The UK High Court in London has adjourned a decision on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can mount a final appeal to fight his extradition from the UK to the U.S. until May 20.
U.S. Prosecutors want to try Assange on charges related to WikiLeaks’s release onto the internet in 2010 of more than half a million secret government, military and diplomatic documents and other pieces of content related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Judges at the Royal Courts in London said they were seeking further assurances on Assange’s treatment in the U.S. from authorities there and would take a final decision on May 20.
They said they would give the U.S. government three weeks to provide assurances that Assange could rely on the First Amendment to the U.S. constitution, (which protects free speech); that he would not be prejudiced by reason of his Australian nationality,...
U.S. Prosecutors want to try Assange on charges related to WikiLeaks’s release onto the internet in 2010 of more than half a million secret government, military and diplomatic documents and other pieces of content related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Judges at the Royal Courts in London said they were seeking further assurances on Assange’s treatment in the U.S. from authorities there and would take a final decision on May 20.
They said they would give the U.S. government three weeks to provide assurances that Assange could rely on the First Amendment to the U.S. constitution, (which protects free speech); that he would not be prejudiced by reason of his Australian nationality,...
- 3/26/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Department of Justice and FBI are pressuring multiple British journalists to cooperate with the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, using vague threats and pressure tactics in the process. I know because I am one of the British journalists being pressured to cooperate in the case against him, as someone who used to (briefly) work and live with him, and who went on to blow the whistle on WikiLeaks’ own ethical lapses.
Assange is facing extradition to the United States from the U.K., where he is currently in Belmarsh prison in south London,...
Assange is facing extradition to the United States from the U.K., where he is currently in Belmarsh prison in south London,...
- 7/5/2023
- by James Ball
- Rollingstone.com
Grimes and Elon Musk's daughter's name is officially a lot shorter. The musician shared a photo of her daughter on Twitter on March 23, and when someone commented "omg baby sailor mars hiiii," Grimes replied, "She's Y now, or 'Why' or just '?' (But the government won't recognize that)." Y, she appeared to say, represents "curiosity, the eternal question, and such." Grimes and Musk originally named their daughter Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, though she was nicknamed Y at the time.
This isn't the first time Grimes and Elon have decided to change one of their children's names. Their first child, a boy, was originally named X Æ A-12, but they later changed it to X Æ A-Xii - though the child's legal name is X.
However, when the article was published in March 2022, Grimes tweeted that the pair had since called it quits once more. "Me and E have...
This isn't the first time Grimes and Elon have decided to change one of their children's names. Their first child, a boy, was originally named X Æ A-12, but they later changed it to X Æ A-Xii - though the child's legal name is X.
However, when the article was published in March 2022, Grimes tweeted that the pair had since called it quits once more. "Me and E have...
- 3/27/2023
- by Eden Arielle Gordon
- Popsugar.com
“Do you have any pets?” When the FBI called at Reality Winner’s Georgia home in June 2017, the agency didn’t exactly start out playing hardball; in fact it, took the better part of hour even to start getting down to brass tacks with the 25-year-old. We know this because the whole event was recorded on a hidden wire and transcribed as evidence for Winner’s subsequent trial. New York director Tina Satter first fashioned this transcript, with zero embellishment, into a critically acclaimed stage play called Is This a Room in 2019, and in Reality, which premiered in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama strand, she expands it into an astonishingly effective docu-drama hybrid.
Reality Winner’s misdemeanor didn’t quite put her in the league of Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning, and, in a way, Satter’s film leans into that. Many know the name, and perhaps also the...
Reality Winner’s misdemeanor didn’t quite put her in the league of Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning, and, in a way, Satter’s film leans into that. Many know the name, and perhaps also the...
- 2/18/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
SXSW has unveiled William Shatner, Jen Psaki and Tilda Swinton as among the latest additions to the speaker lineup for the upcoming conference and festival in Austin, Texas. The 37th annual edition of SXSW will celebrate the convergence of film, television, music and technology from March 10-19.
Other notables joining the lineup include Chef José Andrés, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard, Chelsea Manning and New Order band members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert.
Hugh Forrest, SXSW’s chief programming officer and co-president said, “Today’s speaker announcement is a fantastic milestone for the 2023 event and spotlights four additional Keynotes and numerous Featured Speakers, including influential icons and up and coming innovators.” Forrest added, “We are extremely proud to have assembled a diverse, comprehensive conference program for SXSW, and we can’t wait to share it with our community in March.”
