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Top Brazilian titles at the Berlin Festival and EFM:

“Betânia,” (Marcelo Botta)

Botta’s feature debut, produced by Salvatore Filmes, associate produced by Ventre Studio, selected for Berlin’s Panorama. Set in stunning but barren Brazilian sand dunes, Betânia, 65, rebuilds amid global collapse. After losing her husband to a salty diet common in electricity-deprived areas, she seeks solace in a new village, cherishing its traditions. Sales: MPM Premium

“The Best Friend,” (Allan Deberton)

By Deberton, director of award-winning “Pacarrete,” co-produced by Ceara-based Deberton Filmes and Telecine. During a quiet beach trip to Canoa Quebrada, Lucas reunites with his old college friend Felipe, whose free-spirited nature sparks feelings of nostalgia. Sales: Deberton Filmes

“Carnival is Over,” (Fernando Coimbra)

A much awaited title from helmer-scribe, now in post. Winner of a Sundance Institute global filmmaking award, the thriller centers on Regina and Valerio who live an opulent lifestyle in Rio as heirs...

In the eerie world of Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, players are faced with a crucial decision that will shape the fate of the protagonist Red Mac Raith, and his loved one Antea Duarte—choosing between the Ascension Oath and the Resurrection Oath. It’s a choice that goes beyond mere gameplay mechanics; it’s a narrative fork in the road that influences the entire journey through the haunted landscapes of New Eden.

The duo forms a couple of Banishers, serving to protect the living from lingering ghosts. However, after an unfortunate series of events, Antea becomes what she swore to destroy. The player, as Red, must make a pivotal decision and swear an oath to Antea, sealing her fate while affecting the way the plot unravels.

Should You Pick the Ascension Oath or the Revelation Oath in Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden?

Choices matter in Banishers: Ghosts of New...

With its revised February release date fast approaching, Focus Entertainment and developer Don’T Nod have released a new gameplay trailer entitled “Love, Death, and Sacrifice” for Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. As the title suggests, the new trailer explores the depth of the game’s two protagonists and their relationship.

In Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, you play as a pair of ghost hunters, Antea Duarte and Red Mac Raith, who have been sent to New Eden to lift a mysterious curse and solve haunting cases. But after an ill-advised attack, Antea is killed and becomes the thing she has sworn to eradicate. Torn between their vows to protect the living from malicious spirits and the nightmare of Antea’s condition, Red must choose between honoring his oath and sacrificing the living in a desperate bid to bring his beloved back.

Previously set for release back in November, Banishers: Ghosts...

This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for “Forget Me Not.”

Although Star Trek: Discovery was positioned as a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, the edgier nature of the series immediately drew comparisons to Deep Space Nine. And, now that Discovery has jumped well beyond the 23rd century, it’s in the strange position of being a prequel that is now a sequel to all of Trek.

In Season 3, Episode 4, “Forget Me Not,” Discovery doesn’t just seem like a sequel to DS9 in its style or grittiness, it literally revisits one of DS9’s most famous planets, the Trill homeworld. So, if you felt like you were watching a far-future DS9 sequel, you’re not wrong! Here’s all the Easter eggs and references to the entire canon of Trek (but mostly DS9) in “Forget Me Not.”

Senna Tal’s name

The Starfleet admiral whose message Burnham intercepted is named “Senna Tal.

This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 2. You can read our review of the episode here.

In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Naked Time,” Scotty famously told Captain Kirk that “I can’t change the laws of physics.” The physics Scotty was talking about applied more to the science fiction rules of how the Enterprise’s warp engines work than real physics, but within Trek a larger point still stands: When it comes to outer space technology, Trek likes to keep its made-up physics fairly consistent. And, even though Discovery is now nine centuries beyond Scotty, the ship itself predates Scotty’s tenure on the Enterprise by almost a decade.

The second episode of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 — “Far From Home” — feels like an episode of Tos in more ways than one. But perhaps the biggest way is the fact that the crew...

This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for the Season 3 premiere.

You’d think that a new Star Trek series set centuries and centuries beyond any of the shows and movies wouldn’t have that many references to the series and films that came before, right? Well, Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 might be set in a brand new time period — the year 3188 to be precise — but the narrative is built atop the layered history of Trek’s future history super carefully. Showrunner Michelle Paradise and Alex Kurtzman have mentioned several times that 930 years from 2257 puts them well past the constraints of canon, and yet, the debut episode of Discovery Season 3, demonstrates a meticulous understanding of where this show came from, and a desire to keep everything about the larger story of Star Trek, as tightly knit as possible.

In other words, there were a lot more Easter eggs and references...

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television revealed the winners for this year’s screenwriting showcase on June 8 via a virtual Zoom ceremony attended by nearly 70 Mfa screenwriting students, faculty, and staff.

During the event, host Cat Wilkins acknowledged the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd and encouraged support and allyship for the Black community. The attendees ordered in from Black-owned restaurants during the virtual ceremony and were surprised by special guests including Pose co-creator and UCLA Alum Steven Canals, Oscar-winning filmmaker John Ridley, and showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman.

“I know this is a really strange time culturally, and it may not feel like a time you want to celebrate, but you should absolutely take this opportunity to pat yourself on the back,” Canals said. “Stories matter. Stories are important. That is the way that we reflect our humanity…and heal the world.

Exclusive: Quibi has handed a series order to Doomlands (working title) an adult animated comedy from Josh O’Keefe, Josh Bowen (Gary and His Demons) and Look Mom! Productions, a Blue Ant Studios company that specializes in original animated programming for teens and adults.

Created and directed by O’Keefe, in Doomlands (wt), the infamous Danny Doom and aspiring bartender Lhandi sling beers across a hellish wasteland in their mobile subterranean pub: The Oasis. In order to survive, all the crew needs to do is not kill each other.

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Doomland pays homage to O’Keefe’s Australian upbringing and love for “Ozploitation” film. O’Keefe began the project through a successful Kickstarter campaign. It was picked up by Look Mom!