International Sámi Film Institute’s managing director Anne-Lajla Utsi will now add “trailblazer” to her résumé as the recipient of the first-ever Women in Film and Television International Peace Prize. The award ceremony will take place on Sept. 23 during the WIFTI Helsinki Summit. The same week, WIFT Finland will present its digital “Equality Tool” for

Iran has selected “The Night Guardian,” directed by Reza Mirkarimi as its contender for the 2023-24 best international feature film category of the Academy Awards. The announcement was made by the Farabi Cinema Foundation, which reported a unanimous decision by the selection committee. Some 42 Iranian films were eligible, which the committee initially shortlisted to

Spooky season is upon us! Halloween is fast approaching and if you want to have the chicest haunted house on the block you’ll need to start prepping now. While we’re always partial to the perfectly carved (or smashed) pumpkin, but what about an animated jack-o-lanern that can sing! Technology has brought this year’s collection of

Oscar season is always full of twists and turns, and the biggest one yet just dropped with “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Variety has learned exclusively that Lily Gladstone’s work as Mollie Burkhart, an Indigenous woman at the center of a sinister plot in Martin Scorsese’s crime epic, will be campaigned for the Oscars in

The 67th BFI London Film Festival’s annual industry forum has assembled a lineup of heavyweights. The forum events, which take place through the festival, kick off with a conversation between Bill Kramer, CEO, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and Jane Millichip, CEO of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts)