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The eighth edition of Screen International’s talent-spotting initiative Arab Stars of Tomorrow will once again launch at this year’s Red Sea International Film Festival (December 5-13).

2024’s selection of five rising talents from across the Mena region will be unveiled on Saturday, December 7 in Screen’s second Red Sea print daily and on Screendaily.com.

For the second time, the initiative has been held in conjunction with Red Sea and Film AlUla, which is hosting a photoshoot for the five selected talents, including at the first Unesco world heritage site in Saudi Arabia, the Hegra Archaealogical Site (Al Hjr).

On Saturday,...

The Inside Out LGBT Film Festival unveiled its juried winners today. The top accolades went to Faraz Shariat’s No Hard Feelings for Best First Feature and Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt’s No Ordinary Man for Best Canadian Feature. The winners were announced by Inside Out’s Executive Director Andria Wilson and the festival’s Director of Programming Andrew Murphy. The fest continues through October 11.

For the first time in the festival’s history, the awards were announced on opening weekend, allowing audiences the opportunity to view the films throughout the digital festival’s dates. Audience winners will be unveiled on October 12.

Read the full list of winners below.

Canadian Juried Awards

The jurors for the 2020 Canadian jury were Toronto-based Cinematographer Ashley Iris Gill, Canadian Screen Award-Winning actress Natasha Negovanlis, and writer, musician and educator Scott Jones.

Emerging Canadian Artist

Body So Fluorescent – Director, David Di Giovanni

Best Canadian Short

Swimmers – Director,...

Michael Mosley plays Jim in a new Off-Broadway production of "The Glass Menagerie." As the actor describes the iconic gentleman caller, "He has huge heart but not much between his ears. He really thinks he is helping Laura, but he's way off and ends up doing the worst possible thing, compounding an already difficult situation." After all, Mosley says, Jim is in no position to see her again. "I'd like to think that when Jim leaves their home he's learned something: that in the future he'd better shut up and check his impulses." Mosley was determined not to allow Jim to become a prop, which can easily happen; he envisions Jim as a disappointed man, despite his cocky style. And, as much as Jim has affected Laura, she has elicited troubling feelings in him that he can't quite define. "He says to her at one point, 'You make me feel sort of…...

Michael Mosley is Drew Suffin, Dr. Cox's  No. 1 guy on the ninth season of "Scrubs." Find out how Michael got there and what might be in store for his character.

After high school and a brief try at college, Michael Mosley packed up and moved to Boston with a friend. "We were in and out of youth hostels -- when we weren't sleeping in our car," laughs Mosley. Eventually he landed in New York's Academy of Dramatic Arts, which snowballed into small roles on series "The Education of Max Bickford" and "Kidnapped" and in the movie "Swimmers."

But it wasn't until Mosley's fiancee Anna Camp was cast as Sarah Newlin on "True Blood" that he finally made the trek out west to California and landed the role of Drew Suffin on "Scrubs."

It sounds like a dream job. "Everybody's been really great and really nice and just very supportive and cool,...

Skouras Films, headed by Tom Skouras, has acquired U.S. rights to Doug Sadler's Swimmers, produced by Melanie Backer, David W. Leitner and Michael Yanko. It plans to launch the film in major markets early next year. The deal was negotiated by John Manulis of VisionBox Media and Skouras. The Sundance Channel has pay TV rights in a deal negotiated by Cinetic Media. Swimmers, which played last weekend's Hamptons International Film Festival, stars Cherry Jones, Shawn Hatosy, Robert Knott, Michael Mosley, Sarah Paulson and Tara Devon Gallagher.

Doug Sadler's Swimmers was awarded the grand jury prize for best new American film at an awards ceremony held Sunday, the closing day of the 31st annual Seattle International Film Festival. A special jury prize for best new American film also was awarded to Scott Coffey's Ellie Parker, starring Naomi Watts. In the documentary field, the grand jury prize went to Walter Stokman's Based on a True Story, a recounting of the bank robbery that inspired Dog Day Afternoon. Heather Rae's Trudell, a portrait of American Indian poet John Trudell, received a special jury prize. Russian director Ilya Khrjanovsky received the grand jury prize for best new director for his film 4. Brad McGann was awarded a special jury prize for best new director for In My Father's Den.