Tag: Skin
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Film Academy Announces Student Academy Award Winners
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Friday the winners of its 50th annual Student Academy Awards.The 14 winners were chosen from a total of 2,443 entries from 720 colleges and universities around the world. Those who take home trophies at the student awards are eligible to compete at the following Oscars…
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Student Academy Award Winners Announced by Film Academy – Film News in Brief
The winners of the 50th Student Academy Awards competition have been announced by the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy voted 14 students out of 2,443 entries to win awards across four categories. They will be honored at an in-person award ceremony on Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel…
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‘Holy Spider’ Star Zar Amir Ebrahimi, ‘Golda’ Director Guy Nattiv Team on Iran-Defying Film ‘Untitled Judo,’ WestEnd to Launch Sales at EFM
WestEnd Films has acquired worldwide rights to political thriller “Untitled Judo” and will introduce it to buyers at Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM).The film, currently in post-production, is co-directed by Guy Nattiv (Oscar winner for short “Skin”) and Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Cannes best actress winner for “Holy Spider,” and co-written by Elham Erfani (“The Case…
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Producer Dillon Jordan Arrested on Prostitution Ring Charges
A California film producer was arrested on Thursday on charges that he used his production company, PaperChase Films, as a front for an international prostitution ring.Dillon Jordan, who produced “Skin” and “The Kindergarten Teacher,” was indicted last month on prostitution and money laundering charges. The indictment was unsealed on Thursday.The charges allege that Jordan ran…
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Writer Jack Thorne on Making ‘The Eddy’ Divisive and Writing ‘Harry Potter’ with Jk Rowling
Jack Thorne writes a lot. And I mean a lot. The guy has written on UK series as diverse as Skin, This Is England, and The Fades, co-wrote feature films like Wonder and The Aeronauts, and oh yeah, co-wrote the brand new Harry Potter play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with J.K. Rowling. His…
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‘Defending Jacob’ Trailer: Chris Evans’s Son May Be a Killer in New AppleTV+ Series
Aside from lending his voice to a few episodes of Robot Chicken, Chris Evans hasn’t appeared on a TV series since popping up in the pilot episode of the quickly-cancelled 2003 drama Skin. But in the wake of wrapping up his stellar run as Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and co-starring in the…
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‘Knives and Skin’ Trailer: A Missing Girl Sends a Town Down a Neon-Soaked Paranoid Spiral
Knives and Skin became a cult film festival darling this year, building up buzz for its neon-drenched missing girl mystery at Berlinale, the Tribeca Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, and AFI Fest. Now Jennifer Reeder‘s Lynchian thriller is making its way to theaters and VOD this December. Watch the Knives and Skin trailer below. Knives and…
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Skin review – tattooed neo-Nazi turns his face from evil
In this earnest, if limited drama, Jamie Bell plays a far-right footsoldier trying to quit a white-power cult after he falls in loveJamie Bell’s tough performance carries this forthright, earnest, if limited drama, based on the true story of a far-right American skinhead called Bryon Widner and his attempts to leave a neo-Nazi white-power cult.…
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Tribeca Announces 2019 Lineup, Achieves Gender Parity in Competition For First Time
The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival has announced its full feature film lineup for this year’s edition of the Manhattan festival, running April 24 – May 5. This year, the program has reached a new milestone: gender parity across its three competition sections. Standout offerings include new films from Lara Jean Gallagher, Mark Webber, Cindy Meehl,…
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Oscar Categories That Almost Didn’t Make It on TV Get Their Time in Spotlight
In the end, Oscar watchers and industry members all seemed relieved that all the categories were handed out on air, reversing the Academy’s original plan to present some categories during commercials.Recipients of the Academy Awards for cinematography, editing, make-up and hairstyling, and live-action shorts all got their time in the spotlight on Sunday night’s Oscar…