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Journalist Jemele Hill and two-time Super Bowl champ Malcolm Jenkins joined Don Lemon on Tuesday for a SXSW conversation about activism, racism and how Americans can move forward with their fight against white supremacy. The panel, which helped kick off day one of the 28th edition of the SXSW Film Festival, began with…

The Cannes Film Festival said Tuesday that Spike Lee will be its jury president in 2021, one year after he was due to preside over the festival but couldn’t due to its cancellation. The 74th edition of Cannes is due to run July 6-17 after being pushed back from its traditional May slot due to the pandemic. The…

EXCLUSIVE: For successful attorney Claude Motley, a return home to Milwaukee to attend his high school reunion almost turned fatal. He had just dropped off a friend in a residential neighborhood when his vehicle was surrounded by carjackers. One of them shot him in the face. The story of Motley's long recuperation…

HBO Max is set to launch its interactive digital experience called HBO Max Orbit at SXSW Online. The streamer’s newest immersive venture will allow audiences to experience its content like they never had before. SXSW Online will take place March 16-20. The HBO Max Orbit experience at SXSW Online will respond to facial…

The Santa Barbara Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Aaron Maurer’s documentary Invisible Valley, which profiles the stories of the disparate people that make up the Coachella Valley. It kicks off a festival that will run March 31-April 10 with a hybrid edition that includes online elements and…

UPDATED with latest: Carey Mulligan will receive the Cinema Vanguard Award next month at the 36th annual Santa Barbara Film Festival, joining the likes of Bill Murray, Amanda Seyfried and Delroy Lindo on the fest’s honorees list this year. Mulligan, who stars in Focus Features’ Promising Young Woman, will be honored…

UPDATED WRITETHRU: The Berlin Film Festival revealed its 2021 awards in a virtual presentation this afternoon with Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn scooping the top prize Golden Bear. Also among winners are debut filmmaker Dénes Nagy who took the Silver Bear for Best Director with Natural Light. Maria…

The ATX Television Festival will mark its tenth year with an expanded edition. For the second consecutive year, the Austin, TX-based fest will be virtual. It will run for an expanded ten days from Friday, June 11 through Sunday, June 20, 2021 and include interactive events to encourage a shared community…

The two most mature and emotionally insightful 8-year-old girls you've ever encountered in your life are the subjects of Petite Maman. Magnetically attentive to the serious "things of life," as the French put it, Céline Sciamma's 72-minute study of an intense brief friendship between two girls of extraordinary similar…

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery+ continues to ramp up it documentary slate. The fast-growing streamer has acquired rights to Rebel Hearts, the Pedro Kos-directed documentary that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It will now get a theatrical release as well as a global bow on the streamer later this year. Rebel Hea…

South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo has been a particular favorite at the Berlin Film Festival for quite some time — he won the Best Director prize there last year for The Woman Who Ran — and he's back again this year with another competition entry, Introduction. A study of indecision and uncertainty in the realms of…

Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin co-directed the sports documentary Undefeated in 2011, and their Berlin Film Festival Special Gala, Tina, could have shared the same title. While this is set in the world of music, its emphasis is on the resilience, survival and comeback of its subject, singer Tina Turner. Featuring a…