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Since 1992, the TV academy has honored the work of voice actors almost annually, beginning with half a dozen cast members from “The Simpsons.” From 2014 onward, the Best Voice-Over Performance award has been bestowed separately from the Best Narrator one, with the inaugural recipient of the former prize having been Harry Shearer of “The Simpsons.” This year’s lineup features seven nominees, including one former winner and two posthumous contenders.

Maya Rudolph, who took this award in 2020 and 2021 for “Big Mouth,” is now seeking her third win for the same show. She is involved in her second consecutive rematches with Julie Andrews (“Bridgerton”), Stanley Tucci (“Central Park”) and Jessica Walter (“Archer”), the last of whom is on her second post-death bid in a row. The remaining three slots are filled by category newcomers F. Murray Abraham (“Moon Knight”) and “What If…?” duo Chadwick Boseman (who died in August 2020) and Jeffrey Wright.

Documentary explores the fight for female emancipation in the Middle East.

Prague-based sales agent Filmotor has boarded Samaher Alqadi’s feature documentary debut As I Want, which is set to play in competition at Cph:dox next week.

The film premiered in the Encounters section of the Berlinale last month and will receive its international debut in the F:act Competition of Copenhagen’s Cph:dox on April 22.

The documentary begins in 2013, during the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution. Palestinian filmmaker Alqadi picked up her camera as a weapon against the explosion of sexual violence that was occurring on Cairo’s Tahrir...

Perhaps fittingly, Amir Amirani’s new documentary We Are Many characterises not only the notion of mass public protest, but the rise of the political documentary itself. In it, we travel back to 9/11, what many commentators have since referred to as The End of History regarding national security and privacy, which gave birth to a protest movement that has manifested itself in countless ways over the last thirteen years. Equally so it has given thousands of hours’ worth of material for filmmakers and activists to reach a bulk audience with.

The attacks on the Twin Towers were a prelude to the Iraq War, the main focus of Amirani’s film, and he invites academics (including perpetual talking head Noam Chomsky), as well as politicians from Clare Short to David Blunkett, to speak about the social, political and moral implications of the 2003 global protest against the decision to invade. It’s...

It's out on DVD, VOD and digital download, so check it out if you haven't. I recommend it! I mention it, not necessarily to pit both films against each other, but given all the buzz around Jehane Noujaim's The Square, including its Oscar nomination this year, I thought I'd toss 1/2 Revolution into the "Egyptian Revolution documentary" pot, since, for one reason or another, it didn't receive anywhere near the same kind of attention (press, awards, etc) as The Square has, and is just as good a documentary on the subject matter, and deserves to be seen. A Sundance Film Festival 2012 selection, 1/2 Revolution (directed by Omar Shargawi and Karim El Hakim) is...

The maiden edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival will be held from 1st – 4th November.The film festival is an initiative of the Dharanshala based filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam.

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam run an independent film company and produce films mainly focusing on the subject of Tibet. Some of their films include, The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom, The Thread of Karma, Dreaming Lhasa and Big Treasure Chest for Future Kids.

12 films to be screened at the festival are announced so far, more will be coming soon. Those lined-up are:

Miss Lovely

India. Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia. Two brothers, Vicky and Sonu Duggal, produce forbidden sex-horror films for India’s small-town picture houses in mid-1980s Bombay. Vicky is struggling to run the tabooed operation, while Sonu desires to produce a romantic film which he would call ‘Miss Lovely’.

The film...

