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Picturestart and Ghetto Film School (Gfs) have announced the winners of their “Discover Your Voice” fellowship contest.

The winning projects come from filmmakers Zenzele Ojore (grand prize), Danni Juhl (first prize) and Jenna Anderson and Mags Chamberlain (second prize), who were rewarded with prize money totaling 21,000.

“Together with Ghetto Film School, we were inspired to establish this fellowship to discover, elevate and celebrate emerging voices that are shaping the future of filmmaking,” stated Picturestart founder and CEO Erik Feig and company president Samie Kim Falvey. “The experience itself was eye-opening to the caliber of storytelling these young filmmakers are creating and we are excited to acknowledge Zenzele, Danni, Jenna and Mags for their incredible work.”

Ojore’s “The South Is My Sister’s Skin” was awarded the 10,000 grand prize. Set in “the belly of the American South,” according to official logline, the film follows “two Black sisters from childhood to...

"She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" is promising to be a bold new step in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This isn't because the show is going to feature a galaxy-altering villain or a big cinematic battle, but rather, it's looking to be the opposite of many Marvel projects. From navigating the New York City dating scene to working on superhuman legal cases, "She-Hulk" looks to shine a light on the unseen, somewhat mundane events happening in-between "Avengers" team-ups.

Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) is your typical city lawyer in her mid-30s, trying to navigate her life in-between big cases. She also just so happens to be the cousin of the Incredible Hulk himself, Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo). After she accidentally comes into contact with her cousin's blood, Jennifer is now able to transform into a six-foot-four superhuman, appropriately dubbed She-Hulk. With the help of Bruce, she attempts to live as normal a...

Thor Odinson becomes the first MCU hero to headline four solo films with the arrival this week of “Thor: Love and Thunder.” But for critics, the “love” is in short supply.

That’s not to say the film isn’t enjoyable. Many early reviews point out that director and co-writer Taika Waititi’s humor remains as strong as it was in “Thor: Ragnarok.” But the struggle to see where this film fits in with the ongoing story of the MCU at large is hard to overlook.

As TheWrap’s own Alonso Duralde writes, “Love and Thunder” contains “many of the surface pleasures of an MCU movie but also a nagging sensation that none of this quite works.”

“Similar to ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ and ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ before it, ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ [is] an excellent example of Marvel still not being quite sure how to pick...

In May of 2012, deckhand Jake Anderson, until recently part of the crew of the crab-boat F/V Northwestern, featured on Discovery's Tuesday reality hit "Deadliest Catch," married sweetheart Jenna Patterson in a ceremony officiated by Northwestern Capt. Sig Hansen.

Ever since Anderson came on the Northwestern years ago as a fresh-faced greenhorn, he's looked up to Hansen as a mentor. After his own father's disappearance in 2010 -- Keith Anderson's remains were found in 2012 -- Hansen also became like a surrogate father to Anderson.

Early in 2013, Anderson left the Northwestern to pursue his ambition to be a crab-boat captain by working aboard the F/V Kiska Sea, owned by Aleutian Spray Fisheries. But that doesn't mean he's cut ties with his old skipper.

In the past, Anderson has been known to do chores around the Hansen home near Seattle, Wash., and not much has changed. Only now, instead of mowing lawns,...

Even in an industry used to wild weather and physical peril, this past opilio-crab season on Alaska's Bering Sea was one for the books. So says Johnathan Hillstrand, co-captain of the F/V Time Bandit, one of the crab-fishing fleet featured on "Deadliest Catch," airing a new season Tuesdays on Discovery.

"It's ugly," Hillstrand tells Zap2it. "There are a lot of injuries. It's just part of our job, but it looks pretty bad. They didn't have cameras on every boat, but the first two days of opie season, two guys lost their legs out there.

"I don't know if Discovery caught it on the Coast Guard end, but one of the boats that was on the show last year, the Kodiak, a guy got his leg crushed. We had ice and violent storms. Weather would come up, from southerly to northerly and back around to southerly, and the crab pots,...

Tonight (Tuesday, Aug. 7), Discovery Channel airs "Deadliest Catch: Behind the Scenes," the season 8 iteration of the annual special that shows what goes on behind the cameras capturing crab-fleet life on Alaska's Bering Sea.

Holding one of those cameras since the show's first season has been producer and cinematographer Todd Stanley (pictured above between Capt. Phil Harris, left, and his son, Josh Harris, right).

Asked what it takes to wield a camera aboard a crab boat in autumn and winter, Stanley says, "You gotta have a lot of grit. You have to have a lot of endurance. It's not easy spending long hours out there. ... It's not for everybody. The hours are long and grueling.

"I feel a lot of responsibility for the show. It's sort of my baby. I've been there since the beginning, before it was even called 'Deadliest Catch.' It's something that I take a lot of pride in.