See the full list of newly...
Other notables joining the lineup include Chef José Andrés, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard, Chelsea Manning and New Order band members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert.
Hugh Forrest, SXSW’s chief programming officer and co-president said, “Today’s speaker announcement is a fantastic milestone for the 2023 event and spotlights four additional Keynotes and numerous Featured Speakers, including influential icons and up and coming innovators.” Forrest added, “We are extremely proud to have assembled a diverse, comprehensive conference program for SXSW, and we can’t wait to share it with our community in March.”
See the full list of newly...
- 2/14/2023
- by Charna Flam
- Variety Film + TV
Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Tilda Swinton and chef José Andrés are among the next round of keynote speakers announced for South by Southwest 2023.
Event organizers announced Tuesday the next round of keynote speakers, featured speakers and keynote sessions confirmed for SXSW, which celebrates the convergence of technology, film, television, and music.
Members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-nominated rock band New Order, Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, and Gillian Gilbert, as well as Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and producer Margo Price join Chopra Jonas and Swinton as keynotes. Additional featured speakers will include Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard, Chelsea Handler, William Shatner, Chelsea Manning and more.
Previously announced Keynote speakers include Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert in conversation with Katie Couric.
Set as featured speakers for the 37th edition of the annual conference are Chair and CEO of General Motors Mary Barra; CEO, Cto, President, and co-founder of Cruise and co-founder of Twitch Kyle Vogt...
Event organizers announced Tuesday the next round of keynote speakers, featured speakers and keynote sessions confirmed for SXSW, which celebrates the convergence of technology, film, television, and music.
Members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-nominated rock band New Order, Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, and Gillian Gilbert, as well as Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and producer Margo Price join Chopra Jonas and Swinton as keynotes. Additional featured speakers will include Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard, Chelsea Handler, William Shatner, Chelsea Manning and more.
Previously announced Keynote speakers include Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert in conversation with Katie Couric.
Set as featured speakers for the 37th edition of the annual conference are Chair and CEO of General Motors Mary Barra; CEO, Cto, President, and co-founder of Cruise and co-founder of Twitch Kyle Vogt...
- 2/14/2023
- by Lexy Perez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pamela Anderson’s unlikely relationship with Julian Assange isn’t just surface level, with the actress and author expressing a profound connection with the WikiLeaks founder built on mutual respect in her memoir Love, Pamela.
The Baywatch actress detailed in her newly released book, out Tuesday (coinciding with the release of her Netflix doc Pamela, a love story), how she would regularly visit Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. She added that their friendship didn’t stop when he was sent to the supermax prison, Belmarsh, saying he requested that she be the first to visit him.
“It was a shocking experience — the five checkpoints, the shouting and screaming while we crossed through the yard” to go through a separate entrance, Anderson explained in her book. “It was the most frightening place I’ve ever visited. …[Assange] doesn’t belong there.”
Assange came under international fire in 2010 after he published several classified documents,...
The Baywatch actress detailed in her newly released book, out Tuesday (coinciding with the release of her Netflix doc Pamela, a love story), how she would regularly visit Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. She added that their friendship didn’t stop when he was sent to the supermax prison, Belmarsh, saying he requested that she be the first to visit him.
“It was a shocking experience — the five checkpoints, the shouting and screaming while we crossed through the yard” to go through a separate entrance, Anderson explained in her book. “It was the most frightening place I’ve ever visited. …[Assange] doesn’t belong there.”
Assange came under international fire in 2010 after he published several classified documents,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Clara Sorrenti has won a major victory against the group that has put her well-being under constant threat. The Twitch streamer known online as Keffals has succeeded in her mission to deplatform Kiwi Farms, a transphobic troll community that subjected her to multiple forms of online harassment.
For months, Sorrenti has sought to #DropKiwiFarms after the forum’s users organized a thorough and wide-reaching hate campaign against her. The transgender streamer was forced to flee her home in hopes of escaping her harassers, but Kiwi Farms was protected from retaliatory DDoS attacks. Sorrenti and her allies urged Cloudfare, Kiwi Farms’ cybersecurity provider, to strip its support for the notorious troll farm.
Initially, Cloudflare declined to act, with its CEO arguing that “turning off security services because we think what you publish is despicable is the wrong policy.” But as calls to #DropKiwiFarms grew louder, and notable activists like whistleblower Chelsea Manning joined Sorrenti’s cause,...
