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A series of high-profile names have committed to speaking at CARLA 2020, a digital conference focusing on creating lasting structural change in the film and TV industries post-COVID-19. Keynote speakers will include Belle filmmaker Amma Asante, new Sundance director Tabitha Jackson, Swedish Film Institute CEO Anna…

One could say that Amma Asante’s latest, Where Hands Touch is part of a trilogy of films. Before the Holocaust drama starring Amandla Stenberg, she directed David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike in A United Kingdom and before that, she helmed Belle starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw. All three films are set in different time periods…

Amma Asante made it four for four with her latest release, having four consecutive releases in the official TIFF lineup. Continuing the director's interest in historical matters, Where Hands Touch tells the story of Leyna, a mixed-race girl coming of age during the Second World War. After the relatively gentle period…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Where Hands Touch, the new film written and directed by Amma Asante that will have its world premiere at next month’s Toronto Film Festival. As part of the deal, the pic, which stars Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Abbie Cornish and Christopher…

EXCLUSIVE: Amma Asante has been set to direct the upcoming film adaptation of David E. Hoffman's drama thriller The Billion Dollar Spy for Walden Media and Weed Road Pictures. Asante is a British writer-director whose A United Kingdom (starring David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike) won critical kudos both here and abroad. The…

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has made a multi-territory deal for Amma Asante's World War II drama Where Hands Touch starring Amandla Stenberg, George Mackay and Abbie Cornish. Protagonist Pictures is handling sales for the pic here in Cannes. SPWA has picked up most of international excluding select European…

EXCLUSIVE: Captain Fantastic‘s George MacKay has been tapped to star alongside Amandla Stenberg in Where Hands Touch, a coming-of-age love story set in World War II Berlin that will be the next movie from Amma Asante. Asante’s A United Kingdom just had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. David Oyelowo and…

Amma Asante's A United Kingdom took its premiere bow at Toronto on Friday night, starring David Oyelowo as Bechuanaland prince Seretse Khama, exiled from his homeland and prevented from taking his place as king, all for the love of his wife: a white British woman, Ruth Williams, played by Rosamund Pike. Greeted warmly…

The BFI London Film Festival is turning the spotlight on diversity for its 60th edition next month and has tapped British actor and producer David Oyelowo to lead the fest's headline industry event, the Black Star Symposium. The event, which will take place on October 6 (the day after Amma Asante's A United Kingdom…

Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom, starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike, will open the 60th BFI London Film Festival. The film tells the true story of Seretse Khama, King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1947 in the face of fierce opposition from their…

EXCLUSIVE: A passion project, Where Hands Touch is the next feature on Belle helmer Amma Asante’s dance card. I’ve learned that The Hunger Games' Amandla Stenberg is in talks to star in the period romantic drama that will begin shooting this summer. The 1940s-set story focuses on the relationship between a mixed-race…

The British Film Institute (BFI) today officially launched its diversity fund Three Ticks, with the dedicated aim to increase diversity representation in front of and behind the camera. The fund will have an initial investment pool of $1.5 million to be rolled out across development, production, distribution and…