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The AFI Awards winners are usually feted at a gala luncheon that kicks awards season in high gear. This year, however, with the coronavirus halting such gatherings, the tributes will culminate with a virtual benediction February 26 at YouTube.com/AFI and AFI.com. The new AFI Awards Audi Scholarships initiative will provide scholarships totaling $250,000 in the name of the honorees to women and BIPOC Fellows at the AFI Conservatory. … [Read more...] about AFI Awards’ TV Series Of The Year Include ‘Bridgerton’, ‘Lovecraft Country’, ‘The Mandalorian’, ‘Ted Lasso’

(The Producers Award honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films) … [Read more...] about Film Independent Spirit Awards: ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always,’ ‘Minari,’ ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ ‘Nomadland’ Top Nominations

Nathan Grossman’s I Am Greta, about Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, picked up the award for best documentary. The film, which premiered in Venice last year, follows Thunberg from her beginnings as a lone pupil holding school strikes for climate activism in Sweden to being named Time's Person of the Year in 2019.  … [Read more...] about Greta Thunberg Documentary, Tales of Mid-Life Crisis Win at Swedish Film Awards

EXCLUSIVE: Cara Delevingne, Eva Longoria, Margherita Buy, Marcia Gay Harden, Leonor Varela and Jacqueline Fernandez are among the all-star cast for anthology feature Women’s Stories, whose segments will be directed by filmmakers including Catherine Hardwicke. … [Read more...] about Cara Delevingne, Eva Longoria, Jacqueline Fernandez, Marcia Gay Harden, Catherine Hardwicke & More To Tell ‘Women’s Stories’

The market for the ears of kids and young adults is seen as one of the next growth areas for the podcast business. As such, watch out for a few shows from Gen-Z Media (GZM), the company behind the podcast that turned into Disney+ series The Big Fib. Its slate includes Cupid and The Reaper, a follow up to Becoming Mother Nature, which co-founder Benjamin Strouse describes as a “tween Avengers”. The show tells the origin story of middle-schoolers and mismatched heroes Marcus Duffy and Mondo Ramirez, aka Cupid and the Grim Reaper. The company is also preparing Tomorrow, which tells the story of billionaire entrepreneur Oliver Warbucks, who as America recovered from a pandemic and the second Great Depression that followed, adopts a young orphan named Annie, who is plunged into a mystery on the fifth anniversary of her ‘Gotcha Day’. … [Read more...] about Batman, Art Heists, Chippendales & Judy Garland’s Slippers: The Podcasts To Watch Out For In 2021