Armando Iannucci, Francis Annan to receive Black Nights’ first Dda Spotlight Awards

New award to recognise diversity and inclusion in cinema.Filmmakers Armando Iannucci and Francis Annan are to be the first recipients of the Dda Spotlight Award at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia.The new honour has been established to recognise diversity in inclusion in cinema.

UK writer-director Iannucci will be honoured for his latest feature, The Personal History Of David Copperfield, which has an inclusive cast led by Dev Patel.Fellow UK filmmaker Annan will be awarded for his latest feature, Escape From Pretoria, which stars Daniel Radcliffe as anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin, who was sentenced to

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