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Warner Bros Discovery has officially launched streamer Max in Turkey. The service replaces Wbd’s existing streamer, BluTV, and will debut with a trio of new local originals such as Anatomy of Chaos, Jasmin and Feride alongside premiering U.S. shows including The Last of Us Season 2 and the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale, and movies including Barbie, the Harry Potter franchise and the Dune films. At a press launch today in Turkey, Wbd unveiled the TV originals and gave first looks at the upcoming Turkish series First Göktürk, Prince Season 3 and Çekiç ve Gül: Bir Behzat Ç. Hikayesi Season 3. For a limited period, subscribers will also get access to Eurosport. “Bringing Max to Türkiye is a key milestone for Warner Bros. Discovery and marks the completion of the successful integration of BluTV into our portfolio,” said Jamie Cooke, General Manager Cee,...

The addition of C-Span comes following renewed advocacy calls from Representative Mike Flood (R-ne) to make government proceedings more accessible to the public.

This week in streaming, following renewed advocacy calls to make Cspan more accessible for live TV streaming service customers, Directv Stream has added the channel to its genre packages amidst other entertainment, sports, and news offerings.

Plus, Seth Rogen’s “The Studio” opens its doors and March Madness continues — get our weekend watch recommendations below!

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Top news: Directv Stream adds C-span, more to genre packages

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Directv Stream adds C-Span, baseball RSNs, and more

The inner workings of the U.S. government may seem like a mystery to many citizens (especially when there seems to be no rhyme or reason to most acts and orders of late), but...

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DirecTV is launching a new local sports add-on that allows subscribers of its MySports television package to access their regional sports network.

The add-on, called MyHome Team, will cost $20 per month and will have limited availability in around two dozen markets where the company has the rights to offer a regional sports network through the MySports plan. The Desk was the first to report that DirecTV was working on a regional sports add-on package for its MySports subscribers.

The channels available through the MyHome Team add-on include:

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A new add-on pack specifically for Directv MySports subscribers unlocks RSNs that carry 37 MLB, NBA, and NHL teams, with more on the way.

The Directv MySports package is one of the most intriguing live TV products to hit the market in some time. It strips out the cable entertainment and news channels that many sports fans think of as unnecessary in their channel package, allowing them to pay only to watch the 40+ sports networks that MySports carries. At launch, MySports did not offer any way to watch regional sports networks (RSNs), but that is now changing with the rollout of the MyHome Team mini add-on pack.

Key Details: MyHome Team allows viewers to watch their local Rsn if they choose. The add-on has RSNs featuring 37 MLB, NBA, and NHL teams. The pack costs $20 per month on top of the $70 to stream MySports. 5-Day Free Trial $86.99+ / month directv.com/stream

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Here’s a sign-up perk that may perk up the ears of gridiron fans: Verizon will give customers on certain plans access to the NFL Sunday Ticket out-of-market games package from YouTube for the 2024-25 season for no extra charge.

Under the special promo, Verizon customers who sign up for or upgrade to select wireless and home internet plans will get next season’s NFL Sunday Ticket free — regularly priced at up to $449 — if they act by Dec. 10, 2024.

The offer is available to Verizon mobile customers who are new premium unlimited mobile customers (or are existing customers who add a new line to their account), purchase a select smartphone (such as a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 or Galaxy Z Flip6 or Google Pixel Fold) and sign up for a mobile line on an Unlimited Plus or Unlimited Ultimate plan. New Verizon Home Internet customers who sign up for premium Verizon...

Verizon is bringing a new bundle that includes significant entertainment options to market, but this time it is gearing it toward home internet customers.

As part of a major brand refresh that will also see the company debut a new logo and loyalty program, the telecom giant will also roll out what it is calling “myHome,” a program for home internet customers that combines connectivity, live TV, streaming apps and other services.

A customer who signs up will choose between Fios, 5G or Lte home internet plans, and then for another $10 per month can choose from a menu of streaming services, including Netflix & Max (with ads), the Disney Bundle (including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+), YouTube Premium, and a Walmart+ membership with an included Paramount+ subscription.

They can then choose a live TV option (either Verizon’s own Fios TV or YouTube TV), and other options like cloud storage. Users can...

Verizon is launching myHome, a new offering for home internet customers that lets them choose discounted streaming packages and select YouTube TV as their bundled pay-tv provider.

The new plan’s arrival is accompanied by the rollouts of a new consumer plan, Verizon Access, and a new smartphone management setup for Verizon Business. The telco giant is also updating its brand and logo as it brings the new options to the marketplace.

Verizon’s existing 67 million home internet customers, or any new ones signing up, will have the option of creating a custom entertainment experience via myHome. Customers will choose “content perks,” the company said, from various streaming services for $10 a month. Among the bundled options are Netflix & Max (with ads), the Disney Bundle, YouTube Premium, and Walmart+ membership with an included Paramount+ subscription. (Apple One and Apple Music Family are coming later this summer.

