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AMC+’s “Lakota Nation vs. United States” landed two of the top awards on Thursday at the documentary portion of the News & Documentary Emmys, landing the kudos for best documentary and for outstanding direction: documentary. The doc was directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli and executive produced by Mark Ruffalo.

It was also a good night for Netflix, which landed six wins total — the most of any network or platform. Netflix’s wins included two for “World War II: From the Front Lines,” as well as for “Victim/Suspect,” “American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing,” “Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul” and “Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food.”

“Lakota Nation vs. United States,” “World War II: From the Front Lines” and PBS’ “Frontline” were the only titles to pick up more than one Emmy on the evening. PBS’ wins were split between two for “Frontline,” one...

Updated from original 12:58 p.m. story with more details and full winners list: In the Rearview, Maciek Hamela’s documentary about Ukrainians fleeing war in their homeland, won the Grand Jury Award for International Competition tonight at the 30th Sheffield DocFest. [Scroll for full list of winners].

The film premiered in May at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival in Poland before heading to Cannes and then to Sheffield, where it entered competition with eight other documentaries.

“This film started as volunteer work,” Hamela noted as he accepted the prize. “I wanted to say thank you for all the support that the U.K. has given to this amazing humanitarian effort in this war in Ukraine… [It’s] a country that has never been indifferent [to the war].

‘In the Rearview’: A Ukrainian girl holds a paper with vital information about her in case she is killed in the war.

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Hamela,...

In The Rearview Photo: Courtesy of DocFest In The Rearview took home the Grand Jury Award for the International Competition at this year's Sheffield DocFest as the winners were announced tonight.

Maciek Hamela's film documents Ukrainians fleeing their country on a minibus and the jury said they were "stunned by the brilliant simplicity" of it.

Jing Guo's Stone Town, which charts seismic change in a Chinese fishing village, received a special mention.

The Grand Jury Award in the International First Feature Competition went to Q by Jude Chenab, which charts her family's connection to a Syrian religious order.

The Tim Hetherington Award - which recognises a film and filmmaker that best reflects the legacy of photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, who died will covering the Libyan civil war - went to 20 Days In Mariupol, directed by Мstyslav Chernov.

The Grand Jury Award for the International Short Film Competition...

Paris-based sales company is hosting several market premieres at Rendez-Vous.

Paris-based sales company The Party has acquired Happy! (working title), Pascal Plisson’s upcoming documentary about children with disabilities who chase their dreams despite the obstacles they face.

Writer and filmmaker Plisson’s doc On The Way To School was a box office success in France with 1.4 million admissions and sold to 18 countries worldwide in addition to winning the best documentary award at the Cesars in 2014. He is also behind recent docs Grand Jour, released in 2015, and Gogo in 2019 about a 94 year-old woman attending school in Kenya.

With Happy!, Plisson...

As technology is spreading its tentacles in as myriad ways as it can be possible, the fallouts are being documented cinematically as well to underline mindless adoption of technologies by humans. Danish film The Takeover is one such film in the category.

The year was 1993. We were watching Demolition Man (1993) starring Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock. There was one scene where for the sake of love making Sandra Bullock wore a contraption and asked Sylvester Stallone to wear the same as well and experience the magic of love making without actually doing it. Sylvester Stallone’s character just pulled off the contraption and exclaimed – if love making is to be done like this then it is a matter of disgrace. It was a cinematic visualization of where and in what form could technology lead to!

Cut to 2022. The Takeover, a film from the Netherlands now showing on Netflix, has brought...

It is after a long time that jazz wizardry is unleashed as a binding element and the mode of continuity and soul of R D Burman would be mightily pleased that one of his iconic songs is now the title of a film.

Monica O My Darling is a film that unleashes the prowess of Huma Qureshi as an actor par excellence who can carry a film on her shoulders with panache. As a follow up of Maharani-2, Huma Qureshi has underlined the seamless manner in which she can slip into roles of characters and make a success out of it.

Mounted on the platform of a noir film, Monica O My Darling is a fast-paced thriller which has the potential to captivate the audience and keep them riveted till the end of the movie. While Raj Kumar Rao is the main hero, the film rides more on the...

David Cronenberg‘s Scanners is coming back to life as a television series for HBO, THR reports this afternoon, the upcoming series based on the Canadian sci-fi/horror movie from 1981.

William Bridges (“Black Mirror”) will be serving as the writer and showrunner of the series, with Yann Demange (“Lovecraft Country”) on board to direct as well as produce.

THR reminds, “Scanners told of a small group of super-powered people with a range of psychic, telepathic and telekenetic power.

“One faction of scanners, as these people were labeled, were led by a power-mad man named Revok, played by Michael Ironside, who aims to take over the world, while a private security firm recruits its own scanners to stop him for its own, possibly shady, reasons.”

THR also details, “The series is being described as a visceral thriller set in the mind-bending world of Cronenberg’s film. It will focus on two...