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Gaza Cinema Academy Launches To Help Gazans Tell Their Own Stories
The official launch of the Gaza Cinema Academy was announced at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, as the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory continues to dominate global news.
The initiative – co-founded by Palestinian filmmakers Ezzaldeen Shalh and Mai Masri – aims to establish a sustainable space for film education, training and production in the Gaza Strip.
Gaza-based director and film academic Shalh is known for works such as The Dry Spring, The Other World and Love and Bread as well as for spearheading the Gaza International Women’s Film Festival.
“In Gaza, cinema is not merely an art form; it is a means of preserving memory, reclaiming our right to shape our own image, and giving a new generation the tools to tell its own story,” he said.
The launch was accompanied by a short film showing Shalh in the classroom with aspiring female filmmakers talking about their desire to bring their stories to the big screen.
Palestinian film and TV heavyweights Annemarie Jacir, Hiam Abbass and Saleh Bakri have gotten behind the initiative, with Egyptian comedian and filmmaker Ramy Youssef, Tunisian The Voice of Hind Rajab director Kaouther Ben Hania, who is in Venice this year as a member of the jury; Italian producer Graziella Bildesheim, and Alaa Karkouti, cofounder of Cairo-based film promotion and talent company Mad Solutions, also lending their support.
The official launch of the academy is the next step in a process that began in 2024 with the development of the Gaza Filmmaking Diploma, a nine-month theoretical and practical filmmaking training which welcomed its first intake of 25 young Palestinian women in March 2026.
The academy is also working to develop a filmmaking degree accredited by Al-Quds Open University, the main higher education institute for Palestinians, with the aim of establishing a sustainable academic pathway for film education in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian cinema pioneer Masri is best known for her 2015 feature 3000 Nights, which premiered in Toronto and the played numerous festivals worldwide.
“Supporting a new generation of filmmakers in Gaza means giving them a space to express their reality, memory and dreams. We believe that creativity and cinema can empower, preserve human memory, and build bridges that transcend borders,” she said.
Shalh invited film and cultural institutions, festivals, film funds, production companies, filmmakers and related organizations around the world to build partnerships with the Academy, to exchanging expertise, provide resources and professional opportunities.
“We want the Academy to open a window for young people and women in Gaza to learn, create and make their own films, and for their voices and images to reach the world. We invite our partners in institutions, universities and the international film community to be part of building this space,” he said.
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Gary Oldman has claimed that the next James Bond has been decided.
In an interview with Canada’s Global, Oldman backed his Slow Horses co-star Jack Lowden to play 007, saying he had his “fingers crossed” for the Scottish actor.
Oldman said: “It’s been rumored that he’s on the shortlist. We’re going to find out pretty soon, aren’t we? Because they have picked him. They have made their choice, but they have not announced it yet. So my fingers are crossed for Jack.”
It’s not clear from Oldman’s comments whether he means that Lowden has been cast as Bond, or whether he is talking more generally about Amazon MGM Studios alighting on Ian Fleming’s secret agent.
Amazon MGM Studios has been approached for comment.
Deadline reported over the summer that auditions were taking place for James Bond in August. Producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman, as well as director Denis Villeneuve, informed talent who had been shortlisted.
At the time, we reported that Harris Dickinson, Callum Turner, and Jacob Elordi fit the idea of Bond that Amazon MGM Studios had in mind.
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“Shocking.” “Brilliant.” “Insane.” “What the f*** did I just watch?” Just some of the words used to describe You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim‘s new documentary about Theranos founder and convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, by those who were lucky enough to attend the surprise screening of the film at the Telluride Film Festival on Sunday.
After its Telluride screening, official critics reviews are imminent, but in the immediate aftermath of the premiere, various festivalgoers took to social media to express shock, bewilderment and extreme enthusiasm for the film.
Taking place in April/May 2023, the A24 docudrama sees Fielder, Oppenheim and a film crew shadow Holmes 34 days before she’s sent to prison, following her January 2022 conviction of multiple counts of defrauding investors and wire fraud.
To coincide with the screening, A24 released a teaser trailer for the film on Sunday, as well as a logline, which reads: “Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim comes You Can See Everything.”
Fielder, who made his breakthrough with Comedy Central’s highly influential comedy series Nathan For You, has dabbled in the docudrama genre in recent years with HBO’s critically accalimed series The Rehearsal. He also created, wrote and starred in the black comedy series The Curse for Paramount+.
Oppenheim is primarily known as a documentarian, and his key works include Some Kind of Heaven (2020), Spermworld (2024) and the docuseries Ren Faire (2024). Oppenheim’s first narrative feature, the Robert Pattinson-led Primetime, debuted at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend and is already eliciting awards buzz.
A24 hasn’t yet fixed a released date for the film, but You Can See Everything is set to hit theaters sometime in October.
See the Telluride reaction to You Can See Everything below.
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EXCLUSIVE: Stéphane Brizé’s A Good Little Soldier world premieres at the Venice Film Festival this week before heading onto Toronto for its North American debut and Deadline can reveal the first trailer.
Brizé’s 11th fiction feature, A Good Little Soldier sees the director return to his exploration of the workplace at the heart of previous dramas The Measure of a Man, At War and Another World.
Alba Rohrwacher stars as high-performing, dedicated HR manager Carlotta whose professional and personal life is brought to the brink when she is confronted with a case of toxic management.
In his sixth film with Brizé, Vincent Lindon, who won best actor in Cannes for his performance in The Measure of a Man, plays the pushy CEO of the corporation where Carlotta works.
When he sets a mission to promote employee well-being while maintaining demanding performance goals, compromises become unavoidable, threatening to push her to breaking point.
Gaumont, which is handling international sales announced a flurry of deals in the leadup to Venice, a number of other territories also under negotiation.
A Good Little Soldier is a Gaumont production, lead produced by Sidonie Dumas, in coproduction with France 3 Cinéma and with the support of Canal+. Gaumont will release the film in France where the film launches in cinemas on November 25.
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