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In the mid-70s, her father became the first Black general manager of a TV station in the country when the Federal Communications Commission suspended the local station at Jackson, Mississippi for racist practices and mandated that it be run by a Black group. It was there, growing up in Mississippi, that Erika Dilday understood the importance of having a “diversity of voices within the narrative.

The Russian invasion “shocked the world with images and stories telling of a truly horrific and heartbreaking situation,” as British Academy President Krishnendu Majumdar said at the start of BAFTA awards ceremony. On the red carpet, some stars wore badges or ribbons in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, including Golden Globe nominee Benedict Cumberbatch.

The news wasn’t that The Batman stayed on top – no surprise there – but that BTS Permission to Dance on Stage – Seoul: Live Viewing, which showed domestically one time on Saturday only, landed third and earned $6. 84 million.

Italian cinema is once again at the top of the weekly box office charts. In only four days of screenings, C’era una volta il crimine came close to reaching the podium, overtaking Death on the Nile and remaining behind only the two U.

Spring has sprung in Central Europe but that did not stop fans to flock to a rather dark movie this last weekend: The Batman was the number one choice. And yet, the biggest surprise was a live-streamed concert by the K-Pop stars BTS and a Turkish biopic about a tragic singer.

The Luxor African Film Festival wrapped up its 11th week-long session on Thursday evening, March 10, 2022, and African filmmakers were embraced by the charming Egyptian city of Luxor, the largest open museum in the world. In 11 editions the festival has made its mark on the map of prominent African film gatherings and counted on the support of distinct and eager audiences every year.

The 75th British Academy Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Film Awards ceremony was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Sunday and was hosted by Australian actress Rebel Wilson. The Power of the Dog, which received the Golden Globe earlier this year, won BAFTA for Best Film and garnered BAFTA for Best Director for the Golden Globe winner Jane Campion.

Michelle Yeoh stars in the science fiction film Everything Everywhere All at Once, that premiered at the 2022 SXSW South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. The Malaysian actress – acclaimed for her performances in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) by Ang Lee, The Lady (2011) by Luc Besson, Crazy Rich Asians (2018) by Jon Chu – spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2005 about her role in Memoirs of a Geisha, directed by Rob Marshall from the 1997 novel by Arthur Golden.

Italian documentary film director Cecilia Mangini, legendary and little known at the same time, is honored with a retrospective at the Academy Museum called “Rare Takes: The Works of Cecilia Mangini” from March 5 - 20, 2022. It will happen a year after her death in Rome on January 21, 2021 – she was 93.

On July 7, 1896, the Lumière brothers screened six of their silent short films at the Watson Hotel in Mumbai, India. They were Entry of Cinematographe, The Sea Bath, Arrival of a Train, A Demolition, Ladies and Soldiers on Wheels, and Leaving the Factory.