Truth Seekers Honoree Stanley Nelson on the Need to Expand Opportunities for All Documentary Filmmakers

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorZendaya, Marlee Matlin and Jean Smart have been named Women in Film 2021 Crystal Award honorees. Formerly, the Crystal + Lucy Awards, the annual benefit supports WIF’s educational and philanthropic programs and its advocacy for gender parity for women throughout the industry.Also honored will be “Coda” writer Sian Heder, “Hacks” actress Hannah Einbinder and producer Ashley Levinson.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterStanley Nelson has been set to direct a feature-length documentary on the life of Charlie Sifford, the first Black golfer to play on the PGA Tour.Sifford, who has been called the Jackie Robinson of golf, was instrumental in getting the biggest professional golf tournament in the U.S.

The New Yorker Festival will once again be a largely virtual affair this year, though a number of in-person events will also be held outdoors, at Brooklyn’s Skyline Drive-In.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry'sOprah Winfrey interview lost out at the Emmy Awards on Sunday 12 September.The Duke and Duchess' two-hour sit down with Oprah, 67, hit headlines all over the world as they made explosive revelations about their experience in the Royal Family, including accusations that a member of the family raised concerns about the colour of their first child's skin.

Facing big-name competition, Stanley Tucci’s Searching For Italy CNN series won the Emmy for Hosted Nonfiction Series Or Special, a category another CNN travel and food series, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, dominated for most of the last decade.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticTim Blake Nelson is a highly skilled and versatile actor (not to mention a terrific director), but for years now there has been one character he owns: the yokel, the snaggletoothed redneck runt, the leering hillbilly bumpkin who never met a big vocabulary word he didn’t like to chew on like tobacco.

KISS‘ Paul Stanley has been spotted in public without a mask days after testing positive for COVID-19.The guitarist was seen walking inside of a West Hollywood Hotel last Tuesday (August 31) minus a face covering – you can see photos courtesy of The Daily Mail here.Aside from the fact that California has imposed a mask mandate, Los Angeles Department of Public Health has said that COVID-positive individuals should self-isolate for a minimum of 10 days.The news comes just five days after Stanley

Opening up. Stanley Tucci revealed he was diagnosed with a tumor on his tongue, nearly ten years after his late wife, Kate Spath-Tucci, died after a battle with breast cancer.

Stanley Tucci, whose acting credits include "The Hunger Games" and "Supernova," has spoken out about his cancer diagnosis and treatments in a new interview.

Vera: “It was too big to operate, so they had to do high-dose radiation and chemo. I’d vowed I’d never do anything like that, because my first wife died of cancer, and to watch her go through those treatments for years was horrible.“The kids were great, but it was hard for them,” he added.

Stanley Tucci, whose acting credits include The Hunger Games and Supernova, has spoken out about his cancer diagnosis and treatments in a new interview.

Selome Hailu editorIn a new interview, Stanley Tucci shared that he was diagnosed with cancer and underwent successful treatment three years ago.The actor told Vera that doctors discovered a large tumor at the base of his tongue. “It was too big to operate, so they had to do high-dose radiation and chemo.

Stanley Tucci is opening up about his battle with cancer.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMatt Dillon (“The House That Jack Built”) and Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Antichrist,” “Nymphomaniac”) are attached to star in Fred Garson’s “An Ocean Apart,” a period drama about the romantic affair between French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and American writer Nelson Algren.The film is being developed by French producer Olivier Delbosc at Curiosa Films, which is presenting Xavier Giannoli’s Venice competition player “Lost Illusions” and Yvan Attal’s “Les

Telluride Film Festival programmers refer to its annual feature program, is back this year with a wide array of documentary award season contenders.Muhammad Ali, Arthur Ashe, Jacques Cousteau, Anthony Fauci, Francisco Fellove and the Velvet Underground are the subjects of various docus in this year’s lineup. The nonfiction lineup also includes films about cows, rivers, caves, and family dynamics.The secretive Telluride team unveiled the 2021 program just 24 hours before the festival begins.

EXCLUSIVE: New Line’s feature adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 bestseller Salem’s Lot is expanding its cast with The Assistant actress Makenzie Leigh, Primetime Emmy nominee Bill Camp and Spencer Treat Clark who’ll star opposite of previously announced Lewis Pullman.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe upcoming Venice Film Festival is set to become a focal point for discussion on the crisis underway in Afghanistan and how it is impacting filmmakers and Afghan artists in general as the Taliban take power.As previously reported by Variety, Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi, who is the first woman president of the country’s national film entity Afghan Film –– and made a recent appeal as she escaped from Kabul about the return of Taliban rule and the

Variety‘s inaugural Truth Seekers Summit, in partnership with Rolling Stone and presented by Showtime Documentary Films.The summit explored the art of documentary and investigative storytelling.