Thai Pitch at Cannes Unveils Three Projects for 11th Edition, Led by Ekachai Uekrongtham’s WWII Drama (EXCLUSIVE)

The international premiere of documentary “Spring Wind – The Awakening,” charting the political journey of Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar that culminated with his historic victory on Sunday in the country’s general elections, will open Italy’s Riviera International Film Festival on May 5. “Spring Wind – The Awakening,” which is directed by  Tamás Yvan Topolánszky, […]

Amol Rajan will deliver the Edinburgh TV Festival Alternative MacTaggart lecture. Rajan is about to exit the BBC to set up a digital talent company and will talk about “the role of journalism in a post-truth world, and why now is the time to ‘jump into the great digital Narnia of the creator economy’.” One […]

What is Australian independent cinema making of the wider world right now? Five answers are set to emerge at the Cannes Film Festival next month, where the Adelaide Film Festival Goes to Cannes program will present works in progress to international buyers and programmers. The selection is notable for its geographic reach. Dan Jackson’s documentary […]

EXCLUSIVE: Carlette Norwood was sat next to her colleague in a car when she discovered he was a convicted sex offender. Norwood runs an award-winning independent theater in Birmingham, UK, and had hired the man she then knew as Ryan Jay as a technical director one year prior, in 2024. Everything had checked out. Jay […]