Manori Ravindran

1 week 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.

2 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 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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks ago | screenglobalproduction.com | Manori Ravindran

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. Premiering in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar, the film is a UK-Nigeria collaboration between London and Dublin-based Element Pictures, Lagos-outfit Fatherland and the UK’s Crybaby.