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SRFTI has been on the boil since September 27, when a clash broke out between a section of students and members of a right-wing organisation who were holding an event inside the institute’s auditorium

The project will mark the actress' first time starring in a film for the studio.

Finnish director Renny Harlin has set up Harlin House, a production company that will mentor emerging European directors and help them turn their projects into genre features with commercial reach. Harlin unveiled the venture and its fellowship program on Nov. 13 at Helsinki’s Night Visions International Film Festival. Filmmakers chosen for the Harlin House

Films by Chinese directors scooped up the best actress and Special Jury prizes at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival.

Japanese filmmaker Shiori Ito spoke out about her sexual assault, while Indonesian human rights activist Kamala Chandrakirana documented assaults that authorities had denied. The Singapore Writers Festival 2026 headliners discuss the power of storytelling in exposing injustice.

EXCLUSIVE: Range has signed Dexter Fletcher, the BAFTA-nominated English film director and actor, for representation. These days, Fletcher is best known for his work behind the camera. This has included being called in to complete Bohemian Rhapsody, the Oscar winner starring Rami Malek as Queen’s Freddie Mercury, as well as directing such films as Rocketman,

Over a decade, co-directors Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes documented a young Syrian girl named Israa and her family's changing dynamics as refugees in Germany.

Amid grooming accusations, David Walliams has been scrubbed from the upcoming movie, Fing!, which was filmed in Queensland and based on his 2019 children's book.

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List has named the six filmmakers for its 2026 Projects Lab. They are Mike Ambs (Falling Forward), Sierra Falconer (Cry For Me, Baby), Georgia Fu (Approximate Joy), Seth Kelman (Vessels), Megan Spatz (North) and Brandon Tyson (Ta Ta Dear). Now in its third year, the program provides creative mentorship and professional support […]

EXCLUSIVE: A natural history filmmaker and Fremantle label Wildstar have partnered on a venture in which travellers will head out on excursions while having their journey documented by a crew. Dan O’Neill and luxury travel specialist Steppes Travel have launched Wildstar Expeditions with Fremantle’s Wildstar Films, which makes the likes of the Ryan Reynolds-

Following the news that he and Peter Safran would no longer be co-running DC Studios in the wake of the Skydance-Warner Bros. merger, James Gunn has spoken out about his time at the studio. In the lengthy statement, which Gunn dropped on his social media platforms, he shares how proud he is of his four […]

Adobe is stepping up its efforts to fuel creative work from independent voices in the entertainment biz — including directly giving money to creators. In 2024, the digital creative tools and services giant launched the Adobe Film & TV Fund, aimed at expanding opportunities for emerging and mid-career filmmakers to get their projects made. Now […]

United Talent Agency has signed filmmaker Alyce Tzue for representation in all areas, Variety can report exclusively. Tzue will soon make her feature directorial debut with Netflix’s animated family comedy “Steps,” a retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale from the perspective of the evil stepsisters. Cast members for the film, which hits Netflix Nov. 20, […]

Adam and Christian Bonke recall how they and their cinematographer followed Maximilian Schnell in a "not so big" vehicle with "a lot of equipment" to shoot material for the film now screening at Tallinn.

Filmmakers and journalists say threats on Lagos streets is making it harder to tell the city’s stories.

He won the 2018 Academy Award for best international film for his groundbreaking drama A Fantastic Woman, about a transgender woman.

Photographer, filmmaker and producer, Emily Nkanga, talks about her career path, her love for football, her first football-related job with Thierry Henry, her Arsenal loyalty, and more in this… Read More: https://punchng.com/why-henry-iwobi-are-my-favourite-players-filmmaker-nkanga/

Some genre movies are stripped-back exercises: lean, mean and to the point. Some films, like “Kung Fu Deadly,” take the opposite approach, dipping into multiple genres in a sumptuous visual feast. “Deadly” follows Danny and Frank (Steven He and Michael Tient), two hapless exterminators in Dublin, as they are called upon to combat a supernatural […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker Carla Gutiérrez has signed on to executive produce the award-winning short documentary Water Cooler, joining a distinguished group of talents. Along with Gutiérrez (director of Frida and editor of RBG), the ICE-themed film is executive produced by Oscar nominees Sam Pollard, Geeta Gandbhir, and Alisa Payne through their

He also wrote and directed ‘Gloria’ and its English-language remake, ‘Gloria Bell,’ starring Julianne Moore.

