Mandy Walker made history at this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Industry Awards. A press release announced that she’s become the first woman to win the award for Best Cinematography in Film.

Walker received the award for her work on frequent collaborator Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” a biopic about the pop music icon’s meteoric rise to stardom and his relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. 

“I am honored to be the first woman to have won this award and I hope it’s opened the door to many more in the future,” Walker said in her acceptance speech. “A huge thank you to Baz Luhrmann for taking

“No one knows the full truth. We know the full truth,” says Prince Harry in a new trailer for “Harry & Meghan.” From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus, the Netflix docuseries revisits what exactly went down when Harry married “Suits” actress Meghan Markle.

As Harry explains, “There’s a hierarchy of the family, you know. There’s leaking, but there’s also planting of stories.” Meghan recalls, “I realized, they’re never going to protect you.”

Instead, “there was a war against Meghan to suit other people’s agendas,” we’re told. “It’s about hatred. It’s about race.” In Harry’s words, “It’s a dirty game.”

The spot also touches on “the pain and suffering of women marrying

“Aftersun” continues to burn bright this awards season. Charlotte Wells’ feature debut landed seven wins at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA), held London in Sunday. “The film won Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director. This evening’s four wins were added to the film’s previously announced haul in the craft categories with three wins including Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Music Supervision,” per Deadline.

Penned by Wells, “Aftersun” sees a woman reflecting on the seaside vacation she took with her father as a pre-teen. Newcomer Frankie Corio and “Normal People” breakout Paul Mescal star.

Three of the five titles

In-flight entertainment is getting an upgrade, thanks to Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing. The “Selma” director’s banner has partnered with JetBlue to launch an in-flight pop-up channel, featuring a curated selection of 12 independent feature films from women directors and filmmakers of color, a press release announced. The ARRAY channel made its debut December 1 and aims to “[amplify] the varied voices of storytellers” while taking advantage of the unique setting and experience of flying on a plane.

“Over the years, I’ve experienced transformative moments by watching films while flying. Something about the intimacy of being in the air as stories unfold has always appealed to me,” reflected DuVernay, who established

Apple TV+ thriller “Surface” will be back for a second season. Deadline reports that the streamer has renewed the series starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Sophie, a woman trying to build herself back up and recover lost memories after surviving a suicide attempt. 

Created by Veronica West, the upcoming season of “Surface” takes Sophie back to her native London, where she will revisit “unfinished relationships” and explore “what made her the flawed person she was,” per the source. “But the mess she left behind in San Francisco will catch up with her, as Sophie discovers once and for all, you can never outrun your past.”

“I am thrilled to continue this

Gurinder Chadha is set to make another empowering female-centric story — and make history. The “Bend It Like Beckham” helmer has been tapped to produce and helm an original musical feature for Disney that’s “inspired by a dynamic princess from Indian history,” per Deadline. This will mark the first time a Disney film has focused on an Indian princess.

So far, the plot is under wraps. Chadha is penning the script with frequent collaborator Paul Mayeda Berges.

Best known for “Bend It Like Beckham,” her 2002 smash hit about a British-Indian teenage girl who dreams of playing soccer, Chadha’s other credits include “Blinded by the Light,” “Viceroy’s House,” and “Angus,

Temperatures are dropping — there’s no better time to tune in and find your next TV addiction. Premiering December 1 on ALLBLK is “Wicked City,” the story of five witches who turn to forbidden magic to ressurect one of their own. Another genre offering, “Kindred,” sees an aspiring writer being pulled back and forth between the present day and Antebellum Times. “Zola” writer-director Janicza Bravo helmed the pilot of the sci-fi series, which is based on Octavia Butler’s novel of the same name and launches on Hulu December 13. Another series on our radar is “The Most Beautiful Flower” (“La Flor Más Bella”), a coming-of-age comedy about a highschooler

Once a decade, Sight and Sound conducts a survey of international film critics to compile a list of the greatest films of all time. For the first time in the poll’s 70-year history, a woman-directed film tops the list. Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” reigns supreme. Released in 1975, the drama tells the story of a middle-aged sex worker.

“This year’s poll reached a wider and more diverse group than ever before and incorporates the top 10 lists of over 1,600 participants from all corners of the globe who voted for more than 4,000 films overall,” a press release details. “This compares to the 846

In 1958, a trans woman who went by “Agnes Torres” outsmarted the system to attain gender-affirming healthcare. Thanks to her resourcefulness, she received hormones and corrective surgery from a UCLA gender study led by sociologist Harold Garfinkel. The remarkable case of a nineteen-year-old trans woman who made a life for herself has since served as a template for generations of trans folks to follow. Torres’ courageous maneuver is celebrated by many for exposing the performative nature of gender, a fragile social construct that can be dismantled.

A poetic fusion of fact and fiction, “Framing Agnes” borrows Torres’ case to revisit other trans individuals who have faded into obscurity, but have

“Strong people don’t need strong leaders: the emphasis was on the organizing,” civil rights activist Jennifer Lawson tells us in “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power,” Geeta Gandbhir (“Black and Missing”) and Sam Pollard’s (“Mr. Soul!”) documentary recounting the battle for Black suffrage and political justice in the Georgian county during mid-century America. Lawson here alludes to the ethos of bottom-up organizing endorsed by Ella Baker, a prominent architect of the American civil rights movement who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King, Jr, and paved the way for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). 

Baker’s insistence on community organizing is the through