#Red Sea Film Fest Books ‘Black Dog,’ ‘Santosh,’ ‘Familiar Touch’ for Festival Favorites Program

#Red Sea Film Fest Books ‘Black Dog,’ ‘Santosh,’ ‘Familiar Touch’ for Festival Favorites Program

The Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has picked 12 movies for its Festival Favorites selection of standouts from the fest circuit, including U.K. Oscar submission Santosh, an Indian police procedural about two women who form an unlikely alliance directed by Sandhya Suri, and Chinese auteur Guan Hu’s Black Dog, which won the Un…

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#‘Grand Theft Hamlet,’ ‘Witches’ Feature on Longlist for BIFAs Raindance Maverick Award

#‘Grand Theft Hamlet,’ ‘Witches’ Feature on Longlist for BIFAs Raindance Maverick Award

Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, about out-of-work theater actors who try to stage a production of Hamlet within the video game Grand Theft Auto during the COVID lockdown, and Witches, Elizabeth Sankey’s doc that posits a connection between historical witchery and post-partum psychological suffering, are among 13 feature films on the longlist for this year’s Raindance Maverick…

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#Bhansali Productions CEO Prerna Singh on Bringing Big Bollywood to the Small Screen with Netflix’s ‘Heeramandi’

#Bhansali Productions CEO Prerna Singh on Bringing Big Bollywood to the Small Screen with Netflix’s ‘Heeramandi’

After executive stints at such Indian media giants as Eros International, Abundantia Entertainment and Reliance Entertainment, Singh joined Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bhansali Productions in 2019, heading up operations at the Bollywood powerhouse. Singh has expanded the company’s business to the small screen with the epic series Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, a Netflix original about the…

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#Timo Tjahjanto Talks Netflix’s The Shadow Strays

#Timo Tjahjanto Talks Netflix’s The Shadow Strays

If there were an AI prompt behind Indonesian action maestro Timo Tjahjanto’s latest Netflix movie The Shadow Strays, it would probably go something like this: “Give me John Wick but make it Indonesian women with uzis and samurai swords — and more brutal.”  Not that anything feels remotely artificial about the viscerally kinetic setpieces that…

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#‘The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire’ Explores a Trailblazer of Afro-Caribbean Surrealism While Subverting the Classic Form of Biopics

#‘The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire’ Explores a Trailblazer of Afro-Caribbean Surrealism While Subverting the Classic Form of Biopics

New York artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich makes films that, as she describes it, are “concerned with the inner worlds of Black women.” Her documentary short A Gentleman’s War explored a Caribbean team playing in a summer cricket league in Brooklyn and “the utopian world this predominantly immigrant community has constructed on their weekends,” as her website…

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