Sebastián Lelio, the Oscar-winning Chilean writer-director behind such pics as A Fantastic Woman, The Wonder, and The Wave, died Friday in Santiago. He was 52. His family confirmed the news in a social media post from Lelio’s partner Amalia Kassai, and local media in Chile reported that he was found dead at his home. Kassai’s […]

Ben Leonberg, in collaboration with Republic Pictures, is set to direct and co-write a film adaptation of “Look Out,” a horror novella from Artists Writers and Artisans and Vertigo Entertainment, Variety can reveal exclusively. Leonberg will co-write the script with Alex Cannon, who previously worked on Leonberg’s breakout hit “Good Boy.” Roy Lee and Andrew

Featuring Bollywood stars Ranbir Kapoor and Yash, the multi-million epic brings together Indian storytelling and Hollywood expertise in a bid to captivate audiences worldwide.

For more than 15 years, Faisal Hashmi has been making films in the UAE with whatever resources he can get his hands on. Sometimes that means a camera, a few friends willing to act and a house that could double as a film set. Now, the Dubai filmmaker wants to turn that resourcefulness into a business model that he believes could help change the regional film

EXCLUSIVE: Another day, another emerging genre filmmaker: Jordan Downey, co-writer and director of the recent Shudder buzz title The Cycle, has inked with Verve for exclusive representation in all areas. The talk of the town recently, The Cycle stars Daredevil’s Deborah Ann Woll as a forensic anthropologist pulled into a chilling investigation when her long-

EXCLUSIVE: Noel Braham, founder of the Oscar Micheaux Film and Media Institute, has set plans to launch The Micheaux Roadshow 2027, a touring theatrical program for independent features and short films. The Roadshow will take indie filmmakers across the country for screenings of their work. The Roadshow will begin in Los Angeles in April 2027 […]

'The Trial of Alec Baldwin' director Rory Kennedy and writer Mark Bailey opened up about assessing their subject's ability to be a reliable narrator in his own story and his reaction to the film during a panel at SCAD.

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich announced today the acquisition of North American distribution rights to Brian the feature directorial debut of Will Ropp (The Fallout, The Way Back) from a Black List Featured Project script by Mike Scollins (Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers) starring Ben Wang (The Hunger Games: Sun Rise on the Reaping), Randall […]

Imran Perretta (Ish) and Ella Bruccoleri (The Other Bennet Sister) are among 21 creatives who have been selected for this year’s cohort of BAFTA Breakthrough talents. BAFTA Breakthrough is awarded to individuals in what the awards body describes as the “midst of or on the cusp of their breakthrough moment as creatives.” The award functions […]

The French War Crimes Unit has opened a judicial investigation into the Israeli army’s bombing of a residential building in Beirut in November 2024 in which seven civilians were killed, including the parents of Franco-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri. The decision comes six months after Cherri, who is known in the film world for his Cannes […]

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen McKinley Henderson, the veteran character actor seen in such recent films as Civil War and Beau Is Afraid, has signed on to lead Anglers, an indie crime drama marking the feature debut of writer-director Zoe Simone In the film, shooting in Simone’s hometown of Houston, TX in December, Henderson plays a larger-than-life man […]

Palestinian-Jordanian filmmaker Darin J. Sallam has no regrets about making “Farha,” her debut feature about a Palestinian girl coming of age during the Nakba, the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians surrounding the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The film sparked controversy that Sallam was warned could derail her career before it [

A filmmaker and investigative journalist from far-west NSW is taking modern subversive Australian Aboriginal stories to Paris.

Why do humans tend to vent abuse at their AI bots – and should they think about apologizing? That question is central to “Searching for SmarterChild,” the project that won the New Visions Award for the most promising U.S. project at the Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival this week. Zan Gillies is co-directing the U.S.-Canadian film […]

Filmmaker Michael Mann was injured at a gun range in Los Angeles, his representative said.

On Saturday, at a gun range, a weapon accidentally discharged while holstered resulting in a superficial injury to film director Michael Mann. He was treated and is being released. Mann is scheduled to direct Heat 2 in January. Deadline spoke exclusively to a source close to the filmmaker, and this will not impact start of […]

Sanjay Gupta, the Indian director best known for the crime drama films Kaante and Shootout at Lokhandwala, died Friday, October 30, after a fall at his home in Mumbai. He was 57 (though some sources put his age at 59). His death was confirmed by friend and fellow director Milap Zaveri to the Press Trust […]

Two Emirati filmmakers are bringing distinctly local stories to the 13th edition of the Sharjah Intl. Film Festival for Children and Youth, with Khalid Al Mahmood’s musical “The Mangrove House” and Abdulrahman Al Madani’s family drama “Oug,” the only Emirati films in competition. Both filmmakers have longstanding ties to SIFF. “The Mangrove House,” which wor

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and Iranian-born Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat pushed back on the idea of a standalone Oscar category for exiled filmmakers, speaking at the Tokyo International Film Festival as Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund gave its first five short films their Japan premiere. The question followed the Academy’s recent rule c

Shot entirely in Taiwan, "Arrested Memory" is the latest in a string of international productions helmed by the idiosyncratic filmmaker.

