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Ever since director Davis Guggenheim's nonfiction distillation of former American Vice President Al Gore's deeply personal slideshow about the dangers of global warming, 2006's An Inconvenient Truth, galvanized viewers en route to racking up $50 million in the worldwide box office and two Oscar victories, environmental documentaries have had to grapple with its enormous cultural footprint. Previously seen as a niche market cinematically speaking, environmentalism has now gone mainstream.

In May 2019, Taiwan became the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage, embracing a world of non-binary and gender equality. Last year, director Patrick Liu’s Your Name Engraved Herein became the first LGBTQ-themed film to surpass NT$100 million in Taiwan’s domestic box office.

While studying film at Columbia University, Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili contemplated what it meant to belong somewhere.   When she returned to her home country she visited the small mountain village where her father used to live.

On March 9, 1997, Christopher George Latore Wallace, better known by his stage name the Notorious B. I.

Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal is about a heavy metal drummer who loses his sense of hearing. As the audience follows the character Ruben, played by Riz Ahmed, on his journey from becoming deaf to finding himself as a deaf man, the task of the editor Mikkel E.

Who won in the tight box office battle between Mortal Kombat and Demon Slayer? As Godzilla and Kong continue to duke it out against rivals in the overseas box office, Mortal Kombat, led by Cole Young (Lewis Tan) and Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train (original title – Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-Hen), fronted by Tanjiro Kamado (voiced by Zach Aguilar), fought for numbers one and two positions in the domestic chart. Mortal Kombat won this round in the domestic market.

Denzel Washington, honored with the Cecil B. deMille award at the 2016 Golden Globes, talked to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1987 about Cry Freedom (1987) directed by Richard Attenborough.

Kids in the Spotlight (KITS) provides screenwriting and film production courses to young adults in Los Angeles’ foster care system. The founder, Tige Charity, stands behind this courageous effort to give underprivileged youths a creative outlet, which sometimes turns out to be life-changing.

The Urban Peace Institute recently awarded completion certificates to this year’s class of graduates from its community leadership programs. In a remote event billed as the Leadership Institute Celebration, certificates were awarded to those who completed Institute workshops in the “emerging”, advanced” and “congress” levels.

While Hollywood made thousands of films from the 1920s to the 1960s, the African film industry can only be traced back to the decolonization period of the continent. What film production existed under foreign rule was stereotyped, and merely used Africa as an “exotic” background for Western cinema.