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Updated, 12:23 Pm: South by Southwest Conference and Festivals today announced the Audience Award winners for the 29th SXSW Film Festival, with the Patton Oswalt comedy I Love My Dad, FX’s comedy series Atlanta, Sony Pictures Classics’ music doc The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile and AMC’s drama series 61st Street coming in as notable recipients.

I Love My Dad was previously awarded the Narrative Feature Competition Grand Jury Award, and today took home the Narrative Feature Competition Audience Award. Atlanta won out in the Headliners section, with The Return of Tanya Tucker prevailing in 24 Beats Per Second, and 61st Street taking the Audience Award for Episodic Premieres.

The SXSW Audience Awards follow the previously-announced 2022 Jury Awards, as well as the 40 Years of Massive Talent Award, which was presented to Nicolas Cage at the festival screening of his Lionsgate pic The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent on Saturday night.

Tribeca and Chanel have set participants, masterclass advisors, mentors and jurors for their seventh annual Through Her Lens program, supporting women filmmakers, announcing that it will take place from October 12-14.

The creatives and short film projects chosen for the three-day mentorship program, designed to provide industry support, artistic development and funding to “emerging U.S. based self-identifying women and non-binary writers and directors,” include director Annalise Lockhart and writer/producer Mary Glen Fredrick (Anything Valuable), writer/director Maya Tanaka and producer Shuchi Talati (Honolulu), director Caroline Lindy and writer/producer Kate Hamilton (How Did I Get Here), writer/director Tiye Amenechi and producer Satchel Lee (Night Bloom), and writer/director Phumi Morare (Why the Cattle Wait).

Each will benefit from a combination if virtual and in-person, one-on-one mentorship—along with masterclasses focused on script-to-screen development, music composition, costume design, producing, and directing—working with mentors to shape and refine their pitches and projects.

The seventh annual Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program kicks off today with a hybrid edition featuring both virtual and in-person events.

The three-day event allows program finalists working on five films to participate in one-on-one mentorship and masterclasses focused on script-to-screen development, music composition, costume design, producing and directing.

The Leadership Committee includes Amy Schumer, Gayle King, Marlee Matlin, Paula Weinstein, Ali Adler, Melissa Barrera, Kay Cannon, Jacqueline Durran, Misha Green, Soo Hugh, Zoe Lister-Jones, Laura Karpman, Leslie Mann, Tina Mabry, Adepero Oduye, Frida Torresblanco, DeWanda Wise and Maria Zuckerman.

Program finalists include Annalise Lockhart and Mary Glen Fredrick (“Anything Valuable”), Maya Tanaka and Shuchi Talati (“Honolulu”), Caroline Lindy and Kate Hamilton (“How Did I Get Here”), Tiye Amenechi and Satchel Lee (“Night Bloom”) and Phumi Morare (‘Why the Cattle Wait”).

One team will receive full financing to produce their short film with support from Tribeca Studios.

Hey, "NCIS" fans. We are back with a new set of spoiler scoops for the upcoming episode 8 of this current 17th season. Thanks to the wonderful folks over at CBS, we do have an official press release for episode 8. It features a main storyline description. So, that's what we'll be running by you guys in this spoiler session. We've also got a couple of preview photos to go over with you. We'll give you a link to them as well. With that said, let's do this. To start, episode 8 is officially labeled/titled, "Musical Chairs." The new episode 8 sounds like it will feature some more very interesting, possible intense and dramatic scenes. In the new episode 8, the murder of a musician will take place at some point. This musician was in the Navy's most elite band which serves up performances at diplomatic events from all around the world. In light of this tragic crime,...

Loreen Arbus, producer, writer, author, and disability rights activist, will be honored with this year’s Disability Rights Advocates’ Eagle Award in recognition of her outstanding advocacy and commitment to the inclusion and integration of people with disabilities.

Loreen Arbus will be Honored with the Eagle Award

The award will be presented at the Disability Rights Advocates’ annual Gala on Monday, October 21st, at the American Museum of Natural History. On the following night, Tuesday, October 22nd, Ms. Arbus will return as a Gala Co-Chair of the Women’s Media Center’s 2019 Women’s Media Awards at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City.

Disability Rights Advocates (Dra), founded in 1993, is the leading national nonprofit disability rights legal center. Its mission is to advance equal rights and opportunity for people with all types of disabilities nationwide. Dra represents people with the full spectrum of disabilities in complex, system-changing, class action cases.

Hey, NCIS fans. We hope you guys enjoyed tonight's episode 18. Now that it has officially aired, it is time to see what's coming up in the next, new episode 19 that's due to air next Tuesday night,April 9, 2019. CBS recently released their press release for episode 19. It gives a brief teaser description. So, we'll be taking a look at that for this spoiler session. With that said, let's go ahead and jump right into this thing. To get things started,the CBS press release revealed that the producers decided to name or title episode 19, "Perennial." I must say, that is a pretty unique title. It sounds like episode 19 will feature some pretty heavy drama coupled with a interesting twist as someone from Sloane's past shows up. The NCIS crew tries to hunt down a shooter, and more! We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the NCIS shooter hunt-down situation.