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Zendaya has packed a lifetime into a quarter of a century, garnering firsts like the first woman of color to portray MJ in Spiderman, clocking an Emmy Award, and becoming the youngest recipient for a Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Euphoria. She did a music collaboration with Bella Thorne and showed she has serious pipes in The Greatest Showman.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is known for its eclectic and diverse programs. This year, its 51st edition has gone remote, once again due to the Covid-19 surge.

There is a beautiful melody wafting over German-speaking lands, and it comes from the beautiful voices in Sing 2. The animation sequel has dominated the box office in both Germany and Austria.

Another meager week for cinema in Italy has come to an end, with only two productions (the first two in the box office charts) exceeding 500 thousand euros. Nothing to be surprised about: the audience and the pandemic go hand in hand.

The Sundance Film Festival 2022 went virtual - again - but that did not deter movie fans and reviewers from watching what was a great selection. In this edition of our "Golden Globes Around the World" podcast, HFPA journalists Vera Anderson and Elisabeth Sereda discuss the winners, talk about their personal favorites in both the feature and documentary sections, and predict which Sundance films will have the staying power to last into the awards season.

Halle Berry won a Golden Globe in 2000 as Best Actress in a Motion Picture Made for Television for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge directed by Martha Coolidge. Later that year she won an Emmy for the same outstanding performance.

Actors John Early (My Trip to Spain), Donald Elise Watkins (EMERGENCY) and Lily McInerny (Palm Trees and Power Lines) assembled for the Cinema Cafe Fresh Faces panel at the Sundance Film Festival.   Hosted by writer/director Joey Soloway, who set the tone perfectly for a loose, casual and entertaining interaction while they tackle some heady subjects.

In addition to minimizing political pluralism, pitting social groups against one another, and consolidating power by ginning up enemies of the state, authoritarian regimes survive and thrive by strangling hope — targeting those able to land real, sustained, and potentially lethal critiques to the body politic, and making examples out of them. In Russia over the last decade or so, no homegrown figure has posed more of a threat to the iron-fisted rule of President Vladimir Putin (who’s so spooked that he won’t refer to him by name) than Alexei Navalny, a lawyer whose anti-corruption activism catapulted him to the status of chief opposition leader.

Documentaries have, for the most part, replaced ethical journalism. If you read this as a journalist and you are offended, think about this: how often these days are we able to read the real story amidst the headline-grabbing sensationalism, opinionated punditry, and time-restricted blurbs instead of facts researched patiently and well that has replaced straightforward information? Documentary filmmakers have the luxury of time, something that has long been lost in the fast news cycles that cater to and cause attention deficit disorder.

Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Founder and Director, Nic Novicki, who presented at the Golden Globes this year, kicked off the 2022 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge at the Sundance Film Festival.    He was joined by Karim Ahmad, Director of Outreach and Inclusion for the Sundance Institute; and eight-time film challenge participants.