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The Venice Film Festival is winding down, but the red carpet presented elegance in black and white. Fashion around the globe also popped.

Francesca Brill is the creator behind the psychological thriller The Drowning, which has a strong female lead who deals with the grief of losing her son. The mini-series starts out with a chance sighting of a young teenager, which convinces the mother that her four-year-old son she lost in a tragic accident is not dead after all.

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Kristen Stewart had a lesson in royalty in order to tackle the iconic role of Princess Diana in the movie Spencer, which received its world premiere at the 78th Venice Film Festival. “We had royal advisors,” explained the Seberg actress at the movie’s official press conference on the Lido.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) today elected German journalist Helen Hoehne as the Association’s president, leading its expanded Board of Directors. The vote follows that of the Board and Credentials Committee, which will be responsible for overseeing the ongoing reform plan to restructure the organization along the lines of accountability, ethics, and greater inclusion of the diversity of world journalism.

Filipino-American documentary filmmaker Ramona Diaz grew up watching western cinema. She tells HFPA journalist Ruben Nepales that she went to movies every Saturday with her dad.

When the end credits started to roll after the first press screening of Dune at the Venice Film Festival, enthusiastic applause filled the Sala Grande screening theater. Director Denis Villeneuve’s bold adaptation of Frank Herbert’s iconic science fiction novel divides the 412-page book into two sections, with Dune: Part One (the movie’s full moniker) introducing audiences to the dangerous desert planet of Arrakis, colossal sandworms and a young heir named Paul Atreides (played by Golden Globe-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet).

Alongside the big-screen debuts of 22 feature-length films (and 14 short films) at the 78th Venice Film Festival, television also had its presence felt with the premiere of HBO’s five-part limited series, Scenes from a Marriage. The project is a modern adaptation of the 1973 Swedish series by six-time Golden Globe winner Ingmar Bergman, with Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac in the lead roles.

When Afghan film director Sonia Nassery Cole was a young girl in Kabul, she and her father would go to the cinema together every week. As the eldest of three children, her father pampered his daughter with this special time together, little suspecting that Sonia would go on to become a fierce and challenging teller of stories to the world about her homeland.

Ever since Edgar Wright (Baby Driver, Shaun of the Dead) moved to London 25 years ago, he candidly admits, he’s had a conflicted relationship with the British capital. The Poole, Dorset, native spent more time hanging out in the Soho district than he did on any of the couches in his home; so, making a film about the renowned London neighborhood almost became inescapable to him.