Paris-based outfit Silex Films is teaming up with Charades for “In Waves,” a California-set tale of unconditional love and surfing, adapted from American illustrator Aj Dungo’s critically acclaimed graphic novel of the same name.

“In Waves” will mark the feature debut of Phuong Mai Nguyen, a graduate of the Gobelins and La Poudriere animation schools who has directed several shorts, including “My Home,” which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards in 2016. She co-helmed the animated series “Brazen,” a series about historical women of various time periods which was also produced by Silex.

Fanny Burdino and Samuel Doux, a pair of successful screenwriters, are co-writing the script and have given it enough depth to appeal large audiences beyond the obvious animation or surf fan niches, said Priscilla Bertin, Silex’s co-founder (with Judith Nora). Burdino and Doux have worked with celebrated auteurs, including Joachim Lafosse, Cedric Kahn and Laurent Cantet...

Line-up also includes the new project from two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker.

Danish documentary festival Cph:dox has revealed the 35 projects set to be presented at Cph:forum, its financing and co-production event that will take place online-only from April 26-30.

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The selection includes new projects from two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker (Waste Land), Sundance winners Mads Brügger (Cold Case Hammarskjöld) and Eugene Jarecki (The House I Live In), Berlin Crystal Bear winner Geneviève Dulude-De Celle (A Colony) and Venice Horizons winner Lech Kowalski (East Of Paradise).

Further notable filmmakers include Radu Ciorniciuc, whose Acasa,...

Of the 238 feature documentaries to qualify for Oscar consideration this year, two of the most acclaimed contenders come from Romania—an impressive achievement for the Eastern European nation.

Collective, Romania’s official Oscar entry for Best International Film, has won more than 20 prizes to date and this week was named one of the top five foreign language films of the year by the National Board of Review. Acasa, My Home, directed by Radu Ciorniciuc, has been similarly lauded, winning awards at film festivals around the world and a nomination for the IDA Documentary Awards in Los Angeles.

To Ciorniciuc, the success of Romanian documentaries constitutes a dramatic turn of events.

“Two decades ago the [Romanian] film industry was dead, and documentary was something that was only used for propaganda,” Ciorniciuc notes. “And now every year we have a title that goes further and further outside the borders, creating so many important discussions and debates,...

“When encountering the societal and economic structures of everyday life, it’s not a rare dream for many to wonder what life may look like off the grid and out of the hands of a bureaucratic entity that doesn’t have your best interests in mind,” I noted in my review for Acasă, My Home, one of the essential documentaries this New Year. “For one family living in the vast water reservoir of the Bucharest Delta, they have made this their reality for the last eighteen years. The Enache family and their nine children call this abandoned area their home, sleeping in their homemade hut, fishing for food, and taking gentle care of this slice of nature directly outside the hectic Romanian capital. As outside interest in their homeland grows, Acasă, My Home director Radu Ciorniciuc captures the forces of civilization that cause an upheaval of their lives with a well-rounded eye,...

Off-grid living is an attractive prospect to some, especially survivalists, libertarians and common-or-garden misanthropes. Such people’s rejection of society has inspired recent gems like Captain Fantastic and Leave No Trace, which raise difficult questions about civilisation, meaning and happiness. With Acasa, My Home, Romanian director Radu Ciorniciuc uses a cinema verite style to examine a real world example – the Enache family of the Bucharest Delta.

In establishing his subjects, Ciorniciuc’s direct cinema is joined by a smooth sense of narrative, giving his observational film a cinematic sensibility. This may lend a directorial presence on occasion, but generally it is an uncannily natural and intimate piece of documentary filmmaking, albeit one that doesn’t quite penetrate its central figure, Gica Enache.

The family of 12 lived in the delta for 20 years before the government came knocking. It was an area neglected for so long that a unique ecosystem arose, boasting...

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Acasă, My Home’s opening passage ends with a single shot that is so startling it would normally be quite hard for the rest of the film to live up to its surprise. It’s little wonder then that it won a Special Jury Award for cinematography at 2020’s Sundance Film Festival, having some of the best use of drone documentary photography I’ve seen—something that should silence the naysayers of this common doc tool, at least for a little bit.

It’s lucky then for first-time Romanian filmmaker Radu Ciorniciuc—previously only known as a journalist and for featuring in something called, yes, Sick Chicken: What You Need to Know—that drama follows his subjects wherever they go...

The IFC Films documentary MLK/FBI from filmmaker Sam Pollard makes its debut in select theaters today as well as on demand. The release aligns with Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18 and it is super relevant to America’s wild inequity and racist treatment of the Black community — specifically Black activists.

MLK/FBI made its world premiere last year at the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to play at the New York Film Festival. The riveting docu exposes J. Edgar Hoover and the U.S. government’s surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was labeled by the FBI as the “most dangerous” Black person in America.

