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Inside Out, Canada’s foremost LGBTQ film festival, has unveiled the 16 recipients for its RE:Focus 'Emergency Relief Fund', which was created in response to the pandemic and its impact on the industry. The fund was open to qualifying projects by women, non-binary, and/or trans filmmakers, including narrative and…

Amazon Prime Video is not just bringing a roster of horror, comedy and superheroes? to Comic-Con@Home, but they are also bringing the first-ever Amazon Virtual-Con which will include virtual experiences and activations that you can enjoy from the comfort of your home. Things are set to kick off on San Diego Comic…

The fall festival trifecta – Venice, Telluride and Toronto – plus the nearby New York Film Festival, say they are ditching competing this year to focus on collaboration and supporting the cinema biz through the pandemic era. Traditionally the first port of call for films intending to launch into awards season, the…

The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the film calendar with Sundance, Toronto and London the latest festivals to announce hybrid events featuring physical and online activity. Below we rundown the current status of some of the key upcoming festivals and markets in the next six months; this list…

The Venice Film Festival this morning said that the 77th edition will go ahead from September 2-12 with certain changes owing to sanitary protocols imposed by the COVID-19 crisis. The overall number of films in the official selection will be reduced, down to about 50-55, while the competitive sections Venezia 77 and…

Karlovy Vary, one of the major Euro film festivals in the summer calendar, has set a special four-day event for the fall, ‘Karlovy Vary IFF 54 ?’. The Czech Republic spa town is not classifying the one-off fest, which will run November 18-21, as an official edition, with its 55th incarnation instead taking place on…

Spain's San Sebastian Film Festival is pushing on with plans to become one of the first major film festivals to hold a physical 2020 edition since the pandemic enforced cancellations and postponement across the calendar. Today, the fest revealed a preview of its official selection for this year. The first titles…

EXCLUSIVE: Events are being completely redefined during COVID-19, with the word “virtual” becoming the driving concept at a time when physical gatherings are not possible. Navigating this 2020 landscape, Michael Sugar’s Sugar23 has teamed up with experiential agency Blue Revolver to bring to market new virtual event…

Walmart and Tribeca Enterprises have teamed up to turn the retail giant's parking lots in 160 locations across the country into drive-in movie theaters to help liven up a summer marred by COVID-forced social distancing. Movies will be programmed by the Tribeca Drive-In team in August through October for a combined 320…

EXCLUSIVE: Arts organizations of every stripe have been particularly hard-hit by COVID-19, and the Sundance Institute is the latest to respond to the difficult environment by cutting costs. In a memo to employees obtained by Deadline, CEO and executive director Keri Putnam says 24 staff positions are being eliminated…

Sundance Festival Director Tabitha Jackson unveiled today in an open memo to the Sundance community what the 2021 Festival is bound to look like in the continuing COVID-19 environment. While recognizing that there’s still no vaccine, that many are unable to travel, yet socially distanced gatherings are permitted in…

EXCLUSIVE: The Mickey Rourke, Sean Stone and Eric Roberts crime drama?Night Walk?has secured North American distribution via Grindstone Entertainment Group, with Scatena & Rosner Films taking global sales rights, Deadline can exclusively report. Directed and produced by Moroccan-born filmmaker Aziz Tazi, Night…