Before Rolling Stone or Creem, there was SOUL newspaper. Behind SOUL was Regina Jones.
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77th Cannes Film Festival Winners – Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ Wins Palme d’or
© Joachim Tournebize / Festival Anora directed by Sean Baker won the Palme d’or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The jury led by Greta Gerwig selected the comedy drama film of Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, who gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
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‘Ren Faire’ – HBO Docuseries Chronicles Succession Battle at Texas Renaissance Festival
Ren Faire (HBO / screenshot) HBO revealed the official trailer for “Ren Faire” a 3-part documentary series which chronicles a fantastic and farcical succession battle of Shakespearean proportions at the Texas Renaissance Festival.
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Brande Roderick’s 70s Horror Throwback Film ‘Wineville’ Acquired by Dark Star Pictures
Wineville (Dark Star Pictures) Dark Star Pictures has acquired the US and Canadian rights to the wine-soaked horror film Wineville -the directorial debut from director/producer/star Brande Roderick (Starsky and Hutch, Baywatch).
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‘I Am: Celine Dion’ Singer Gets Emotional Talking About Her Illness in Personal Documentary | Trailer
I Am: Celine Dion (Prime Video / screenshot) “If I can’t run, I’ll walk, if I can’t walk, I’ll crawl… I won’t stop” Prime Video debuted the official trailer for I Am: Celine Dion (Je suis: Céline Dion), a new documentary chronicling Dion’s career and her battle with stiff-person syndrome.
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NY Premiere of ‘The Blond Boy from the Casbah’ to Open 29th Stony Brook Film Festival
The Blond Boy from the Casbah (courtesy Stony Brook Film Festival) The 29th Stony Brook Film Festival will run from Thursday, July 18, through Saturday, July 27, 2024, offering 36 feature and short films from 19 countries.
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Girls Will Be Girls, Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement Win CAAMFest 2024 Awards
Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement Girls Will Be Girls directed by Shuchi Talati won the Narrative Competition Award; and Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement directed by Quyên Nguyen-Le and Tadashi Nakamura won the Documentary Competition Award at Center for Asian American Media’s CAAMFest 2024. Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement also won the Audience Award for Documentary Feature.
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RIP. Morgan Spurlock, Super Size Me Director Dead at 53
Morgan Spurlock in “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!” Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock known for directing the Oscar nominated documentary Super Size Me has died from complications of cancer. He was 53.
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Tribeca Festival Announces Jury For Film, Games, and Audio Storytelling Competitions – Kim Cattrall, David O. Russell, Asghar Farhadi
The Tribeca Festival announced the 2024 jury members who will select winning projects in the film, games, and audio storytelling sections. The Festival has 17 competition categories in which jurors will honor winning storytellers and creators with artistic awards.
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48th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Frameline48) Unveils Lineup with Lena Waithe, Lady Camden
From L to R: Lady Camden in Lady Like, courtesy of the filmmaker; Lena Waithe, courtesy Variety. Frameline rolled out the full program for the 48th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Frameline48) screening from June 19–29 in theaters across the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Eminem, 50 Cent, Timbaland Featured in ‘How Music Got Free’ Paramount+ Docuseries | Trailer
(Paramount+ / screenshot) Paramount+ debuted the official trailer for How Music Got Free, the two-part docuseries on the how technology changed the music industry, from executive producers Marshall “Eminem” Mathers, LeBron James, Maverick Carter, Paul Rosenberg and Steve Stoute.
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Tribeca Festival Unveils Immersive Lineup of Digital Artists
(Tribeca Festival) The 2024 Tribeca Festival announced its immersive lineup of digital artists, presented in partnership with Mercer Labs and Co-Founder, artist Roy Nachum. Now in its 13th year, Tribeca Festival’s immersive exhibition runs June 6-17 at Mercer Labs, the newly-opened museum of art and technology, at 21 Dey Street in lower Manhattan.