By Sherene Strausberg My first film, “Cool For You,” has been accepted into 39 film festivals and received multiple awards, including a Silver Anthem Award last month. As an independent filmmaker with no financial backing or creative support team, I produced, directed, animated, scored, and sound mixed/edited the an animated micro-short myself. I am proud…
“A Black Lady Sketch Show” returns to HBO for its fourth season next month, but we have even more to look forward to from the sketch comedy’s creator, showrunner, executive producer, writer, and star: Robin Thede has another project in development at the network, per Deadline. Titled “Disengagement,” the half-hour comedy series “centers on the…
Sophie Lane Curtis’ feature debut has secured distribution. Deadline reports that Gravitas Ventures landed worldwide rights to “On Our Way” with plans to release the award-winning drama in theaters and on-demand May 19. “On Our Way” follows a “tormented young filmmaker (Micheál Richardson) struggling to accept his latest script, which reveals how he lost the…
Diarra Kilpatrick is going into business with BET. The actress, writer, and producer signed an overall deal for its BET Studios division. “As part of the deal, BET+ ordered eight episodes of the straight-to-series project ‘Diarra from Detroit,’” per Deadline. Currently wrapping up production, the dark comedy “follows a divorcing schoolteacher with an acerbic sense…
Michelle Dockery is saying goodbye to period costumes and hello to a survival story. The “Downton Abbey” alumna has been tapped to lead Destry Allyn Spielberg’s directorial debut, “Please Don’t Feed the Children.” The psychological thriller takes place in the aftermath of a viral outbreak that “[ravages] the country’s adult population” and sees “a group…
Nancy Buirski’s look inside the making of an X-rated Best Picture winner has found a home. Kino Lorber in association with Zeitgeist Films have announced the acquisition of all North American distribution rights to “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy.” Zeitgeist will open the film theatrically in North America beginning at…
Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin won an Oscar for their look inside Alex Honnold’s quest to climb the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without a rope and took viewers behind the scenes of the world’s most famous cave dive in “The Rescue,” the story of how scuba divers helped rescue 12 boys and…
“Little Richard: I Am Everything” pays tribute to the OG rock ‘n roll icon. “He spit on every rule there was in music,” we’re told in a new trailer for the documentary from Lisa Cortés (“All In: The Fight for Democracy”). The Sundance title uncovers the Black queer origins of American pop music — and…
Anne Hathaway is showing off her pipes again. Deadline reports that the Oscar winner will play a fictional musician in “Mother Mary,” an “epic pop melodrama” that will see her joining forces with the history-making auteur behind “I May Destroy You,” Michaela Coel, who will play an “iconic fashion designer” in the pic. A24 is…
Eva Longoria’s narrative feature debut set SXSW ablaze. The fest has announced its Audience Award winners, and “Flamin’ Hot” took home the honor in the Headliners slate. The film tells the story of Richard Montañez, a Frito Lay janitor who “channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn Flamin’ Hot Cheetos into a snack…
