Islam Needs Hollywood. No, Really.
Commend Hollywood for having the good sense to use the soapbox provided by the Golden Globes this past Sunday to speak out in myriad ways about the importance of tolerance in our post-Charlie Hebdo...
View ArticleParis Mayor Plans to Sue Fox News Over ‘No-Go Zone’ Claims
Fox News has provided French journalists with meaty comedy material via its claim that Paris harbors no-go zones where Sharia law is observed. But Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo isn’t laughing. In fact, she...
View ArticleBerlin: Kino Lorber Takes U.S. on Charlie Hebdo Docu ‘It’s Hard…’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Allowing Americans access to a film that has gained tragically urgent relevance, Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to Daniel Leconte’s 2008 Charlie Hebdo docu-feature “It’s Hard Being Loved By...
View ArticleBerlin: Films on Charlie Hebdo, Terrorism Draw Interest at Festival
BERLIN – Like several of the Oscar best-picture nominees, the highest-profile — and among the bestselling – projects at this year’s Berlin European Film Market were based on real-life events: IM...
View ArticleCopenhagen Shootings Leaves Two Dead at Free Speech Event And Synagogue
Update: The lone gunman who killed two people at a cultural center and a synagogue in Copenhagen, was shot dead by police on Sunday. The 22-year old suspect, identified as Omar Abdel Hamid el-Hussein,...
View ArticleUnifrance, Kino Lorber and IFC Center Host NY Screening of Charlie Hebdo Doc
PARIS — As part of the 20th Rendez-Vous With French Cinema fest, Unifrance Films, Kino Lorber and IFC Center will be hosting a special screening of Daniel Leconte’s documentary “Though Being Loved by...
View ArticleToronto Film Review: ‘Je suis Charlie’
The first of at least two documentaries to arrive while France is still reeling from last January’s attack on Charlie Hebdo, “Je suis Charlie” benefits from the fact directors Daniel and Emmanuel...
View ArticleNetflix Takes Pyramide-Sold Docu ‘Je Suis Charlie’ (EXCLUSIVE)
PARIS – Giving far wider potential play to an insider’s documentary on an event and group of artists that moved the world, Paris-based Pyramide International has licensed docu-feature tribute “Je suis...
View ArticleDocumentary Producers Injured in Knife Attack Near Former Charlie Hebdo...
Two people severely injured in a knife attack outside the former Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo are staff at production company Premieres Lignes, which made HBO documentary...
View ArticleIndian Sci-Fi ‘Hawk’s Muffin’ Explores Dystopian Post-Pandemic Future –...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is informing film and television works around the world and Malayalam-language film “Hawk’s Muffin” (“Prappeda”) – selected in this week’s International Film Festival...
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