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Taiwan has selected Lou Yi-An’s Goddamned Asura as the nation’s pick for the 2023 International Feature Film Oscar. The feature was released six months ago and, having picked up a Golden Horse and three Taipei Film Awards, could be in with a shot. White Lies creator Lou’s third film is described as a “multi-layered…

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-nominated Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom producer Den Tolmor is creating a feature based on Wali, the Canadian ‘lone wolf’ sniper who spent the first two months of the Ukrainian war fighting the Russians. Provisionally titled The Good Fight, Tolmor, who has spent much time filming…

Canneseries 2022 has unveiled its Long Form Competition finalists, with Academy Award winners Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Punishment and Jean-Xavier De Lestrade’s The Inside Game, Seeds of Wrath featuring alongside the likes of Zentropa’s The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen.  Germany is the only nation to have more than one…

EXCLUSIVE: Boutique streamer Topic has deepened ties with the African creative community by acquiring North American streaming rights to former Academy Award submissions from South Africa and Senegal, along with movies from Kenya and Ghana. Call Me Thief (South Africa) and Nafi’s Father (Senegal) will drop on the…

Academy Award-winning The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper has been blocked by the UK government from re-appointment to the Channel 4 board, along with Althea Efunshile, the board’s only person from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background. According to the Financial Times, culture secretary Nadine Dorries has…

Anthony Powell, a three-time Oscar winner whose costume designs helped bring Indiana Jones to rugged life and Broadway’s Norma Desmond to extravagant excess, died Sunday. He was 85. The Costume Designers Guild 892 confirmed the news on Monday night, on their official Facebook page. “Legendary English costume designer…