EXCLUSIVE: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles has announced an inaugural partnership with the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina. Under the collaboration, NFMLA will bring a selection of eight short films by its alumni to the festival in November, and participate in an industry panel exploring the role that film festivals, markets and creative org

Comedian Cat Cohen will host the Nov. 19 ceremony, which celebrates groundbreaking promotional work in the entertainment industry.

Frida screenwriter and Selena writer/director Gregory Nava is mourning the loss of his friend Dolores Huerta, the civil rights icon who died today at age 96. Nava and his wife Barbara Martinez Jitner were by Huerta’s side in her final moments. “We were blessed to be by Dolores’s side last night in Bakersfield, to say […]

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi is in Iran veroordeeld tot vijf jaar en een maand cel. Dat meldt zijn advocaat aan Iraanse media. Het is onduidelijk waarvan hij precies wordt beschuldigd. Of de Iraanse regisseur in Iran of in het buitenland verblijft is niet duidelijk. Behalve de celstraf worden ook alle bezittingen van Panahi in beslag genomen. Hij krijgt een reisve

Filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and composer John Carpenter will receive the American Cinema Editors (ACE) Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year award at the 77th annual ACE Eddie Awards. Editors Bonnie Koehler and Christopher Nelson will also receive ACE Career Achievement awards during the ceremony, which recognizes the best film editing achievements of the

Bonnie Koehler and Christopher Nelson will receive ACE Career Achievement Awards.

Gaza film festival highlights women's resilience through stories of war, loss and survival.

Cube wrote the script and will star in 'Last Friday,' the first installment of New Line's buddy comedy series since 2002.

A Toronto man has been sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole for 16 years for killing his neighbour in Liberty Village three years ago, his lawyer confirmed to CityNews. Khoa Tran, 36, was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Reeyaz Habib, 56, in June of this year and […]

The Sharjah Intl. Film Festival for Children and Youth is adding a federal partner to its push to build a more substantial and sustainable pipeline for emerging filmmakers. The organization behind the festival signed an agreement with the UAE’s recently established National Media Authority covering areas from film screening procedures to training and technic

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles has announced four new board members and forged a strategic partnership in the United Arab Emirates with the Sharjah Intl. Film Festival for Children and Youth. Joining the board of directors of the non-profit arts and culture organization that is focused on championing independent filmmakers and content creators are: Beverly Hills-

Lukas Marxt's observational doc '>1.5°C: Pyropolitics and the New World' premieres at DOK Leipzig and the Viennale before hitting IDFA. And like his other work, it took him into "an apocalyptic surrounding."

Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival wrapped its ninth edition Friday after nine days of screenings, industry activity and a closing night that spread its top prizes across the Middle East and beyond. Mohammed Hammad’s “Safe Exit,” a psychological drama about a young Coptic security guard in Cairo confronting trauma rooted in religious violence, won the […]

More than 320 Arab film projects applied to CineGouna Funding this year, including more than 100 from Egypt, as the industry arm of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival drew submissions from across the region. At the festival’s ninth edition, running through Oct. 23 on the Red Sea, CineGouna is adding new initiatives as it looks […]

British filmmaker Joanna Hogg, who has been serving as president of the Feature Narrative Competition jury at the ninth edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival this week, tells Variety she prefers to know as little as possible about a film before watching it, “not even a synopsis of the story.” “I prefer to go […]

The Japanese writer and filmmaker Ryu Murakami has died. He was 74. Murakami’s publisher, Gentosha, announced his death today in a lengthy statement on their website. “Author Ryu Murakami passed away at his home on October 17, 2026, at the age of 74. We hereby express our deepest condolences and share this news,” the statement […]

EXCLUSIVE: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles has announced the lineup for its 2026 DocuSlate Documentary Film Festival, NFMLA’s annual cinematic showcase of “stories spanning continents, generations, and communities.” The event running November 12-15 opens with the North American premiere of Sergio & Mirta, A Love Story in 8 mm, directed by Fabrizio Laurenti and co-

Neon has joined with The Guardian, MK2, James Wilson and Jonathan Glazer to bring “NAZA” to wider audiences and expand the footprint of the Venice prize-winning documentary. In the U.S., “NAZA” was originally released independently on Sept. 30 in 85 theaters across 30 cities, and has grossed more than $700,000. Overseas, the doc has theatrical […]

The sleuths spent two years digging into archives and building 3D models of 19th-century Paris. The location is now immortalized by a bronze plaque celebrating the historic site and the "poetic" early photograph

“Learning how to make a film is one thing, but getting that film produced and seen by an audience is a completely different challenge,” Sharjah Intl. Film Festival for Children and Youth director Sheikha Jawaher bint Abdullah Al Qasimi tells Variety. “This is where many talented young filmmakers struggle, particularly when they don’t have access […]