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National Geographic announced a 2024 premiere date for Genius: MLK/X, the latest installment in Nat Geo’s Genius franchise. Genius: MLK/X will premiere the first two episodes Feb. 1 on National Geographic and stream the next day on Disney+ and Hulu, with two new episodes debuting weekly on all platforms. The news was announced during Nat Geo’s content showcase Wednesday night in NYC.

Ellise Shafer Riz Ahmed has posted an impassioned plea on social media calling for “an end to the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza’s civilians” amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. “We are told there are two sides to what is happening in Israel and Palestine. But in my heart, I know there is only one — the side of our humanity,” the Oscar-nominated actor wrote.

The grieving partner of Frankie Jules-Hough says the family feel 'injustice' over the sentence handed to her killer. Adil Iqbal's prison sentence was increased from 12 to 15 years by three appeal judges last week.

Each from different faiths, they look to elevate the things that unite us above the forces that would divide us. And now, with the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, the work of Greater Manchester's interfaith leaders has never been more relevant.

Valerie Wu Intern The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) have announced the finalists and mentors for their prestigious 2023 Sloan Student Prizes. The Sloan Student Prizes are awarded annually to emerging filmmakers from graduate school programs who exhibit science and/or technology themes and characters in their screenplays.

A desperate mother-of-two facing eviction was denied access to Salford council's lettings register on the grounds she was working from home - even though the policy disqualifying her on that basis was not yet active. 'Ms X' has had a complaint against Salford town hall - over the way it handled her application for housing - upheld by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

Ed Meza @edmezavar Director Karan Tejpal’s feature film debut “Stolen” is a nail-biting thriller about two privileged, big-city boys who unwittingly embark on a harrowing adventure as they help an impoverished young woman find her kidnapped baby in rural India. The film, which is produced by Gaurav Dhingra’s Jungle Book Studio, is also a commentary on the alarming number of child abductions in India in recent years, and the explosion of often misguided vigilantism that accompanied the widespread adoption of instant messaging apps, particularly in rural areas.

Members of Livingston United Parish Church are calling on polluters to pay up.

Christopher Vourlias Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland has remained defiant despite a wave of vicious political attacks and online hate speech as she prepares to release her Venice Special Jury Prize-winning refugee drama “Green Border” in Poland on Sept. 22.

BreAnna Bell Salma Hayek Pinault will be honored with this year’s Giving Tree Award at the 2023 Baby2Baby Gala taking place on November 11 in Los Angeles. The Giving Tree Award is awarded annually to a public figure who has demonstrated exceptional commitment to improving the lives of children in need around the world. Past honorees include Amy Adams, Jessica Alba, Drew Barrymore, Vanessa Bryant, Jennifer Garner, Kate Hudson, Kim Kardashian, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chrissy Teigen, and Kerry Washington.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent The political backlash surrounding Agnieszka Holland’s Venice Special Jury Prize-winning refugee drama “Green Border” hasn’t kept the movie from being a hot seller. The film explores the injustice and terror perpetrated at the Polish-Belarusian border from the perspective of refugees, Polish activists and border guards.

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have faced backlash after documents showed that they asked a judge for leniency before their That ‘70s Show co-star Danny Masterson was sentenced for raping two women. Former That '70s Show star Danny was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Thursday 7 September following his conviction for two counts of forcible rape.

Danny Masterson may be going to prison, but he still has support among his friends.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis were two of more than 50 people who wrote to the judge in the Danny Masterson sexual assault trial in support of the now-convicted actor, “Good Morning America” reports. Kutcher and Kunis starred with Masterson on Fox’s sitcom “That ’70s Show,” which ran for eight seasons and 200 episodes between 1998 and 2006.

The trailer for Amazon’s Prime Video movie The Burial has arrived.

Jessica Kiang For around half of the entire last century, there was a semi-official policy enacted by the Swiss state to forcibly separate the children of “itinerant” parents from their families. The program, known as “Kinder der Landstrasse” (“Children of the Road”), was ostensibly designed for the protection of such children from the perils of vagrancy and criminality which the state imagined rife among the traveller population.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Variety is debuting an exclusive clip from Farah Nabulsi’s thriller “The Teacher,” starring Imogen Poots (“The Father”) and Saleh Bakri (“The Band’s Visit,” “Wajib”). The film will have its world premiere on Saturday at the Toronto Film Festival in the Discovery section.

An unlikely pair are taking on big business.

