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Spanish director Eva Libertad’s debut solo feature Deaf (Sorda), about a deaf woman expecting a child with her hearing partner, has won the 2026  European Parliament’s LUX Audience Award. The award continues a prizewinning run for the film which world premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in 2025, where it was feted with the audience award and […]

Directors from some of the U.K.’s top shows have called on the streaming platforms to agree a deal on royalties. Among those who have signed the letter are directors Saul Metzstein, James Hawes and Jeremy Lovering from Apple TV’s “Slow Horses,” “Black Mirror” helmers Sam Miller, John Crowley and Colm McCarthy, “The Crown’s” Sam Donovan, […]

EXCLUSIVE: British directors including Asif Kapadia, Andrew Haigh and Otto Bathurst have signed an open letter venting frustration at the streamers for failing to engage over residuals. The just-published letter organized by Directors UK comes more than 18 months after the trade body threatened to withhold its members copyright from the streamers if they didn’t […]

U.K. microdrama platform TattleTV – billed as the country’s first dedicated app of its kind – has adapted Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 feature “The Kid” for vertical mobile viewing, making the silent-era film available exclusively to U.S. audiences. The technology works by generating new image data to fill a vertical frame rather than sacrificing the original […]