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This year’s supremely strange Academy Awards are about many things. The rise of streaming services. The long-overdue recognition of diverse artists telling diverse stories. The absolute upside-down disruption of Hollywood business. But there is another, knottier issue hiding in plain sight: China, and its iron grip on the future of filmmaking.
For the first time in more than five decades, Hong Kong television station TVB will not air this year’s Academy Awards, following a move last month in which Beijing ordered media in mainland China to not broadcast live coverage of the April 25 gala. And on Douban, China’s massive cultural-centric social networking service, any mention of the 2021 event
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British film-maker Malcolm Clarke, a two-time Oscar winner for Best Documentary Short Subject, explains in the interview why he chose to live in Shanghai and why China is the perfect place for a documentary filmmaker. I m an English documentary filmmaker who has been living and working in China for about 7 years now. To me, what we in the West call the rise of China, I see as the renaissance of China, arguably the biggest ongoing news story of the 21st century. For centuries, Shanghai has precisely performed that role in China, a welcoming first ‘port of call’ for foreigners eager to engage with and learn more about this extraodinary country. It s no different today.
Prince Harry and Meghan’s first Netflix series to document Invictus Games
Prince Harry and Meghan s first Netflix doccie will document competitors and their road to the Invictus Games 2022.
Prince Harry and Meghan’s first Netflix series
In partnership with Harry’s Invictus Games Foundation,
Heart of Invictus, the series will follow a group of competitors – all service members or veterans – from around the world as they prepare for next year’s Invictus Games tournament in the Netherlands.
Over several episodes, viewers will join the competitors as they train and “reveal powerful stories of resilience and hope,” reports
Harpers Bazaar. Along the way, the series will also follow organisers from the sporting event as they prepare for the spring 2022 tournament in The Hague, which has been postponed twice since its original May 2020 date due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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