Dr. Stacy L Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative have launched The Inclusion List, a new initiative that showcases inclusion in entertainment. “Who says hashtag activism can’t create change?” a press release announcing the news asks. “Eight years after April Reign launched the #OscarsSoWhite movement, an initiative, backed by new research shows that there have been more nominations for people of color at Hollywood’s top awards.”

The website will “track and celebrate progress in entertainment,” offering users “an online experience that focuses on the Academy Awards and allows visitors to see where change has occurred and where it has not. The landmark project covers inclusion from 1929—the first of 95

Castille Landon has major star power attached to her next project. Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, and  Alfre Woodard will lead “Summer Camp,” per Deadline. 

Penned by Landon, the comedy follows Nora, Ginny, and Mary, “who have been best friends since childhood, spending their summers together inseparably at sleepaway camp. As the years have passed, they’ve seen each other less and less, so when the chance to reunite for a summer camp reunion arises, they all take it, some begrudgingly and others, excitedly. Each of their lives might not be where they’d imagined, but one thing is for sure — Nora, Ginny, and Mary need each other, and summer camp reminds

Savanah Leaf’s “Earth Mama” will open the 52nd edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF). Jointly presented by the Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center, the fest will take place March 29-April 9.

“Earth Mama” marks Leaf’s feature debut. Described as a “devastating and evocative portrait of motherhood refracted through the prisms of race and class,” the coming-of-age pic tells the story of a pregnant single mom in the Bay Area.

Other titles set to screen include Manuela Martelli’s “Chile ’76,” the story of a woman asked to help care for a young man her local priest is providing shelter to, and Tia Kouvo’s “Family Time,” a comedy

Teyana Taylor insists that she’s willing to “go to war” for her son in a new trailer for “A Thousand and One,” the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s edition of Sundance Film Festival. The drama centers around Inez (Taylor), a woman who kidnaps her six-year-old son, Terry, from the foster care system. The spot suggests that the mother and son’s secret doesn’t stay under wraps indefinitely.

Years pass. Now a star student, Terry is poised for the likes of MIT and Harvard. “Something’s going to happen. I can feel it,” Inez says. And it does. “Have you told anyone else about this?” we see Terry being

“The wounds of some hearts aren’t always visible to the natural eye,” we’re told in a new trailer for “Rare Objects.” Co-written and directed by “Dawson’s Creek” alumna Katie Holmes, the adaptation of Kathleen Tessaro’s novel of the same name tells the story of an unlikely friendship that blossoms in a psychiatric hospital.

Benita (Julia Mayorga, “American Rust”) is determined to reclaim her sense of self after being institutionalized. She lands a job at a shop selling rare artifacts and decides to take some time off school. She reconnects with the woman (Katie Holmes) she befriended at the hospital and the pair celebrate “second chances” — but the spot suggests

“The one thing I’m lacking in my life is, like, real connection — possibly because I’m insecure and have got no mates,” says Daisy May Cooper in a new trailer for “Am I Being Unreasonable?” The hit BBC comedy-thriller launches in the U.S. April 11 on Hulu.

Created by Cooper and Selin Hizli, the series follows Nic (Cooper), a woman stuck in an unfulfilling marriage who is grieving a loss that she can’t share with anyone. She finds a kindred spirit in Jen (Hizli), a new friend she forms an intense bond with. The honeymoon period is short-lived: it’s not long before Nic begins to suspect that Jen isn’t who

Rebecca Lenkiewicz has been announced as this year’s recipient of the WGA West’s Paul Selvin Award for penning the script for “She Said.” The honor is “presented to that member whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties which are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere and to those whose defense Paul Selvin committed his professional life,” per the WGA.

“She Said” is based on Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s book of the same name and their NYT investigation. The film revisits how the journalists exposed Harvey Weinstein’s long history of abuse in Hollywood and helped bring the #MeToo movement to the

“Till” will open the 2023 Athena Film Festival (AFF). A press release announced that Chinonye Chukwu’s acclaimed drama, which tells the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley’s pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who was lynched while visiting his cousins, is set to kick off the 13th edition of the fest. Chukwu’s debut feature, ‘Clemency,’ was on the 2017 Athena List and screened at the 2020 Festival. She was honored in 2021 with the launch of the Chinonye Chukwu Emerging Writer Award, which supports funds for emerging talent in the Athena Writers Lab.Tracy Droz Tragos’ “Plan C,” a documentary that spotlights a grassroots network fighting to expand

A trailer has arrived for one of the best-reviewed films out of Sundance 2023. Written and directed by Celine Song, “Past Lives” sees Greta Lee reuniting with a childhood sweetheart after spending decades apart.

“There is a word in Korean: In-Yun. It means providence, or fate,” says Nora (Lee) in the spot. She and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) first met as classmates in South Korea. Their paths diverged when Nora’s family emigrated from the country. Now living in New York City and married to an American man (John Magaro), Nora receives a visit from her former flame. He can’t help but wonder what would have happened if she hadn’t left

“Am I Being Unreasonable?” is heading stateside thanks to Hulu. The streamer acquired U.S. rights to the BBC comedy-thriller led by BAFTA TV Award winner Daisy May Cooper. Deadline reports that its six-episode debut season will launch as a Hulu original April 11.

Written by the “This Country” co-creator and star and Selin Hizli (“Mum”), the series follows Nic (Cooper), “a mother grieving a loss that she can’t share with anyone whilst stuck in a depressing marriage. Only her son, Ollie (Lenny Rush, ‘Apple Tree House’), keeps her going. But when Jen (Hizli) arrives in town, her life is lit up with laughter and, through this kindred soul, her secret