Travel company TUI has issued a statement on new face mask rules before everyone begins booking their flights for the Easter holidays.
16.03.2022 - 16:03 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Films from Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Uganda have been unveiled in the final selection of North American streamer Topic and Statement Films’ program to support, develop and finance projects from female African filmmakers.
The features span a range of genres including thriller, sci-fi, suspense, mystery and crime from a variety of African countries and telling a range of diasporic stories.
The selected projects are: Big Fish (Victoria Thomas), Brace Yourself (Thati Pele & Cait Pansegrouw), Eziko (Jenna Bass & Babalwa Baartman), The Legend of Madam Koi-Koi (Melissa O. Adeyemo & Chioma Onyenwe), Nexus (Mary Waireri), The Rain Queen (Nonzi Bogatsu), The Stone That Was Moved (Patience Nitumwesiga), 2065 (Carmen Sangion & Carol Kioko), Sister Nancy (Amirah Tajdin & Wafa Tajdin), and You Never See It Coming (Nelisa Ngcobo).
The program was revealed exclusively by Deadline in June as a co-partnership between First Look Media’s SVoD Topic and Areej Noor’s women-led startup Statement Films. Submissions subsequently came in from 27 African countries, of which 34 were shortlisted and 10 selected.
Noor said the final 10 “represent this generation’s most promising African auteurs and creators,” adding: “This selection of premium projects attests to our belief in the explosive talent of women writers and directors from the continent.”
Topic GM Ryan Chanatry added: “Each story is masterfully grounded in a relatable human truth, built from the personal experiences of our amazing group of filmmakers”.
Topic has set a growth path for this year and Chanatry told Deadline in December the streamer has narrowed its focus to “elevated crime and suspense.”
New and returning series on broadcast, cable and streaming
Series
Travel company TUI has issued a statement on new face mask rules before everyone begins booking their flights for the Easter holidays.
A student from Cheetham Hill will travel to ISIS-occupied cities in Iraq to film a documentary. Zain Ullah, a Law and Criminology student at Manchester Metropolitan University , is set to visit places in Iraq that were once occupied by or are still occupied by terrorist group ISIS.
The horror 11-hour ordeal Hannah Cornelius suffered at the hands of her callous killers has been detailed in a newly-released documentary.
Here are your Manchester City evening headlines for Thursday, March 24.
Staind‘s Aaron Lewis shared right wing conspiracy theories about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during an onstage rant last week (March 17).While playing a solo show, Lewis seemingly backed a baseless argument that Russian President Vladimir Putin is invading Ukraine in order to dismantle the so-called ‘Deep State’ – a clandestine government sect formed to undermine former President Donald Trump.“So, I’m not gonna go into some big get-myself-in-trouble dissertation. All I’m gonna say is this: question everything. Everything that they’re telling you right now is a lie.
Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid took to the stand in London’s high court yesterday in the ongoing song-theft legal battle over Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape Of You’, which he co-wrote. He mainly echoed comments already made by his musical collaborator earlier in the week, while also talking about the “culture” of dubious copyright claims in the US courts that followed the 2015 ‘Blurred Lines’ ruling, and insisting that the thought of plagiarising another artist’s work was “abhorrent”.Sheeran and his songwriting collaborators – including McDaid – are accused of ripping off the earlier track ‘Oh Why’ by Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue when they wrote their 2017 hit.
her opinion piece published in the newspaper of record lamenting what she claims is an increase in “self-censorship” on college campuses.“Even as a liberal who has attended abortion rights protests and written about standing up to racism, I sometimes feel afraid to fully speak my mind,” Camp says.But Emma Camp isn’t just any University of Virginia senior. Despite claiming to be “a liberal,” she’s a writer at the libertarian outlet Reason and a former intern at the right-leaning Koch-funded Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
A Florida student was indefinitely suspended for organising a statewide walkout in protest of the state’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill.”Jack Petocz, a student at Flagler Palm Coast High School (FPCHS) in Palm Coast Florida, USA, planned a March 3 rally in order to protest the Parental Rights in Education bill or “Don’t Say Gay Bill.” I organized the statewide #DSGWalkout today in response to attempts to silence and erase the LGBTQ+ community in Florida. I was indefinitely suspended from my school for organizing a peaceful rally.
Despite being one of the most acclaimed and iconic American filmmakers to ever grace the medium, Terrence Malick remains a pretty big mystery to many film fans. This, largely, has to do with the fact that Malick is reluctant to do any sort of press and doesn’t make massive Hollywood blockbusters.
Gucci Mane has compared himself to Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin and former American Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama on new track ‘Publicity Stunt’ – check it out below.On ‘Publicity Stunt’, Gucci Mane raps “Ain’t no disputin’, I kill like I’m Putin. Got a truck full of shooters, I move like I’m Trump.
Despite being one of the most acclaimed and iconic American filmmakers to ever grace the medium, Terrence Malick remains a pretty big mystery to many film fans. This, largely, has to do with the fact that Malick is reluctant to do any sort of press and doesn’t make massive Hollywood blockbusters.
Dear Faculty Members and School Representatives,I hope this email finds you well.I am reaching out in advance of the launch of the 49th annual Student Academy Awards in a few weeks to inform you of some rule changes coming to this year’s program that might affect some of your students.In the interest of making the Student Academy Awards more equitable and inclusive, the program will no longer distinguish between domestic and international students when it comes to category designations and submission processes. The program will not have separate categories for international students. All eligible submissions, regardless of location, will qualify for one of four categories: Narrative, Animation, Documentary or Alternative/Experimental.In addition, the submission requirements for the competition will apply equally across the board. For instance, schools based outside the U.S.