The Future Of Film Is Female 2021 Fall Short Film Fund Recipients Revealed

2021 is coming to an end this week and the final tally of the Netflix shows cancelled this year have been solidified.

If you’re up bright and early on Christmas morning, make sure to tune in for the the Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade, which is airing on ABC at 10am on Saturday (December 25).

Apax Capital Group, a new film fund backed by the Italian government, an Italian insurer and a consortium of other investors, says it plans to spend €1.5 billion (about $1.7B) over ten years on films shot and/or completed in Europe, primarily Italy.

Wizkid has released a short film – Made In Lagos (Deluxe Edition) – you can watch it below.The film, which is directed by Kuukua Eshun and Wizkid, illustrates his most recent tracks, ‘Anoti,’ ‘Mood’ and ‘Steady’ and is named after his latest album.The colourful film serves largely as an aesthetic exploration of the album’s songs, rather than a film with a cohesive plot, with each song divided up into seperate sections.You can watch it here:Meanwhile, Wizkid recently shared his collaboration ith

Who is in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special?For the first time, the six celebrities in the Christmas Special will never have taken part in Strictly before. This will be their first tome taking on the ballroom, so who is going to be keeping us entertained?Here is the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special line-up:Pop sensation Anne-Marie is paired with professional dance partner Graziano Di Prima.

Christmas days away, so if it's time to pop on your favourite Christmas movies, this week couldn't be a better time.

EXCLUSIVE: The Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and Janet Yang Productions today announced that they’re partnering for a new Short Film Challenge, which will provide production grants of $15,000 to four AAPI women or non-binary filmmakers.

Kano has shared a new short film celebrating his Jamaican heritage – watch A Blessed Place below.The 11-minute film was directed by Aneil Karia and shot in Kingston and Browns Town. It arrives to mark the release of Duppy White, a new white rum from Kano in collaboration with Duppy Share Caribbean Rums.“I think there’s a few different rhythms to a place like Jamaica,” Kano says during the film, adding: “I feel like this today, feel like that tomorrow.

Get in the holiday spirit with a new short film from director Luca Guadagnino.

The 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards – also known as 2021 MAMA – are here!

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe 2022 Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its short film program, curated from an all-time high of 10,374 submissions.The films — encompassing categories like domestic and international live action as well as animation — will screen throughout the hybrid festival in-person, at satellite venues, and online.“Short films are such a vital part of the independent storytelling culture that Sundance Institute has consistently put its full support behind.

The Sundance Institute today unveiled the Short Film program for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the “From the Collection” program—a lineup of 40 shorts from festivals past that will be available for streaming online, in celebration of the nonprofit’s 40th anniversary.

2021 Power Women Summit, WrapWomen and Starz, a Lionsgate company, announced the winner of this year’s ‘Telling Our Stories’ short film competition, an initiative that highlights films by women and gender non-conforming filmmakers of color and showcase themes of womanhood, community and representation.

The African American Film Critics Association said Wednesday that it has selected Netflix’s Western The Harder They Fall as its film of the year. It leads a Top 10 list that also includes King Richard, Respect, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Passing, Belfast, Who We Are, House of Gucci, The Power of the Dog and West Side Story.

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, TriStar Pictures has acquired the rights to the supernatural romantic comedy You’re Dead Helene, which is based on Michiel Blanchart’s award-winning short film, which he wrote and directed. Blanchart will direct the feature film, which is being produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert at Ghost House and Michaël Goldberg and Boris Van Gils at Playbox Pictures. Caellum Allan will oversee the project for TriStar Pictures. Romel Adam will oversee for Ghost House.

Kyle Eustice City Girls’ hustle is strong. The hip-hop duo — composed of JT and Yung Miami — have been friends since middle school and were forced to grow up fast due to their circumstances.

Ben Croll When the Torino Short Film Market kicked off its inaugural edition in November 2016, the young event already set a clear intention: To catapult new talents into the wider film industry.“The short film world is kind of detached from the feature and docs markets,” TSFM artistic director Enrico Vannucci tells Variety. “Our job is to find these new talents that critics or audiences will later discover.

Academy Awards. It's only the second time in the last four decades that the critics' top honor went to a non English-language film.

K.J. Yossman “Doctor Who” star Peter Capaldi and Raindance founder Elliot Grove have been honored at the first ever British Short Film Awards.Capaldi was given the Icon Award while Grove was handed the Impact AwardThe British Short Film Awards, in partnership with the HearArt Project, were hosted by presenter Alex Zane on Friday evening.

Liza Foreman Opening this year’s Horizons of Arab Cinema section at the Cairo Film Festival, the omnibus film “Becoming” shows just how far the Saudi filmmaking community has come in supporting female filmmakers.Playing in an Out-of-Competition slot, directors Sara Mesfer, Fatima Al Banawi, Jawaher Alamri, Hind Al Fahhad and Noor Alameer collaborated to create this 70-minute fiction film, which seeks to amplify female filmmaking visions from the region.The filmmakers looked to “explore the