For months, Sorrenti has sought to #DropKiwiFarms after the forum’s users organized a thorough and wide-reaching hate campaign against her. The transgender streamer was forced to flee her home in hopes of escaping her harassers, but Kiwi Farms was protected from retaliatory DDoS attacks. Sorrenti and her allies urged Cloudfare, Kiwi Farms’ cybersecurity provider, to strip its support for the notorious troll farm.
Initially, Cloudflare declined to act, with its CEO arguing that “turning off security services because we think what you publish is despicable is the wrong policy.” But as calls to #DropKiwiFarms grew louder, and notable activists like whistleblower Chelsea Manning joined Sorrenti’s cause,...
- 9/7/2022
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Julian Assange is set to be extradited to the U.S. to face espionage charges.
The WikiLeaks founder’s fate was sealed by U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel Thursday after she signed an order that will see Assange face American authorities, ending a battle against extradition that he has staged for over a decade.
After consideration by Westminster Magistrates Court and the High Court, the decision was passed to Patel; Assange now has 14 days to appeal. In a statement, WikiLeaks described the move as marking a “dark day for press...
The WikiLeaks founder’s fate was sealed by U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel Thursday after she signed an order that will see Assange face American authorities, ending a battle against extradition that he has staged for over a decade.
After consideration by Westminster Magistrates Court and the High Court, the decision was passed to Patel; Assange now has 14 days to appeal. In a statement, WikiLeaks described the move as marking a “dark day for press...
- 6/17/2022
- by Rolling Stone UK
- Rollingstone.com
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The British government has ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. He is likely to appeal.
Home Secretary Priti Patel signed the extradition order Friday, her department said. It follows a British court ruling in April that Assange could be sent to the U.S.
The Home Office said in a statement that “the U.K courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr. Assange.”
“Nor have they found that extradition would be incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and to freedom of expression, and that whilst in the U.S. he will be treated appropriately, including in relation to his health.”
The decision is a big moment in Assange’s years-long battle to avoid facing trial in the U.
The British government has ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. He is likely to appeal.
Home Secretary Priti Patel signed the extradition order Friday, her department said. It follows a British court ruling in April that Assange could be sent to the U.S.
The Home Office said in a statement that “the U.K courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr. Assange.”
“Nor have they found that extradition would be incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and to freedom of expression, and that whilst in the U.S. he will be treated appropriately, including in relation to his health.”
The decision is a big moment in Assange’s years-long battle to avoid facing trial in the U.
- 6/17/2022
- by Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This review of “Enemies of the State” was first published after the film’s debut at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Was hacker Matthew DeHart a whistleblower, a spy or a child pornographer? Or some combination of the above? Watching the provocative new documentary “Enemies of the State,” your opinion may shift more than once, as director Sonia Kennebeck (“National Bird”) pursues both the elusive nature of truth and the seductive qualities of conspiracy theories.
Featuring interviews with the key players alongside dramatized re-creations — the documentary pioneer of this method, Errol Morris, acts an executive producer here — Kennebeck takes us deep inside one family’s harrowing ordeal and pulls the rug out from our assumptions and prejudices, offering an array of contradicting experts whose judgment and assertions shift in their credibility.
The facts are these: Air National Guard veteran Matt DeHart, who purports to be involved with on-line whistleblowers Anonymous and Wikileaks,...
Was hacker Matthew DeHart a whistleblower, a spy or a child pornographer? Or some combination of the above? Watching the provocative new documentary “Enemies of the State,” your opinion may shift more than once, as director Sonia Kennebeck (“National Bird”) pursues both the elusive nature of truth and the seductive qualities of conspiracy theories.
Featuring interviews with the key players alongside dramatized re-creations — the documentary pioneer of this method, Errol Morris, acts an executive producer here — Kennebeck takes us deep inside one family’s harrowing ordeal and pulls the rug out from our assumptions and prejudices, offering an array of contradicting experts whose judgment and assertions shift in their credibility.
The facts are these: Air National Guard veteran Matt DeHart, who purports to be involved with on-line whistleblowers Anonymous and Wikileaks,...
- 7/28/2021
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei spent 81 days in a Chinese prison in 2011 following a government crackdown targeting human rights lawyers, writers and advocates. His experience and that of fellow freedom fighters is reflected in his installation Trace, a series of Lego portraits memorializing 176 political prisoners from throughout the world. First exhibited on Alcatraz Island in 2014, then the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C., the show, pared down to 83 portraits, is on view at L.A.’s Skirball Cultural Center through Aug. 1 (with reservation-only, one-hour time slots).
a large portrait of the artist that’s part ...
a large portrait of the artist that’s part ...
