson Following news that the award-winning documentary “Descendant” will screen as an official selection at the 60th New York Film Festival, Variety can exclusively announce that the film will launch Oct. 21 on Netflix and in select theaters.Directed by Margaret Brown (“The Order of Myths,” “Be Here to Love Me: Townes Van Zandt,” “The Great Invisible”), the documentary follows members of Africatown, a small community in Alabama, as they share their personal stories and community history as descendants of the Clotilda, the last known ship illegally carrying enslaved Africans to the United States.

Inspired by the true story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which operated from 1943 to 1954, Penny Marshall’s 1992 film “A League of Their Own” is a ’90s comedy classic starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Rosie O’Donnell, and Madonna. It spawned a short-lived television show of the same name and was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2012 for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”  READ MORE: The Best TV Of 2022… So Far For many people of a certain age, the film was not just a foundational text but a movie so ubiquitous in their lives that they can’t remember life without it.

industries have a significant role to play in properly highlighting these stories through investingin AAPI artists,” said Carrie Lozano, Director of Documentary Film and Artist Programs at SundanceInstitute. “Our Fellowship in collaboration with TAAF was created for this purpose.

The Sundance Institute has partnered with The Asian American Foundation to launch a new fellowship and scholarship, which will look to improve AAPI representation in the film and television industries over the long term by providing up-and-coming AAPI artists with the creative and tactical support necessary to grow professionally.

Central Cee has announced a world tour for later this year, which includes a London and Dublin show – tickets will be available here.The rapper, who released his second mixtape ’23’ in February, will hit the road for a run of North American headline shows in October before heading to Europe at the end of that month.His European leg includes stop-offs in cities such as Madrid (October 31), Barcelona (November 1), Paris (7), Amsterdam (10), Berlin (13) and Stockholm (17).On November 20, Central Cee will take to the stage at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin ahead of returning to the UK to play Alexandra Palace in London on November 22. The latter date is billed as a “UK headline exclusive”.Tickets go on general sale at 10am BST this Friday (August 5) – you’ll be able to purchase yours from here.

K-pop group DKB are set to tour the Americas from next month as part of their upcoming ‘Meet & Live’ Grand America tour.On July 27, K-pop production company Studio PAV shared a poster revealing the dates of DKB’s upcoming ‘Meet & Live’ Grand America tour.

Addie Morfoot ContributorFour documentary filmmakers were invited to participate in the Sundance Institute’s newly created Indigenous non-fiction intensive program that concludes July 29.The three-day program was created to identify Indigenous artists creating formally bold and personal work and to uplift them with a small grant and mentorship on a current edit of their short-form documentary films.The four filmmakers selected to partake in the new initiative are: Sarah Liese (“Coming In”), Sean Connelly (“A Justice Advancing Architecture Tour”), Olivia Camfield and Woodrow Hunt (“If You Look Under There You’ll Find It”). The advisors for the inaugural program include Emmy award-winning filmmaker Colleen Thurston (“Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People”), filmmaker-editor Maya Daisy Hawke (“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”), and filmmaker Darol Olu Kae (“I Ran From It and Was Still in It”).

What does one naturally associate with that most enduring and traditional of genres, the stalwart of American cinema that is the Western? For many, it is the violent exuberance of the European visionaries behind the so-called ‘Spaghetti’ Western, which survived to this day in the films of Quentin Tarantino. For the puritans of this world, the measured craft and sometimes questionable social propaganda of the likes of John Ford comes to mind.