“This fella tried to bully me out of business,” Jeremiah O’Keefe says. “I don’t think I should be expected to stand for it.” His wife reminds him, “You’ve never sued anybody before in your whole life.”

Ellise Shafer Ava DuVernay’s latest film, “Origin,” premiered in competition at Venice Film Festival to a 5 minute and 46 second standing ovation. Based on Isabel Wilkerson’s book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” “Origin” chronicles “the remarkable life and work” of Wilkerson “as she investigates the genesis of injustice and uncovers a hidden truth that affects us all,” according to the film’s synopsis. The drama stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Niecy Nash-Betts, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash-Betts, Vera Farmiga, Audra McDonald, Nick Offerman, Blair Underwood, Connie Nielsen, Emily Yancy, Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Finn Wittock, Victoria Pedretti, Isha Blaaker and Myles Frost.

Ava DuVernay’s past experiences with the Venice Film Festival have been more exclusionary than esteemed, revealed the director during a press conference for her new film “Origin” on Wednesday.

Christopher Vourlias Three-time Academy Award nominee Agnieszka Holland has called out a hard-right Polish minister who compared her refugee drama “Green Border” to Nazi propaganda, accusing him of “hate speech” and insisting that the Eastern European nation’s right-wing ruling party is “afraid” of her film’s damning portrayal of its response to the refugee crisis. The movie is competing for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival this week. “We expected that they would be furious.

Jessica Kiang While you’re still in the vice-like grip of its multilevel narrative it may not feel like it, but a film like Agnieszka Holland’s bruisingly powerful new refugee drama ultimately comes from a place of optimism. It is optimistic to expect and nurture of a reaction of potentially motivating outrage, when you portray the brutality of which human individuals, at the behest of human institutions, are capable. It is optimistic to believe that, faced with extraordinary cruelty, a viewer’s ordinary decency will be compelled to rise and rebel.

Jessica Kiang A wild deer with a hunter’s bullet in its belly may attack a human, no matter how mild its nature normally. This is one of the droplets of woodland wisdom dispensed by the otherwise taciturn Takumi (Hitoshi Omika), the woodcutter, water-gatherer and all-round odd-job-man of Mizubiki village, the setting of “Drive My Car” director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s meditative and moving, yet ultimately unsettling new feature. Takumi’s few words all relate to such matters: the flow of a stream, the thorns on a Siberian Ginseng, the tang of wild wasabi.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor If the summer belonged to Cillian Murphy from “Oppenheimer,” then the upcoming fall season will belong to Colman Domingo in “Rustin.” The Emmy-winning actor of HBO’s “Euphoria” throws down the gauntlet with his portrayal of the gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in George C. Wolfe’s biopic, which just premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, where Barack Obama pre-recorded a message for attendees. “This past week marked the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington and that March would not have happened without Bayard Rustin,” Obama said in his message.

Samer Khouzami has his own cosmetics line, and has such celebrity clients as Kris Jenner.

Canadian filmmaker Director X is revealing how his new Global original series, “Robyn Hood”, came about.

The SNP’s Patricia Gibson has tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliament for MPs to debate the “devastating impact of continuing unfair pension treatment of 1950s-born WASPI women (Women Against State Pension Inequality). The North Ayrshire and Arran MP is also urging the UK Government to “respond promptly” to the findings from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s (PHSO) report into the way the changes to the State Pension age were communicated.

The Justice Secretary has ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances and handling of Andrew Malkinson’s case after his conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal last month.

Oliver Anthony’s political song “Rich Men North of Richmond” is winning over an audience, even as many media outlets condemn its message.

Young Lucy Benavidez Gardwood was tucked up in her bed with her siblings over 78 years ago when she was violently awoken by her family's home being violently shaken after J Robert Oppenheimer tested out his creation of the world's first atomic bomb.

Jess Search, a British documentary veteran who co-founded the Doc Society, has died aged 54 from brain cancer.

Sophia Scorziello editor Jess Search, producer and co-founder of U.K.’s Doc Society, has died. She was 54.

Andy Burnham’s mayoral charity has a new face — as the organisation has appointed its first ever chief executive.

UK State Pensions for people living overseas in retirement only increase in-line with the annual uprating - the Triple Lock guarantee - where there is a legal requirement to do so. An example of this is where there is a reciprocal agreement between the UK and the country of residence.

A French soccer commercial went viral ahead of the 2023 Women’s World Cup for pointing out gender biases in the sport.