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Thandiwe Newton broke into tears while addressing colorism in the film industry. The 49-year-old actress recently spoke to the Associated Press about her film "God's Country," which sees her play a grieving woman who confronts a pair of hunters on her property. Newton has received a fair amount of praise for her role, which examines, among other things, her race.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThandiwe Newton wants to know why the BFI London Film Festival did not accept “President,” the award-winning documentary she produced about the 2018 Zimbabwe presidential election.The Camilla Nielsson-directed film chronicles young presidential hopeful Nelson Chamisa’s unsuccessful bid to unseat Pres. Emmerson Mnangagwa, the country’s former vice president who staged a military coup that ousted decades-long dictator Robert Mugabe.

The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival has confirmed its various juries, including who will be joining M. Night Shyamalan to award the International Competition prizes.

K.J. Yossman The BBC’s Storyville strand, which sets out to showcase the world’s best international documentaries, has picked up a new slate of eight films.They will be screened on BBC Four and iPlayer over eight weeks starting Jan.

The Africa Channel Studios has launched development on an untitled drama series exploring the true story of legendary African rock band Wells Fargo. David Straiton (House, M.D., Narcos) and Nora Lonergan (MacGyver) will produce, with writer and musician Daisy Martey penning the pilot. Narendra Reddy and Brendan Gabriel are set to executive produce for The Africa Channel Studios.

Countries have tightened up travel restrictions in an effort to curb the spread of the Omicron variant.

The United States, the European Union and the UK are putting travel restrictions in place for visitors from southern Africa upon the discovery of a new COVID variant, being called Omicron, via BBC.

Naman Ramachandran Boasting a culturally diverse background encompassing Zimbabwe and Spain, Lou Llobell had a peripatetic childhood that took in both of those countries and South Africa before she moved to the U.K. After drama school, pausing only to serve as Tessa Thompson’s stand-in in “Men in Black: International” (2019), Llobell acted in sci-fi film “Voyagers” (2021) before landing the central role of Gaal Dornick in showrunner David S.

Nicola Sturgeon has said Scots should not be "pressing the panic button" over growing concerns about a new variant of covid discovered in southern Africa.

The U.K. added six African countries to its travel quarantine list on Thursday after a new, potentially more-transmissible variant of Covid-19 was identified there. Those countries are: South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini, according to the BBC.

Before and after: The LGBTIQ billboard was vandalised just days after it was erected in Zimbabwe 

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EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has picked up North American distribution rights to President, directed by Camilla Nielsson (Democrats).

K.J. Yossman Pioneering British filmmaker Menelik Shabazz, who was a stalwart of contemporary British cinema for over three decades, has died.

Menelik Shabazz, the impactful British filmmaker, has died at the age of 67. The news has been widely circulated on social media, with numerous people who worked closely with the director confirming his passing and adding tributes today.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorActor and activist Thandiwe Newton, who was named to the Queen’s New Year’s Honors List, receiving an OBE for services to film and charity, has joined documentary “President” as executive producer. The film won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival this year and will screen at AFI Docs on Thursday.The film captures Zimbabwe at a crossroads.

BERLIN -- Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga has been awarded a prestigious German prize for a body of work that has made her a prominent African literary voice.Dangarembga, 62, was announced on Monday as this year's winner of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, which is endowed with 25,000 euros ($29,700) and has been awarded since 1950. Dangarembga will receive it in Frankfurt on Oct.

Disney EMEA Animation Studio this morning unveiled a group of new and returning animated kids projects out of Europe and Africa. Among the new titles is Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, a 10-part sci-fi anthology executive produced by Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse co-director Peter Ramsey.

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Thandiwe Newton is reclaiming her name. The 48-year-old actress covers the May issue of , and reveals that the long-credited spelling of her name as «Thandie» is incorrect.The misspelling goes back to her first onscreen credit when the «W» in her name was «carelessly missed out,» the outlet reports.From now on, though, Newton will insist on the «W» being included in her name, which means «beloved» in Shona, the language in Zimbabwe, where her mom's a princess.«That’s my name.

, and no, that's not a typo. The Westworld star is reclaiming the correct spelling of her name, 30 years after it was first misprinted in the credits of her debut role.

Thandiwe Newton covers the latest issue of British Vogue, and no, that’s not a typo.

Emilio Mayorga Sébastien Onomo, producer of 2018 Annecy Crystal winner “Funan,” has teamed with Romanian animator Anca Damian to co-produce her new project “Starseed.” Damian’s first feature, “Crulic,” similarly topped Annecy, in 2011.

Chelsy Davy is coping with the latest lockdown by soaking up some winter sun in Mauritius.

The 2018 presidential elections in Zimbabwe, fought between former vice president Emmerson “the crocodile” Mnangagwa and the bright young opposition candidate Nelson Chamisa, were a dismal affair rife with election fraud, if you follow the persuasive arguments mounted by documaker Camilla Nielsson in President.

The virtual map on the website of the International Medical Corps shows where the emergency relief agency has provided aid since its founding in 1984: Zimbabwe, Yemen, Syria and Venezuela — to name but a few. Now, IMC, which counts J.J.

Guy Lodge Film Critic“Democrats,” Camilla Nielsson’s superb 2014 documentary about the tortuous construction of Zimbabwe’s 2013 constitution, was most riveting as a snapshot of a country still trying democracy on for size, wary of what it saw in the mirror.

LONDON, UK – Pioneering AIDS researcher and clinician Joseph Sonnabend, 88, died January 24, 2021 at London’s famed Wellington Hospital after suffering a heart attack on January 3, 2021.