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Once again with feeling, Insiders. Jesse Whittock at the helm this week with a roundup of the biggest news and views from the TV and film world. Off we go, and sign up to the Insider newsletter for the full experience here. BBC Cuts Begin It starts now: There’s an argument that this is one […]

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The Netflix documentary series “Beyond Society” (“Más Allá de la Sociedad”) had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 23. The three-part doc series, created by Juan Antonio Bayona (“Society of the Snow,” “The Impossible,” “A Monster Calls”) and Carlos Torres (“Pajares & CIA,” “Crims”), picks up where Bayona’s film […]

No one likes ticks – least of all “Tick Fever” director Sebastian Granskog. “Every Finn has learned to live in fear of ticks since the summers of their childhood. It’s a tiny insect that latches onto your body, breaks through your skin, starts drinking your blood and grows bigger as it takes what it wants […]

Director Paolo Natale’s experimental hybrid documentary/video-essay, “Our Raised Skin” (“Nuestra Piel Levantada”), is currently in advanced development as part of Madrid Film School’s (ECAM) incubator program. It’s one of the five projects selected for La Incubadora’s ninth edition. “The film reflects on and questions self-perception, asking at what point in childhood we go from being […]

If you ever attended a major film festival in the last three decades, chances are you came across an auburn-haired woman sporting fashionable big glasses and pristinely curated outfits from some of Brazil’s most exciting up-and-coming fashion designers. This is Ilda Santiago, the artistic director of Brazil’s leading Rio Film Festival. The programming veteran has […]

The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival has announced a slate of cultural programs running alongside its main competition, headlined by a 13-film retrospective honoring Mizoguchi Kenji on the 70th anniversary of his death, a symposium exploring a potential new international anime award, and a 10th-anniversary celebration of its Teens Cinema Workshop. The Mizoguchi tribute, staged […]

EXCLUSIVE: International TV industry veteran Noel Hedges has found his next gig. We can reveal Hedges has joined Canada’s Boat Rocker Studios as Senior VP, Global Acquisitions and Content Strategy. The role will be based in Boat Rocker’s London, UK office. This comes after Deadline was first with the news Hedges had exited Lionsgate earlier […]

In 2025, Walter Salles made history when he won Brazil with “I’m Still Here” its first-ever Oscar for a Portuguese-language film directed by a Brazilian, beating “Emilia Pérez” for Best International Film. Mere weeks after that historic night, Brazil doubled down on that momentum, with Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” winning a rare two […]

BBC Studios has a new global distribution chief in place. Sally Habbershaw is exiting Mediawan after less than a year to become President of Global Distribution at the BBC’s commercial arm. Her London-based role will see her overseeing BBCS’s worldwide content sales business, reporting into Zai Bennett, BBC Studios Global Content CEO and Chief Creative […]

A woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 now says she has never met the rap superstar.