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Today, It’s a Penalty launched its 14th global campaign ahead of Super Bowl Lvii focused on harnessing the power of sport to prevent abuse, exploitation and human trafficking.

Through partnerships with Hilton Hotels, Ihg Hotels & Resorts, Airbnb, Motel 6, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and many others, the 2023 Super Bowl campaign covers travel touchpoints to educate sports fans and the general public on what classifies as human trafficking and the subsequent penalties tied to those offenses. This year, It’s a Penalty is also excited to partner with Where Hope Lives, a survivor-based organization that serves women in Arizona and provides trauma-informed housing, behavioral health, medical care, education and career services.

It’s a Penalty aims to use large events that bring thousands of people together, such as the Super Bowl, as an opportunity to inform the public on not only how to identify exploitation and human trafficking, but...

Remember Kinvig, Clone, Not With A Bang? These are the UK sci-fi sitcoms you’re unlikely to see on comedy best-of lists…

With E4 sci-fi comedy commissions, Tripped and Aliens, and in-development Channel 4 projects, Space Ark and Graham Linehan/Adam Buxton collaboration The Cloud, in the works, a new crop of sci-fi sitcom could be making its way to UK TV.

Making funny sci-fi on a small-screen budget is tough enough without the additional pressure of having to attract viewers more traditionally down-to-earth in their sitcom tastes. Sci-fi sets and effects can be seen as prohibitively expensive by comedy commissioners (which is perhaps why the best UK sci-fi sitcoms of recent years has been on BBC Radio), and the genre’s niche status doesn’t scream mainstream hit. Over the years, one or two stand-outs have managed to straddle the sci-fi and comedy TV worlds, but plenty more have stumbled in the attempt.

Canadian, UK and Brazilian films win at online film festival.

Canadian documentary Davids and Goliath, about the trade of organ harvesting in China, has scooped the $50,000 first prize of the Viewster Online Film Fest charity edition, #VOFF4: Share It Forward.

Second place and $20,000 was awarded to Chris Godwin for Deafening Silence, a Icva Award-winning drama short showing the trauma of still birth from a mother’s perspective.

Cacau Rhoden of Brazil won third place and $10,000 for Drops of Joy, a documentary that focuses on the importance of maintaining one’s playful spirit from childhood into one’s adult years, and Us documentary Baja’s Secret Miracle won the festival’s Audience Award, which resulted in a $20,000 donation to The Climate Reality Project.

The charity edition of the festival, which received 230 submissions from 47 countries, was launched to build awareness around human rights, social, economic and environmental issues.

Kai Henniges, CEO, Viewster, said:...

Online film festival announces shortlist for its charity edition, which aims to raise awareness of human rights, social, economic and environmental issues.

Viewster Online Film Fest (#Voff) has unveiled the finalists for its charity edition, #Voff 4: Share It Forward.

Eliana Alvarez Martinez’s documentary Baja’s Secret Miracle has already been announced as the winner of the Audience Award (the film most shared, voted for and commented on), resulting in a $20,000 donation to Climate Reality Project which was set up by Al Gore.

Overall, the festival has 230 films from 47 countries with th aim of raising awareness around human rights, social, economic and environmental issues. This year’s jury comprises of producer Ted Hope, film-maker Timo Vuorensola and actress Nora Tschimer.

The winners, who will get a share of the $80,000 prize fund, will be announced on Dec 8 and the full shortlist is as follows:

Baja’s Secret Miracle, dir Eliana Alvarez MartinezUrban Escape, dirs David de...

Stars: Mark Pickering, Gareth John Bale, Ian Dicks, Richard Elfyn, Paul Gamble, Huw Garmon, Christopher Godwin, Ioan Hefin, Michael Jibson, Paul Jibson, Mark Lewis Jones | Written by Chris Crow, Graham Davidson | Directed by Chris Crow

Cast into a violent and bloody world of murder, Hereward, a novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne – a book of great beauty and power – to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell- bent on its capture. On his way to the monastery, he meets a fierce and skilled swordsman who answers his prayers and dedicates his life to protecting Hereward while he delivers the book. In the midst of their journey, they are confronted by Vikings ready to kill in order to get what they want, leaving Hereward and his protector at their mercy.

I have a love-hate relationship with historical Viking flicks – they...

Script rewrites. Exacting directors. Terrible twists of fate. We look back through the ages to bring you 20 nightmarish film shoots…

The lavish lifestyles of Hollywood’s more famous actors and filmmakers may hint at a world of glamour and cash, but as this list proves, the process of actually putting a movie together is rarely a dignified process. What follows is a lengthy catalogue of ill-advised location choices, tantrums, dreadful acts of God, spiked bowls of soup, ruined studios, bruised egos, broken bones and shattered dreams.

For the prospective filmmaker, this article could be read as a cautionary tale of just how badly wrong a production can go – though in order to keep the tone relatively light, we’ve excised those film productions that ended in tragedy (you’ll have to look elsewhere to discover the sad stories behind Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Crow).

Nevertheless, we suggest you...