Based on newly discovered and declassified files, as well as revelatory restored footage, the documentary explores the government’s history of targeting Black activists. Considering the insurrection that took place last...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Acasă, My Home (Radu Ciorniciuc)

When encountering the societal and economic structures of everyday life, it’s not a rare dream for many to wonder what life may look like off the grid and out of the hands of a bureaucratic entity that doesn’t have your best interests in mind. For one family living in the vast water reservoir of the Bucharest Delta, they have made this their reality for the last eighteen years. The Enache family and their nine children call this abandoned area their home, sleeping in their homemade hut, fishing for food, and taking gentle care of this slice of nature directly outside the hectic Romanian capital.

Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week, […]

The post This Week In Trailers: PG: Psycho Goreman, Acasa, My Home, Blown Away, Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons appeared first on /Film.

Other laureates at the human rights film festival, which took place online and in cinemas in three of the biggest Serbian cities, include Digger, Acasă - My Home and Wildland. The 16th, hybrid edition of the Free Zone Film Festival took place from 5-10 November in cinemas in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš, as well as online. The human rights-themed and audience-orientated event traditionally screens around 40 fiction and documentary films, and does not discriminate between formats within individual sections. Eliza Hittman's Berlinale Silver Bear-winning title Never Rarely Sometimes Always (USA/UK) triumphed in the International Selection, beating the documentaries The Reason I Jump by Jerry Rothwell, Epicentro by Hubert Sauper, My Favorite War by Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen, Welcome to Chechnya by David France and Schlingensief: A Voice That Shook the Silence by Bettina Böhler as well as the fiction features DNA by Maïwenn and Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness by.

Nominations for feature film and documentary up from five to six.

The nominations for the 2020 European Film Awards have been unveiled, with the size of two key categories extended as a result of the virus crisis.

The categories for best feature and best documentary have each been increased from five to six to offer more exposure to titles and artists impacted by cinema closures and release delays during the pandemic.

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The films nominated in the best European Film category are Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Berhan Qurbani’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, Jan Komasa’s Corpus Christi,...

Doc NYC, America’s largest documentary festival and staple of the New York film community, announced the lineup for its 11th edition, running online November 11-19 and available to viewers across the US. The program includes new films about John Belushi, Pope Francis, Bill T. Jones, Jamal Khashoggi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank Zappa, and many more. The 2020 festival lineup includes 107 feature-length documentaries among over 200 films and dozens of events. Included are 23 World Premieres, 12 international or North American premieres, and 7 US premieres. Fifty-seven features (53% of the lineup) are directed or co-directed by women and 36 by Bipoc directors (34% of the feature program).

World Premieres at the festival include Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo’s “A La Calle,” Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan,” Sian-Pierre Regis’s “Duty Free,” Noah Hutton’s “In Silico,” Nancy Buirski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,...

The Amsterdan event is planned as a hybrid physical-digital edition.

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) has unveiled the first titles selected for edition, which is set to go ahead as a mix of physical and virtual events from November 18-29.

The festival will screen 30 documentaries first selected for the Berlinale, Sundance and Cannes under the banner Best of Fests.

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The titles include The Truffle Hunters by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, which debuted at Sundance before being being selected for both Cannes and Telluride (although neither took place); and Elizabeth Lo’s Stray,...

More than half of all competition titles directed by women.

Switzerland’s Zurich Film Festival (Zff) has unveiled the full programme for its 2020 edition, which is set to go ahead as a physical event from September 24 to October 4.

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The 16th edition of the festival will comprise 165 films, of which 23 are world premieres and more than half of the competition titles are directed by women. Zff also revealed that Oscar-winning UK actress Olivia Colman will receive an honorary award and Johnny Depp is set to attend the festival with a new documentary.

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After being forced to pivot entirely online last-minute due to a Covid spike, Bosnia’s Sarajevo Film Festival is coming to a close and has unveiled its prize winners for this year’s edition.

A jury chaired by Michel Hazanavicius and featuring Berlinale director Carlo Chatrian, actress Jadranka Đokić, director Srdan Golubović and the Morelia Film Festival’s Andrea Stavenhagen, awarded the festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo, to Visar Morina’s Exile. The pic stars Misel Maticevic and Sandra Huller in the story of a chemical engineer of foreign origin who plunges into an identity crisis. It debuted at Sundance this year.

The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Director went to Ru Hasanov for The Island Within, while Best Actress went to Marija Škaričić for Mare, and Best Actor went to Vangelis Mourikis for Digger. You can see the list of awards below, as well as the festival’s industry winners.

Festival will world premiere 12 features across its dramatic and documentary competitions.

Eight features have been selected for the main competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival, which is taking place as a physical event from August 14-21.

They include the world premieres of More Raça’s Andromeda Galaxy; Fatih Özcan’s Mavzer; Ruxandra Ghițescu’s Otto The Barbarian; and Ru Hasanov’s The Island Within. A further three films played in the Berlinale’s Panorama section earlier this year: Visar Morina’s Exile; Andrea Staka’s Mare; and Georgis Grigorakis’ Digger, which won the strand’s Cicae Award.

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