EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has acquired streaming rights to the family film Brie‘s Bake Off Challenge, from writer-director Emily Aguilar, for release today.
SXSW Film Review: Linda Goldstein Knowlton’s Documentary ‘Split At The Root’
14.03.2022 - 01:03 / deadline.com
American mothers fight for immigrants’ rights in Split at the Root, Linda Goldstein Knowlton’s powerful SXSX doc. Executive produced by Rosario Dawson and Lana Parrilla, it’s an intimate and inspiring portrait of activism.
Under the Trump administration, immigration policies resulted in children being separated from their parents. One mother was Yeni González, whose story was aired on the radio. In order to be reunited with her kids, she needed someone to pay her bond, and drive her from Arizona to New York. New Yorker Julie Schwietert Collazo was listening, and she did just that. She connected with a network of women all over the States, who were prepared to coordinate a caravan of cars to take Yeni to her children. With the support of Julie’s husband Francisco, Immigrant Families Together (IFT) was born, and this documentary follows their progress.
Without being able to film in courtrooms or detention centers, Knowlton leans heavily on talking heads and actual footage of the women and families involved. Their personalities are as compelling as their stories. Nearly all the IFT crew are mothers who work full time: compassionate people who see that something needs doing, and get stuck in. “Only women would do this work for free,” one claims. Co-founder Julie Schwietert Collazo is a powerhouse and a terrific talker, as ready to talk about her position of white privilege as she is about the experiences she’s seen in court, where judges may have little understanding of life in Guatemala, El Salvador or Honduras.
“It’s so heartbreaking that the state attorney is sitting there googling in the middle of proceedings to try to discredit her,” she says of one of the asylum cases. “And so – what, the first thing that pops up,
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29.03.2022 / 19:23
Gravitas Ventures Acquires Musical Crime Drama ‘The Score’ Starring Will Poulter, Johnny Flynn, Naomi Ackie & Lydia Wilson
EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. rights to the musical crime drama The Score, starring Will Poulter (Dopesick), Johnny Flynn (The Outfit), Naomi Ackie (Master of None) and Lydia Wilson (Flack). The Anthem Sports & Entertainment Company plans to release the feature directorial debut of writer-director Malachi Smyth exclusively in theaters on June 3rd, with a release on VOD to follow on June 10th.
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28.03.2022 / 10:47
‘The Full Monty’: Disney+ Revives 1997 BAFTA-Winning Film As Limited TV Series; Original Cast Including Robert Carlyle & Tom Wilkinson To Return
Beloved BAFTA-winning British underdog movie The Full Monty and its Robert Carlyle-led cast is returning for a Disney+ limited TV series, with production kicking of in Sheffield and Manchester today.
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25.03.2022 / 18:39
Yard Act make thrilling US TV debut as they bring ‘The Overload’ to ‘Fallon’
Yard Act made their US TV debut last night (March 24) with an electrifying performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – watch it below.The Leeds band played the title track from their acclaimed debut record ‘The Overload’, which hit Number Two in the UK albums chart upon its release in January.Appearing live in Fallon’s studio in New York City, Yard Act delivered an energetic take on the song as their circular black-and-white logo spun behind them. Later, a series of strobe lights flashed while guitarist Sam Shjipstone shredded towards a thrilling finale.You can watch the band’s appearance on Fallon here:Taking to Twitter after recording their first Fallon performance, Yard Act wrote: “What a rush to be a part of that. Didn’t dare look up to my left to see what [Fallon’s house band] @theroots were making of all our nonsense.
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24.03.2022 / 02:59
Shanna Moakler Reveals She Is ‘Not Pregnant’ After Receiving False Positive Test Amid Matthew Rondeau Split
Shanna Moakler is not expecting her fourth child amid drama with on-off boyfriend Matthew Rondeau, Us Weekly can confirm.
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14.03.2022 / 08:27
SXSW Film Review: Richard Linklater’s ‘Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood’
Richard Linklater’s periodic forays into animation (Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly) have been distinctively imaginative, and that goes double for Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood. A nostalgic but not in the least sentimental look at Texas life when the American space program was at full thrust, this highly personal but entirely accessible account of growing up in a culture both historically momentous and banal has something to offer all audiences in terms of its vivid portrait of a very specific place and time. But most receptive of all will be viewers in their 60s and beyond who have personal memories of the July 20, 1969 moon landing and a of milieu both memorable and banal.
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14.03.2022 / 05:47
SXSW Film Review: Gracie Otto’s ‘Seriously Red’
“We need more Dollys in the world,” is the message of this raucous but hugely enjoyable comedy, which, at the same time, reminds us that there is—and can only be—one Dolly Parton. The 76-year-old country legend is having quite a moment at SXSW this year, arriving at the festival with a concert to promote her new album (and novel) Run, Rose, Run and her online NFT project Dollyverse, while riding a wave of public goodwill after her philanthropic support of the Covid vaccine with a $1 million donation.