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Rosario Dawson takes us on a journey of questions in the anthology crime series Briarpatch.  Actress, producer, director, and activist, Dawson started her career as a teenager in the film Kids and has been acting ever since.

In our second annual Restoration Summit, presented at the American Cinematheque, the HFPA is proud to present two days of films, conversations and lectures surveying the latest developments in film preservation and restoration. The HFPA, whose recent contributions include the restoration of the 1926 silent film THE BLACK PIRATE (spearheaded by director Alexander Payne and currently in progress), is committed to preserving film heritage and supporting restorations of films worldwide.

Every year, the Sundance Film Festival has one big controversial documentary on their schedule. Just remember Alex Gibney’s anti-Scientology film Going Clear, and last year’s Leaving Neverland, a multiple-part HBO doc about Michael Jackson’s pedophilia.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B. deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

Theaters were shuttered in China for the second weekend in a row as the country deals with the Coronavirus outbreak growing to over 18,000 reported cases and 362 dead. This drove global box office receipts to unexpected lows.

HBO The Outsider's literary pedigree is spotless: based on Stephen King's novel of the same title,  adapted for TV by screenwriter Richard Price, Oscar nominee in 1986 for The Color of Money,  and author of acclaimed TV series such as The Deuce and The Night Of.   As in the novel, the series mixes two genres seemingly incompatible, the crime thriller and the supernatural mystery.

 In August 2017, Swedish journalist Kim Wall was brutally murdered and dismembered by self-proclaimed Danish inventor Peter Madsen in his homemade submarine. At the time Australian documentarian Emma Sullivan was following Madsen in order to tell a completely different story about the eccentric self-made inventor’s Rocket-Madsen’s Space Laboratory.

After surprising the world with his stellar performance as Pablo Escobar in Narcos, for which he received a Golden Globes nomination in 2016, Wagner Moura disappeared as an actor until last September, when The Wasp Network, not still released commercially, was shown in Venice. So it is a big surprise to see him in his first leading role in English in Sergio, a Netflix production that was part of the Premieres program at the Sundance Film Festival, where he also was a member of the International Jury.

For over 40 years the Golden Globes have recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers.   Born in Liverpool, England, and raised between Canada, London and New York Kim Cattrall won a GoldenGlobe in 2003 for her work in Sex and the City and was nominated again in 2000, 2001 and 2004.

Writer and director Veronica Chen presented her feature film debut, Smokers Only, at Sundance in 2002. Now, the Argentinian filmmaker is back with her film High Tide – a film about female sexuality, class, and power.