New podcast series, Building Queertopia, will bring together members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community to envision a perfect queer utopia where everyone is welcome. Each week Chelcee Grimes and Shane Jenek (Courtney Act) will be joined by a special guest who will contribute their own ideals to create their imagined inclusive world. Chelcee and Shane will ask their guest to bring one big and bold idea that would drastically improve their lives and the lives of fellow queer-topians based on their real-life experiences. No topic is off limits, as the podcast provides a space for guests to explore everything…
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Second guest of honor of this 74th edition after Jodie Foster attending the Opening Ceremony, Italian director Marco Bellocchio will present his new feature film in the Cannes Premiere section, on Friday, July 16th, after having met the audience the previous evening at the “Rendez-vous with…” And during the Closing Ceremony on Saturday, July 17 2021, the Festival will present him with an Honorary Palme d’or, a tribute to his unique œuvre that has marked contemporary cinema with force and freedom. It is a profoundly moving and painful personal documentary that Marco Bellocchio will present in the Official Selection in Cannes. Through this film…
Manchester Metropolitan University fashion student Jasmin Bourne has scooped the top catwalk prize at this year’s Graduate Fashion Week, an annual showcase of the country’s best and brightest young design talent. Bourne, a BA Fashion student at Manchester Fashion Institute at Manchester Metropolitan, wowed judges with a collection inspired by her own British and Fijian heritage to take home the Christopher Bailey Collection of the Year Award. The award is a stunning achievement for Bourne and the Fashion Institute, as it rewards the most outstanding graduate catwalk collection presented at Graduate Fashion Week 2021, selected from over 3500 of the country’s leading young…
Co-creator and lead actor in Netflix comedy-drama Feel Good, Mae Martin, sits down with Eve to examine how cathartic it is if you do choose to share your personal life with the public. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcFgXE_YpC8&t=42s The Canadian performer started in comedy aged thirteen, and they share how freeing it was to be focused on a path from so young: Mae: “I started seeing live comedy really young, it was all the local Toronto comedians… I was at comedy clubs four or five nights a week from the time I was like thirteen, I don’t know why my parents let me do…
The release of award-winning Hungarian writer/director Szabolcs Hajdu’s immersive nocturnal drama ’Treasure City’ was released on 18th June in Virtual Cinemas and Premium VOD. A subtle mix of nocturnal urban tales exploring the darker side of human relations, the film drops the viewer into a web of family, sexual, political and romantic relationships where nothing’s quite what it seems. A disagreement in a florists’ spirals badly out of control; a family dinner deteriorates into acrimony; an anti-facist demo raises tensions; a visit to an empty bar leads to an unexpected encounter – one event connects to another, people appear in…
Tickets have gone on sale for Theatre Royal’s inaugural Summer Season opening with Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Starring Britain’s favorite actor – Ian McKellen – in an age-blind interpretation of the young Prince with integrated casting, opens at the Theatre Royal Windsor on 21 June 2021. Produced by Bill Kenwright, Hamlet heralds Sean Mathias’ inaugural season at Theatre Royal Windsor and will be followed by Martin Sherman’s adaptation of Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard, with McKellen as Firs the elderly manservant. The production actually went into rehearsal ten months ago but could not proceed when new restrictions were put in place due…
After many long months in which almost all of the world’s theater screens were empty, we are delighted to see the progressive reopening of theaters in France and abroad. The 2021 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, one of the first global movie industry events to be held post-pandemic, will pave the way for this newfound freedom. It is already shaping up to be a great year for French productions, with a large slate of Gallic titles to be showcased in the presence of big names as well as emerging and promising talent. With the aim of strengthening the impact…
Today, the LTA launch ‘U IN? 🎾’, a rallying call-to-arms to people of all ages, sizes, cultures, and skills, to get outside and play tennis. After a year where more people have picked up tennis rackets than ever before, the LTA aims to trigger a nationwide chain reaction, inspiring the public to take up tennis wherever they can, by seeing the entire world as their court. The LTA experienced a 327% increase in court bookings at the start of last summer compared to previous years, with demand continuing to grow in 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sieTlmVsfto&ab_channel=LTA The arrival of summer sparks a…
Underbelly Festival Announces Next String of Acts to Join Stellar 2021 Line Up Underbelly Festival returns with a bang for summer 2021 in a brand-new location in Cavendish Square in the heart of Central London with more acts joining an already stellar season brimming with the very best comedy, cabaret, variety, music, family shows and live podcasts – a sure sign that live entertainment is back, and the capital once again open for summer fun. Joining headline show Bernie Dieter’s Berlin Underground in The Spiegeltent are comedy superstar and everybody’s favourite Welshman Rhod Gilbert, stand-up legend Marcus Brigstocke, beatboxing and loop station legend Beardyman: Face…
In 2021 and given the urgency of the situation, protecting the environment is at the heart of the Festival de Cannes‘ preoccupations, reflected up to its Official Selection. The Selection was already bearing that mark, when in 2007, Al Gore was invited for his documentary An Inconvenient Truth that brought him an Oscar and to numerous other films, including those produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. While the Festival has taken a series of measures, the ecology of hope will also feature on the screens of the Croisette. As a way of embodying this commitment, the 74th edition of the Festival de Cannes has chosen an…