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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…

Amazon Prime Video has scored a documentary about Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, widely considered one of the greatest footballers of his generation and who almost singlehandedly won Liverpool the Champions League in 2005. The film, Make Us Dream, is produced by Amy and Senna producer James Gay-Rees and is the definitive…

Amy Oscar winners James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia are executive producing a new BBC One documentary series about the 1993 murder of 18-year-old black student, Stephen Lawrence, by a group of white teenage boys. On the 25th anniversary of the murder, the three-part series will look at the events of the past quarter…

IFC Films has fallen hard for Oscar winner Asif Kapadia’s epic love story, Ali & Nino, with the company taking North American rights. This follows the film’s January premiere at Sundance. IM Global and CAA handled the sale. The adaptation of the best-selling novel by Kurban Said was scripted by Oscar winner…

Amy, about the life and death of English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, won the Documentary Feature Oscar this year for director Asif Kapadia despite objections to the movie being raised by her father. The film, which also won Best Documentary Feature at the BAFTAs only a week ago, was put into production and went…

Shortly after Asif Kapadia stepped onstage at the BAFTAs last weekend to collect his Best Documentary award for Amy, Amy Winehouse's father Mitch sent out a tweet making his feelings clear. "This is a one dimensional, miserable and misleading portrait of Amy," he wrote. "Asif knows." It wasn't his first such missive…

Will Clarke’s Altitude Films is hoping lightning strikes twice by re-uniting with director Asif Kapadia on Maradona, a feature length doc about the brilliant and controversial Argentinian footballer Diega Maradona. Working with Kapadia will be his Amy collaborators James Gay-Reese and Chris King. Altitude released…

Asif Kapadia is set to direct Silver Ghost, a fact based drama that will be a coproduction betwen Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions and Zuma Productions. Scorsese, who was first brought the project years ago by the late Richard Attenborough, will produce with Anthony Haas. Kapadia helmed the terrific racing docu Se…