Pnina Halfon Lang has spent more than two decades promoting, marketing, and building collaborations for Israeli cinema abroad. From her office in a worn-down Tel Aviv building, the executive director of the nonprofit CoPro Foundation now senses a sharp shift in the industry. “Business is not as usual,” she says. Since Hamas’s bloody massacre of some 1,200 in Israel on …
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More than 1,800 film industry figures, including major Hollywood actors, vowed to boycott Israeli cinema bodies they claimed were “implicated in genocide” in Gaza, in an open letter published Monday. “We pledge not to screen films, appear at, or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions — including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters, and production companies — that are implicated in genocide and …
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Director Carol Bash and Robert Shepard, director of photography, on a set for the documentary, Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band. The documentary was made with the help of funding from public media. Stacey Holman/PBS hide caption toggle caption Stacey Holman/PBS The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has helped make PBS a home for independent documentaries for more …
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If you’re planning a nice family cruise vacation this summer, don’t watch Amy Bradley Is Missing on Netflix until after you’ve safely disembarked in your home port. In 1998, 23-year-old Amy Bradley vanished from the cruise ship she and her family were vacationing on. A full search of the ship revealed nothing, leading officials to believe Bradley likely either jumped or fell overboard …
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