Jordan Moreau The International Documentary Association announced the 17 feature-length and 25 short documentaries included on the shortlists for the 39th IDA Documentary Awards, which will be held during the week of Dec. 11in Los Angeles.
06.10.2023 - 13:49 / variety.com
Ellise Shafer The first time Katia deVidas filmed Peter Doherty was in November 2006, at a Babyshambles concert in Paris. Over the next decade, deVidas would record more than 200 hours of footage of the musician — who ushered in a new era of British rock in the early 2000s as the co-frontman of the Libertines — capturing him at his best amid floods of creativity, but also at his worst as he tumbled further into drug addiction. As the two grew closer, forging a friendship that would eventually turn into love, deVidas realized she had an incredible story to tell.
That footage became “Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin,” a raw and brutally honest portrait of an artist and addict, which premieres Friday night at the Zurich Film Festival. “I knew that Peter had a life that was really out of the ordinary. It was a very intense, discombobulated world — so rich, so interesting.
And so that’s what I was going to try and capture,” deVidas tells Variety over video chat from her and Doherty’s home in France. Now married, the two affectionally call each other “boo-boo” and take turns holding their newborn daughter, Billie-May, throughout the interview. This kind of stability is new for Doherty, whose various run-ins with the law for drug-related offenses and relationship with Kate Moss at the height of the Libertines’ fame caused him to became a subject of media frenzy in the U.K.
Jordan Moreau The International Documentary Association announced the 17 feature-length and 25 short documentaries included on the shortlists for the 39th IDA Documentary Awards, which will be held during the week of Dec. 11in Los Angeles.
Enter Shikari have called for solidarity and progress in securing the future of the UK’s grassroots music venues – urging fans and gig spaces to “show the Tory government and the landlord c**ts that our culture of live music is not for sale”.The band were speaking at last week’s Venues Day held by the Music Venue Trust in London, where they received the Outstanding Contribution Award for donating £1 from every ticket sold on their upcoming UK and Ireland arena tour back to the cause of saving grassroots gig spaces.The news came as it was revealed that the UK is set to lose 10 per cent of its grassroots music venues in 2023 – with calls growing for the “major leagues” of the music industry and larger venues to do more to pay into the ecosystem and save them.Giving the opening speech at Venues Day last week, drummer Rob Rolfe explained how Enter Shikari were “no strangers to grassroots music venues” and were even playing a key role in restoring The Pioneer Club in their hometown of St Albans.“Grassroots venues helped us cut our teeth, hone our craft, meet and be inspired by other musicians, and how to be a proper touring band,” said Rolfe. “It was also the platform to help us reach an audience and build our own fanbase.“It is guaranteed that we would not be where we are today in our career, without grassroots venues – which is why it was a no-brainer for £1 of each ticket from our biggest shows to go to support small venues.
Christopher Vourlias Amazon Prime Video and German broadcaster ARD have acquired the distribution rights to “The Morning After,” an eight-part dramedy series starring rising British actress Amara Okereke (“In the Lost Lands,” “Red Rose”), with principal photography now underway in Cape Town. Created by Thierry Cassuto and Karen Jeynes (“Recipes for Love and Murder,” “Puppet Nation”) and set in Cape Town, the show stars Okereke as a young, aspiring singer from the U.K.
Luc Bernard Can video games tell stories about the Holocaust?Can this medium encourage the audience to relate and care more? I absolutely believe so. That’s why I self-funded, directed and released the Holocaust videogame “The Light in the Darkness,” which is currently available on PS5, PS4 and PC. One of my core issues with education on the Holocaust is that those murdered are treated as numbers, not human beings.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor SAG-AFTRA may still be on strike, but studios are, nevertheless, pushing their Oscar contenders to garner the adequate (and allowed) attention they need to land nominations. One of the main methods is getting industry voters out to screenings and making films available on the Academy Screening Room and BAFTA screening platforms.
Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver will be treading the boards and not the cobbles next year as she's bagged a new role away from the ITV soap. The actress is famed for playing Eileen Grimshaw in the long-running show.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's decision to forge a career away from the Royal Family continues after several of their projects, including their deal with Spotify, fell through. While the couple often appear as spokespeople for causes they are passionate about, there is another career path open to Meghan that is rumoured to be a real possibility for the former actress. A move into US politics has seen Meghan be billed as "an interesting candidate", as she has never been one to shy away from expressing her opinion - whether it was on the controversial Roe V Wade ruling or making her opposition to former US President Donald Trump clear.
Married at First Sight UK is set to air some explosive scenes on Thursday's episode following a chaotic first dinner party for the latest arrivals.
Emmerdale's Super Soap Week continued on Tuesday (October 10) with a nailbiting stunt that kept fans of the programme on tenterhooks. The ITV soap showed Chloe Harris driving a car with Mackenzie Boyd and Charity Dingle in the backseat.
Barbra Streisand was determined to get Robert Redford to star opposite her in The Way We Were, as detailed in her upcoming memoir, My Name Is Barbra, out on Nov. 7.
Drake has something to say about all the criticism surrounding his friendship with Millie Bobby Brown!
Sean Penn, Matthew Fox, and Kick Gurry are heading to Mipcom Cannes to talk about their satirical comedy series C*A*U*G*H*T.
Jaden Thompson NBC has announced that Chloe Troast is joining the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” the only new comedian rounding out the show’s talent lineup for the coming year. Troast will make her “SNL” debut on Oct. 14, when the show’s 49th season premieres.
As the quarterback for the New York Giants, Daniel Jones is one of the top-paid players in the NFL this year.
When TOWIE star Gemma Collins met the King Charles and Queen Camilla back in June, it looked like the start of a budding - and unlikely - friendship. Now, in an exclusive interview with, the 42-year-old revealed how much she "loves them" and their work they do to help animals. "Charles and Camilla invited me to the Animal Ball, and I just thought it was amazing," Gemma said.
EXCLUSIVE: Producer Miranda Bailey, known for movies such as Swiss Army Man, Don’t Think Twice and The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, says that multiple studios and streamers shied away from acquiring her completed drama series Unconventional due to its queer themes.
writers strike is over, Hollywood studios are gearing up to get production rolling again — once the other half of this year’s dual strike, the ongoing SAG-AFTRA walkout, is finally settled. From “Star Trek” to “Superman: Legacy” to “Abbott Elementary” to “Wednesday,” every studio, network and streamer has priority film and TV projects that they hope to fast-track back into development or production. Audiences cannot survive on reruns alone.
, stepping out in Paris in a sheer black dress for a Fashion Week moment with Kate Moss. paired her off-the-shoulder knit dress with a black clutch, black sunglasses and black heels, while Moss () wore stockings and a black satin skirt suit over a white top. She, too, wore opaque sunglasses.
Scout Willis and Tallulah Willis are praising their stepmom for her “bravery.”
Jordan Moreau Lil Yachty’s latest album, “Let’s Start Here,” did just that: It gave the rapper’s career a new starting point by setting aside his hip-hop origins and rebooting into psychedelic rock. Yachty 2.0 stopped by Central Park’s SummerStage and showed off his new sound, while also giving original fans a healthy dose of his classic bangers. This year marked a massive shift for Yachty.