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BBC Casts ‘ My Name Is Leon ’ My Name is Leon . Malachi Kirby ( Small Axe ), Monica Dolan ( A Very English Scandal ), Olivia Williams ( Counterpart ), Christopher Eccleston ( The A Word ), Poppy Lee Friar ( In My Skin ), and Sir Lenny Henry CBE ( The Lord of the Rings ) headline the drama special. Cole Martin will play the lead, Leon, in his first TV role. Set in 1980s Birmingham, the drama tells the uplifting and incredibly moving story of nine-year-old Leon, a mixed-race boy, and his quest to reunite his family after being taken into care and separated from his blond and blue-eyed baby brother. My Name is Leon is produced by Douglas Road Productions in association with Tiger Aspect Productions, Ringside Studios, and Vicarious Productions. It is executive produced by Lenny Henry and Angela Ferreira for Douglas Road Productions, Gub Neal and Edward Barlow for Ringside Studios, Mona Qureshi for the BBC. The director is Lynette Linton. Ingenious Media provided funding … [Read more...] about BBC Casts ‘My Name Is Leon’; Red Arrow Locks-In CPL; ITV Renews ‘Finding Alice’; ITV Orders ‘Britain’s Tiger Kings’ — Global TV Briefs

Lebanese filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige explore the importance of personal and historical memory in a drama bouncing between Montreal and Beirut. The tragedy of the Lebanese civil war extends far beyond the 1980s and into the third generation of a family resettled in Canada in the affecting drama Memory Box . It marks the first film in nine years from the award-winning team Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, whose work has ranged freely over feature films, docs, installations and performance art. Though Memory Box shows the sophisticated modernity of their artistic approach, it is also one of the most accessible of their films, thanks to a winning cast of fine actresses and an engrossing back-and-forth timeline that jumps from wartime Beirut under the bombs to the staid tranquility of modern-day Montreal. It bows in competition in Berlin, where the directors’ intelligent probing into our perception of the past should find appreciation. Among other things, … [Read more...] about ‘Memory Box’: Film Review | Berlin 2021

Taking risks as a business leader can have a significant positive impact on your company if things turn out well, but it can also set you back if you haven’t fully thought through every pro and con. The practice of calculated risk-taking, however, is essential for business growth. To help, members of Rolling Stone Culture Council shared 10 tips to encourage fellow culture leaders to take more calculated risks and explained why doing so is vital to business success. Empower Your Team to Fail Fast Fail fast. Yes, do the research, understand the audience need you are addressing and plan how it will be executed, but also empower your team (or yourself!) to fail. And if you do fail, review, learn, iterate and execute again. It fosters a culture of creative courage and it’s great learning. – Michael Klein , Miraculo Inc. Related Working With an Influencer? Get Alignment With These Eight Strategies Failure Celebrate First Three Albums With Live … [Read more...] about 10 Tips to Take More Calculated Risks as a Business Leader

Whether by accident or design, the ultra-low-budget Language Lessons feels like a definitive film for the Covid-19 era, as the two main actors never appear in the same shot together until the very end. Seemingly created on two computers, this exceedingly modest tale of a Spanish-language instructor and pupil who meet online becomes more genially engaging as it goes along, although it never aims very high other than as a technical experiment that more or less succeeds. It plays just fine on home equipment and it’s hard to imagine that there would be anything to be gained from experiencing this Berlinale Special world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on the big screen. The script by indie stalwart Mark Duplass and director-actress Natalie Morales is entirely restricted to the chats the two characters, Adam and Cariño, have in the course of online language lessons bought for the former by his partner — 100 of them, no less. Adam and his mate Will are … [Read more...] about Int’l Critics Line: Todd McCarthy On ‘Language Lessons’ – Berlin

In &TV’s upcoming crime series, Mauka-E-Vardaat , now we hear that immensely popular and Haryanvi sensation, Sapna Choudhary will be a part of the show. &TV’s 'Mauka-E-Vardaat’ is a riveting weekday crime series highlighting mysterious crime cases that will boggle the audience’s mind, compelling one to believe that the rhetoric 'reality is stranger than fiction’. Returning to television after two long years, the singer-dancer says that &TV’s Mauka-E-Vardaat as the perfect show to make a comeback on Indian television. Sapna commented, “I am thrilled and excited to be a part of Mauka-E-Vardaat. I am returning to television after a gap of two years and with a crime-based show, which I feel not only a perfect comeback show for me but also the viewers will get to see me in a never-seen-before avatar. I will be seen giving a prelude into the most perplexing crimes in the show. Mauka-E-Vardaat is an anthology series featuring the most thrilling and most mysterious … [Read more...] about Haryanvi Sensation, Sapna Choudhary In &TV’s Upcoming Crime-Series, Mauka-E-Vardaat