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Now in its fifth year, European Film Promotion’s Future Frames is a next-generation showcase comprising short works by students and recent graduates of European film schools, curated by the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival in cooperation with the Efp.

The program has already established itself as an important platform for discovering European talent; this year’s program, which includes two student Academy Award winners, promises to be especially exciting. Participants will take part in a master class led by Greek helmer Syllas Tzoumerkas (“The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea”) and meet with industry experts from various fields in order to build up their international networks.

The selected directors and their films will be introduced to the public, press and industry at the festival over June 30-July 3. The program is supported by the Creative Europe — Media Program of the European Union and the respective Efp member organizations. AMC Networks and...

In today’s film news roundup, Sterling K. Brown is cast as a basketball coach, Kino Lorber hires a programming veteran and Imagine promotes Karen Lunder.

Casting

Sterling K. Brown will play the lead role of Coach Willie Davis in inspirational sports drama “Rise” for Sony’s faith-based Affirm Films, Crystal City Entertainment and Gulfstream Pictures.

Kevin Rodney Sullivan will start filming in May in Louisiana with a wide theatrical release on April 10, 2020. The script was written by Randy Brown and Gregory Allen Howard.

Davis, a junior high school janitor, seized the opportunity to head coach the school’s basketball team as the school was weighing the decision to cancel the program due to funding concerns. Davis stressed “The Lord, books and basketball” to the team and became a role model for many of the kids in the school and surrounding community.

Producers are Ari Pinchot, Stuart Avi Savitsky, Mike Karz and Bill Bindley.

By the early 1970s, Willie Nelson was both an acclaimed songwriter and a frustrated artist. Having recorded for Liberty and then RCA Records, the Texan notched just one Top Ten solo hit with “Touch Me,” in 1962. He wouldn’t have another until 1975, by which time he was recording for Columbia Records, a move that afforded him more creative control over his material and the production of his albums.

But between his seven-year stretch at RCA, and the golden — and platinum — years at Columbia, Nelson was living in Austin and entertaining...

If you can judge an audience’s excitement by the number of camera phones hoisted into the air, then two moments stand out for the Los Angeles event dubbed Malibu Love Sesh. First, was when Jack Black made a cameo in the middle of Beck’s set. The second was simply when headliners Red Hot Chili Peppers burst into “Californication.”

It was a proudly California affair, a benefit held Sunday at the Hollywood Palladium to benefit victims of the Woolsey Fire that swept through Malibu last November. At an event...

Two final titles will complete the Grid for this year’s Berlinale.

Alonso Ruizpalacios’ Museum and Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not have dropped into Screen’s Berlin Jury Grid, scoring either side of the mid-point.

Fresh from its Berlin premiere last night and reviewed here, Museum is a heist drama starring Gabriel García Bernal, and took 2 (average) from four critics, with Screen’s own giving it a 4 (excellent), for a 2.4 average.

The intimacy-exploring Touch Me Not fared less well, with four scores of 1, a 2 and a 3 from Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus for an average of 1.5. See Screen’s review here.

The final two titles coming up on the Grid are Thomas Stuber’s third Berlin feature In The Aisles and Mug from Malgorzata Szumowska, who tied for the Silver Bear for directing in 2015.

Two final titles will complete the Grid for this year’s Berlinale.

Alonso Ruizpalacios’ Museum and Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not have dropped into Screen’s Berlin Jury Grid, scoring either side of the mid-point.

Fresh from its Berlin premiere last night and reviewed here, Museum is a heist drama starring Gabriel García Bernal, and took 2 (average) from four critics, with Screen’s own giving it a 4 (excellent), for a 2.4 average.

The intimacy-exploring Touch Me Not fared less well, with four scores of 1, a 2 and a 3 from Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus for an average of 1.5. See Screen’s review here.

The final two titles coming up on the Grid are Thomas Stuber’s third Berlin feature In The Aisles and Mug from Malgorzata Szumowska, who tied for the Silver Bear for directing in 2015.