Marusya Syroechkovskaya is a Moscow-born award-winning filmmaker and visual artist who had to flee Russia in March 2022 as the crackdown on opposition voices increased. Her student short film, “Exploration of Confinement,” received a Jury Award at the 2013...
Audiences may be reuniting with Genovia’s royal family: a new “Princess Diaries” movie is in the works at Disney. Deadline confirmed the news.Penned by “Supergirl” alumna Aadrita Mukerji, the film will mark the third installment of the franchise based...
“We destroyed their past but you’re destroying their future,” an oil exec is told in the trailer for Rebecca and Josh Tickell’s “On Sacred Ground,” a narrative feature that revisits the controversial construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The...
Celeste Barber’s first Netflix comedy special is on the way. Filmed during an encore performance of her “Celeste Barber – Fine, Thanks” tour, the hour-long special will be available on the streamer in 2023, per Deadline. The special sees Barber...
Dawn Porter is an award-winning writer and producer. Her work has been featured on HBO, Netflix, CNN, PBS, MSNBC, MTV Films, and other platforms. Porter’s 2016 film “Trapped,” which explores laws regulating abortion clinics in the South, won the...
Kate Winslet and real-life daughter Mia Threapleton share the screen in “I Am Ruth,” an upcoming installment of Channel 4’s “I Am” anthology series. A newly released trailer for the feature-length drama introduces Ruth (Winslet) and Freya (Threapleton), a...
Director and writer Marianela Maldonado has helmed several short fiction films including “The Look of Happiness” and “Breaking Out,” both of which premiered at Cannes Film Festival. She has co-written projects such as the Oscar-winning short “Peter and the...
What if there was a way for women to communicate with each other secretly? For women to freely express their innermost sorrows and desires without the understanding of men? Such a language exists – and has existed for thousands...
Ting Poo is following up “Val,” her acclaimed 2021 documentary about actor Val Kilmer, with a portrait of another industry vet. She’s helming a doc about five-time Grammy winner Christina Aguilera that’s being produced by Time Studios and Roc...
Alexis Neophytides is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and educator based in New York City. Her work centers around community and how we find meaning in people and place. She is the co-creator, co-director, and producer of “Neighborhood Slice,” a...
