All Features articles – Page 152
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: Gamechanger Films’ Effie Brown - “I miss hugging people”
The CEO of Gamechanger Films talks about managing a new team from home and why she picked up her sewing machine when the pandemic hit.
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FeaturesThe Centrepiece interview: Universal’s Donna Langley talks PVoD alliances, remounting ‘Jurassic World 3’ and the studio’s 2021 plans
The chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group reflects on a tumultuous 2020.
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FeaturesWhy 2021 could be a good year for UK distributors and the filmmakers they support
Evidence the sector is well-positioned to thrive in a post-pandemic, SVoD-driven market.
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2020: Fionnuala Halligan
Fionnuala Halligan is Screen’s chief film critic and reviews editor. Read our other critics’ top tens here.
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2020: Tim Grierson
Screen’s senior US critic, LA-based Grierson has written for the publication since 2005. Read our other critics’ top tens here.
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2020: Allan Hunter
Hunter has worked for Screen since 1990. He is based in Edinburgh and is co-director of Glasgow Film Festival. Read our other critics’ top tens here.
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2020: Wendy Ide
Ide joined Screen in 2015 as a UK-based critic, and also writes for The Observer and Sight & Sound. Read our other critics’ top tens here.
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2020: Jonathan Romney
A longtime contributor, Romney also writes for Film Comment, Sight & Sound and The Observer, and teaches at NFTS. Read our other critics’ top tens here.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2020: Mehdi Ramdani, actor (Algeria)
Ramdani is the co-lead in historical drama Héliopolis, which is Algeria’s submission to the Oscars.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2020: Sameh Alaa director (Egypt)
Egypt’s Sameh Alaa made history this year as the only filmmaker to clinch a Palme d’Or at Cannes.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2020: Tara Abboud, actress (Palestine-Jordan)
Next year Abboud will star in Egyptian director Mohamed Diab’s drama Amira.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2020: Hana Al Omair, director (Saudi Arabia)
Hana Al Omair’s thriller Whispers became one of Saudi Arabia’s first TV dramas to launch on Netflix.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2020: Stephanie Atala, actress (Lebanon)
Actress and singer Atala is soon to hit international screens in Hassiba Freiha and Kenton Oxley’s upcoming English- and Arabic-language psychological thriller Farah.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2020: Brice Bexter El Glaoui, actor (Morocco)
Bexter will hit the big and small screen in the US this January in Hicham Hajji’s action thriller Redemption Day.
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FeaturesKuek Yu-Chuang on Chinese streamer iQiyi’s international expansion plans
Initial strategy focuses on Chinese, Korean and “hyper local” content.
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Features“I was very nervous”: How Tallinn staged a hybrid festival amid Estonia’s second wave
“Every day when I woke up, I’m asking whether we have to cancel the festival or move it online.”
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FeaturesViesturs Kairish talks about love, language and humour in ‘The Sign Painter’
“It was a political and aesthetic choice to shoot in Lagalian Latvian.”
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FeaturesMika Kaurismäki on why he hit the bar in lockdown with ‘Gracious Night’
A planned shoot in Dubai became a lockdown film in the bar the Finnish director owns in Helsinki.
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FeaturesHow the UK’s Rise Films is balancing a slate of documentaries with feature comedies
Rise’s ‘Mayor’ has screened at IDFA and is about to open theatrically in the US.
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FeaturesVitaly Mansky says he wanted to show the human side of a Soviet leader in ‘Gorbachev. Heaven’
’Gorbachev. Heaven’ has played in competition at IDFA this month.
