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Director Asif Kapadia makes slick work of Akram Khan's ballet in Creature, which world premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. Based on Khan's original concept and choreography, the English National Ballet Production is produced by Uzma Hasan for Little House Productions, and brings an intense…

Neon, Double Agent and Film4 are partnering to co-finance and exec produce 2073, a new documentary from Academy Award and BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapadia (Amy). 2073 is billed as a genre-bending thriller set in a dystopian future, which will tackle some of the biggest challenges imperiling our future. The project…

The 66th BFI London Film Festival is set to host the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, the Oscar-winning director's dark take on the classic fairy tale about a wooden marionette brought to life to mend the heart of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto. The film will debut in the Royal Festival Hall at…

Leading UK documentary event Sheffield Doc/Fest has named former London and Sydney film festival director Clare Stewart as interim CEO. Stewart will steer the fest through its 2022 edition, which will run June 23-28. In addition, Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia has been named guest curator for next year, the…

Fifty years ago at this time, the world was just beginning to absorb the impact of Marvin Gaye's seminal concept album What's Going On. The LP, released on May 21, 1971, told a story in music from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning to an America beset by poverty, injustice and ecological crisis. In a…

EXCLUSIVE: Asif Kapadia has signed with Cinetic Media for management in all areas. The Academy Award, BAFTA and Grammy-winning director-producer is best known for his innovative trilogy of narratively driven, archive-constructed documentaries, Senna, Amy and Diego Maradona. Following its world premiere at the 2015…

1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, an eight-part docuseries from the team behind the Oscar-winning documentary film Amy, is heading to Apple TV+ Executive produced by Oscar, BAFTA and Grammy winners Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna) and James Gay-Rees (Amy, Senna) the docuseries will explore the musicians and…

Six years ago I wrote a piece titled “All White At The Top,” asking why the UK film industry was painfully bereft of Black, Asian and minority ethnic executives. I drew up a list of more than 75 leading companies in production, sales, exhibition, distribution, post-production, public and private finance, VFX, talent…

Diego Maradona, the third film from Asif Kapadia after his 2016 Oscar winner Amy and Senna, hits U.S. theaters in New York and Los Angeles on September 20 before HBO premieres it October 1. The premium network picked up the rights to the feature-length documentary about the Argentina football legend — whose on-field…

Completing the third part of an unexpected trilogy delving into the darker side of fame, Asif Kapadia’s Diego Maradona premiered last night on the Croisette, even if its subject, in ill health, couldn’t make it into Cannes. That Maradona is alive at all—that he has lived long enough to find his second —might be the…

Asif Kapadia has directed two incredibly compelling documentaries about the lives—and untimely deaths—of Ayrton Senna and Amy Winehouse. He returns to Cannes to complete the third part of his unique trilogy with Diego Maradona, this time detailing the brilliant and troubled life of the still very much alive soccer…

Amazon is going global in a big way with the launch of 20 new and returning international series including titles from the likes of Amy director Asif Kapadia as well as a Japanese version of The Bachelorette. It has ordered a raft of scripted and non-scripted titles from Germany, Italy, Spain, India, Japan and Mexico…