Kirsten Dunst in Lars von Trier's apocalyptic drama Melancholia The Danish Film Critics Association's Bodil Pris winners will be announced on March 3. Danske film / Best Danish Film En familie / A Family, Pernille Fischer Christensen SuperClásico, Ole Christian Madsen Frit fald / Rebounce, Heidi Maria Faisst Melancholia, Lars von Trier Dirch / A Funny Man, Martin P. Zandvliet Amerikanske film / Best American Film Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn Winter's Bone, Debra Granik Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky True Grit, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick Ikke-amerikanske film / Best Non-American Foreign Film Another Year, Mike Leigh Nader og Simin – en separation / A Separation, Asghar Farhadi Om guder og mænd / Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois Oslo, 31. august, Joachim Trier Kongens store tale / The King's Speech, Tom Hooper Dokumentarfilm / Best Documentary Testamentet, Christian Sønderby Ambassadøren, Mads Brügger Svend, Anne Regitze Wivel ½ Revolution, Karim El Hakim and Omar Shargawi Præsidenten, Christoffer Guldbrandsen Mandlig...

Hellion

Today's the day Sundance 2012 opens and Salon's Andrew O'Hehir pretty well sums up why those who've written the festival off completely might want to reconsider:

If Robert Redford's annual celebration of independent film is no longer the cutting-edge cultural phenomenon it appeared to be in the 1990s, it also isn't the wretched-excess Sundance of the early 2000s, when the overly precious downtown of Park City, Utah, was bedecked with 'gifting lounges' that attracted all kinds of entertainment and sports celebrities who had no plausible connection to the independent-film business. Current festival director John Cooper took the reins from longtime director Geoff Gilmore (a charismatic and polarizing figure) two and a half years ago, just as the national economy was going south. Whether by coincidence, strategy or an inevitable consequence of structural change, Cooper's first two festivals have felt leaner and more focused on actual films and filmmakers — and...

[Premiere Screening: Friday, January 20 9:00 am –Egyptian Theatre, Park City]

Co-director Karim El Hakim:

The challenge of capturing the spontaneity of life in all its hidden moments and glancing magic is why I am a filmmaker. What turns me on is exploring the time and space around me, following the individual threads of emotional energy in each of the characters I become invested in. The more intense and stressful a situation is, the more emotional the characters become. How will these emotional strings play out? How will they intertwine and conflict? How do they reflect the situation? What will be the outcome? I feel like a kid in a candy store just thinking about it ;)

1/2 Revolution is a completely accidental film. When the Egyptian Revolution sparked, we had a knee-jerk reaction to the massive protests erupting around us and we knew we had to film it -for history’s sake at the very least. Of course we were also living the situation,...

Trailer roundups can grow to be rather unwieldy and slow to load, so I'm rounding up trailers for films screening at this year's Sundance Film Festival in two batches, the competitions and all the other programs.

Us Dramatic Competition

Ira Sachs's Keep the Lights On

Ava DuVernay's Middle of Nowhere

Youssef Delara and Michael D Olmos's Filly Brown

Us Documentary Competition

Alison Klayman's Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Kirby Dick's The Invisible War

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's Detropia

Sam Pollard's Slavery by Another Name

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

The trailer for Keiichi Kobayashi's About the Pink Sky is here.

Luciano Moura's Father's Chair (A Cadeira do Pai)

Babis Makridis's L

Armando Bó's The Last Elvis (El Ultimo Elvis)

David Trueba's Madrid, 1987

Andrés Wood's Violeta Went to Heaven

Kieran Darcy-Smith's Wish You Were Here

And the trailer for...

Omar Shargawi was raised by a Danish mother and Palestinian father in Copenhagen. His first directorial feature, "Go in Peace, Jamil" (2008), won several film fest awards (at Rotterdam, Gothenburg, Warsaw). Shargawi's 2010 "My Father from Haifa" (2010), a personal documentary, won the Muhr Arab Documentary Special Jury Prize and the people’s choice award at Dubai, and the Film Academy of Denmark’s Robert award. Karim El Hakim, an Egyptian American director and director of photography, has contributed to several award-winning docs, including "My Trip to Al Qaeda" (2010), "Giran (Neighbors)" (2009), and "Egypt We Are Watching You" (2008). Based in Cairo, his short films include "Ein Semeka (Fisheye)," "Miraculum," and "Beit Min Lahm (House of Flesh)," which won the Egyptian State Prize for best cinematography in 2006. Of being an documentarian and cinematographer, El Hakim says;...