Manori Ravindran

2 weeks ago | rts.org.uk | Manori Ravindran

It’s opening night for the new feature documentary from Silverback Films, Ocean With David Attenborough, and 40 or so people are gathered in a Reading cinema. Teenagers slouch at the back while a child leads his grandfather to the front row, keen to see the 99-year-old presenter’s latest marine adventure. On a Thursday night, it’s an impressive turnout for a cinema that can struggle to draw half this number for a Hollywood blockbuster.

3 weeks ago | theankler.com | Manori Ravindran

I cover int’l TV from London. I wrote about the U.K. company behind Netflix’s Adolescence, Ireland’s “conveyer belt” of unscripted production and Blue Cheap: 4 new ways of making TV only look expensive. I’m at [email protected] Films made the biggest British drama of the last two decades. But could it have made the same TV show today? Unlikely.

1 month ago | theankler.com | Manori Ravindran

I cover int’l TV from London. I wrote about the U.K. company behind Netflix’s Adolescence, Ireland’s “conveyer belt” of unscripted production and how the U.K.’s Studio Lambert mints reality hits like Squid Game: The Challenge and Traitors. I’m at [email protected] social feeds this week were a heady mix of film execs sipping rosé in Cannes and TV execs schmoozing with the likes of Donnie Wahlberg and Shemar Moore on studio lots in Los Angeles. Same same, but, um, different.

1 month ago | screendaily.com | Manori Ravindran

Nigerian cinema joins the A-list with Akinola Davies Jr’s debut, following two brothers on a road trip across Lagos. Screen talks to producers Rachel Dargavel and Funmbi Ogunbanwo. Nigeria’s thriving, domestic-focused Nollywood may sit just behind the likes of Hollywood and Bollywood as one of the world’s largest film industries, but Cannes Film Festival has for decades remained elusive. This year, however, it cracked the A-list festival circuit with Akinola Davies Jr’s My Father’s Shadow.

1 month ago | screendaily.com | Manori Ravindran

Kristen Stewart has arrived in Cannes for what feels like the umpteenth time. But this edition is different – this time, she’ll be walking the red steps as a director premiering her feature directing debut The Chronology Of Water, a movie that has taken her half a decade to get made. It’s been suggested in the press that Stewart may have had the resources to fund her own film, but the actor has a visceral reaction to the prospect of doing so: “No fucking way.