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Stories that span genres, languages and filmmaking techniques are among the contenders for a nomination for best Oscars short this year.

Director Victoria Warmerdam‘s I’m Not a Robot opens with a familiar experience of a person attempting to successfully respond to a captcha prompt in order to access a website. However, after multiple failed tries, the woman, named Lara, discovers that she is indeed a bot.

“At first it’s such a funny thought, like, ‘What if I’m actually a robot and I find out through a captcha,’ but when I really started writing the script and thinking about it, it’s about the patriarchy and feminism and what if you’re not, in a way, in control of your own body,” Warmerdam said during a taping of THR Presents, powered by Vision Media. “I think that’s, especially now, unfortunately, still such an important topic to talk about.

Updated on Wednesday, November 6 to include newly announced audience winners.

As its annual film festival winds down this weekend, the Savannah College of Art and Design (Scad) announced the award winners for the 27th annual Scad Savannah Film Festival. The event, which has become a key stop on the busy regional festival circuit leading up to the Academy Awards, this year screened 162 films, including 123 narrative feature films, 31 documentary feature films, 69 short films, and 10 world premieres and six U.S. premieres.

Out of over 2,335 submissions, nineteen awards were announced from the 105 films chosen to compete in competition categories, which included Narrative Features, Documentary Features, Professional Shorts, Animated Shorts, Documentary Shorts, Student Shorts, Shorts Spotlight, Global Shorts Forum, and the Savff Lgbtqia+ Short Film Competition presented by Amazon MGM Studios.

Taking top honors in the competition feature section include a pair of remarkable films still looking for distribution, including Michael Schwartz and...

“Gladiator” fans will get an inside look at the making of Ridley Scott’s epic sequel courtesy of a behind-the-scenes special, airing Nov. 18 on CBS (at 10:30 p.m. Et/Pt) and streaming on Paramount +.

The special, titled “The Making of Gladiator II” and produced by Paramount Pictures, is said to offer “unprecedented access encompassing all aspects of production, from the grand scope of the set — including reconstructing Ancient Rome — to characters, combat training, costumes, historical accuracy, scoring and more.”

The Paramount movie, starring Paul Mescal, continues the saga of power, intrigue and vengeance set off in the 2001 Oscar best picture-winner “Gladiator.”

“Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist,” reads the film’s logline. “With...

Sony Pictures Classics’ Dylan Leiner along with FilmNation’s Stefan Zorich and Paramount’s Fabrizio Carrer were among the top film executives and companies who participated in the 13th NY Film & Entertainment Soccer Tournament for charity hosted at the Tribeca Festival.

The sun-drenched event gathered 39 teams, along with more than 60 filmmakers from the Tribeca Festival, and hundreds of spectators at Brooklyn Bridge Park overlooking downtown Manhattan.

The annual 5 v 5 charity soccer tournament, co-organized by Leiner and Jeffrey Saunders, will donate funds to the two organizations reigning atop the Soccer-4-Good Division, the big winner being Upwardly Global – which helps immigrants and refugees get back to work in their chosen fields; and Grassroot soccer, an organization that leverages the power of soccer to equip young people with life-saving information, services and mentorship.

Some of the high-profile talent in attendance included Phil Dunster (“Ted Lasso”) who presented his short film “Idiomatic” at...