- 5/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The United States’ rendition, torture and indefinite confinement of suspected terrorists after 9/11 remain shameful in the nation’s history, but those cases have also proved themselves difficult to dramatize, even in a film with the pedigree of “The Mauritanian.”
Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”) directs Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch in an adaptation of Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s acclaimed “Guantanamo Diary,” but the results are no more successful than previous films like “Rendition” and “Camp X-Ray” in turning this real-life horror into satisfying drama. (That sinking feeling that audiences might get at seeing the words “based on a true story” open a film is completely merited here.)
Whether it’s because these wounds are too recent and can’t be examined with historical perspective yet, or because the abuses heaped upon Guantanamo inmates are so unquestionably barbaric that there’s nothing that a narrative film can conclude about the process besides,...
Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”) directs Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch in an adaptation of Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s acclaimed “Guantanamo Diary,” but the results are no more successful than previous films like “Rendition” and “Camp X-Ray” in turning this real-life horror into satisfying drama. (That sinking feeling that audiences might get at seeing the words “based on a true story” open a film is completely merited here.)
Whether it’s because these wounds are too recent and can’t be examined with historical perspective yet, or because the abuses heaped upon Guantanamo inmates are so unquestionably barbaric that there’s nothing that a narrative film can conclude about the process besides,...
- 2/18/2021
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Editor’s Note: This episode was taped early Wednesday, before the events at the Capitol on January 6th.
In the first socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiots podcast of 2021, which was recorded before the storming of the U.S. Capitol Building, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi of the Italian newspaper il Fatto Quotidiano.
For “Democrats Suck,” Matt laments the reelection of Nancy Pelosi to the Speaker of the House.
“[Nancy Pelosi’s] role is to be a representative basically of the oligarchs, as Bernie would say.
In the first socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiots podcast of 2021, which was recorded before the storming of the U.S. Capitol Building, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi of the Italian newspaper il Fatto Quotidiano.
For “Democrats Suck,” Matt laments the reelection of Nancy Pelosi to the Speaker of the House.
“[Nancy Pelosi’s] role is to be a representative basically of the oligarchs, as Bernie would say.
- 1/9/2021
- by Reed Dunlea
- Rollingstone.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the US, a British judge has ruled.
Judge Vanessa Baraitser refused his extradition because of fears that Assange could commit suicide. The U.S. government has said that it will appeal the verdict.
U.S. prosecutors have indicted Assange on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of leaked military and diplomatic documents in 2010.
WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, as well as diplomatic cables.
Prosecutors say Assange helped the U.S. defense analyst Chelsea Manning breach the US Espionage Act. Assange has denied the claims and says there is no evidence anyone’s safety was compromised.
His lawyers argue the prosecution is politically motivated and that he is being pursued because he revealed evidence of war crimes and human rights abuses.
The U.S. non-profit Freedom of the Press Foundation...
Judge Vanessa Baraitser refused his extradition because of fears that Assange could commit suicide. The U.S. government has said that it will appeal the verdict.
U.S. prosecutors have indicted Assange on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of leaked military and diplomatic documents in 2010.
WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, as well as diplomatic cables.
Prosecutors say Assange helped the U.S. defense analyst Chelsea Manning breach the US Espionage Act. Assange has denied the claims and says there is no evidence anyone’s safety was compromised.
His lawyers argue the prosecution is politically motivated and that he is being pursued because he revealed evidence of war crimes and human rights abuses.
The U.S. non-profit Freedom of the Press Foundation...
- 1/4/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
A group of leading long-form journalists have launched a podcast studio backed by Sister, the production group run by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone and behind hit HBO/Sky drama Chernobyl.
Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis and Matthew Shaer as well as screenwriter and producer Adam Hoff have formed Campside, which will focus on premium narrative non-fiction storytelling.
Campside has formed with a “significant” start-up investment from Sister. The company has a slate of around 11 non-fiction podcasts in production or development spanning the true crime, scandal, and adventure genres.
Stacey Snider, Global Chief Executive of Sister, and the Campside quartet told Deadline how the deal came about and what they hope to achieve.
Campside’s first podcast will be a 10-part series on the Hollywood Con Queen scam, which has seen hundreds of people in town taken in by a person impersonating the likes of Amy Pascal and Kathleen Kennedy.
Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis and Matthew Shaer as well as screenwriter and producer Adam Hoff have formed Campside, which will focus on premium narrative non-fiction storytelling.
Campside has formed with a “significant” start-up investment from Sister. The company has a slate of around 11 non-fiction podcasts in production or development spanning the true crime, scandal, and adventure genres.
Stacey Snider, Global Chief Executive of Sister, and the Campside quartet told Deadline how the deal came about and what they hope to achieve.
Campside’s first podcast will be a 10-part series on the Hollywood Con Queen scam, which has seen hundreds of people in town taken in by a person impersonating the likes of Amy Pascal and Kathleen Kennedy.
- 4/28/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
London-based Pulse Films has built its business on a steady diet of slick rock docs by the likes of LCD Soundsystem and the Beastie Boys, music videos including Beyoncé’s transcendent “Lemonade” and Andrea Arnold’s feature film “American Honey.” As it readies for a transformative year, the Vice Media Group-backed outfit is rolling out its first major scripted series, Sky and Cinemax’s dizzyingly violent and stylish “Gangs of London.”
Pulse CEO Thomas Benski is as much a rock star as the veteran musicians he’s immortalized through his 16-year-old production company. The Brazil-born French executive, who works closely with creative partner and Pulse chief creative officer Lucas Ochoa, is synonymous with the edgy brand, whose early music docs have evolved into evocative non-scripted fare, including films on U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning (“Xy Chelsea”), nefarious hot yoga founder Bikram Choudhury (“Bikram”) and missing toddler Madeleine McCann.
“In our business,...
Pulse CEO Thomas Benski is as much a rock star as the veteran musicians he’s immortalized through his 16-year-old production company. The Brazil-born French executive, who works closely with creative partner and Pulse chief creative officer Lucas Ochoa, is synonymous with the edgy brand, whose early music docs have evolved into evocative non-scripted fare, including films on U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning (“Xy Chelsea”), nefarious hot yoga founder Bikram Choudhury (“Bikram”) and missing toddler Madeleine McCann.
“In our business,...
- 4/23/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
A day after federal prosecutors loyal to Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, filed charges against him for being a member of a “criminal organization,” Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept was in good enough spirits. The Brazilian government’s decision to hit him with 126 felony charges came out of the blue — he learned about it Tuesday while preparing to go horseback riding with his son.
“I was scrolling through my phone, and suddenly I see a headline, ‘Glenn Greenwald indicted …’ ” he says. “I thought, ‘What?’ ”
A day later,...
“I was scrolling through my phone, and suddenly I see a headline, ‘Glenn Greenwald indicted …’ ” he says. “I thought, ‘What?’ ”
A day later,...
- 1/23/2020
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
“American Factory” has been named the best documentary of 2019 at the 13th annual Cinema Eye Honors ceremony, which were presented on Monday evening in New York City.
The film, executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground Productions, and distributed by Netflix, is an examination of an Ohio glass factory that was taken over by a Chinese company in an uneasy cultural alliance. It prevailed in a category in which all six nominees — “American Factory,” “Apollo 11,” “For Sama,” “Honeyland,” “Midnight Family” and “One Child Nation” — are also on the Oscars shortlist for documentary features.
The “American Factory” directors, Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, also won the award for Outstanding Direction. The Outstanding Production category resulted in a tie between two films set in Syria, “The Cave” and “For Sama.”
Also Read: 'For Sama' Is Named Top Doc at Ida Documentary Awards
“Honeyland” won for cinematography,...
The film, executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground Productions, and distributed by Netflix, is an examination of an Ohio glass factory that was taken over by a Chinese company in an uneasy cultural alliance. It prevailed in a category in which all six nominees — “American Factory,” “Apollo 11,” “For Sama,” “Honeyland,” “Midnight Family” and “One Child Nation” — are also on the Oscars shortlist for documentary features.
The “American Factory” directors, Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, also won the award for Outstanding Direction. The Outstanding Production category resulted in a tie between two films set in Syria, “The Cave” and “For Sama.”
Also Read: 'For Sama' Is Named Top Doc at Ida Documentary Awards
“Honeyland” won for cinematography,...
- 1/7/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Beyonce’s “Homecoming” has landed three nominations to lead all films in the first round of noms for the Cinema Eye Honors, a New York-based awards ceremony established in 2007 to honor all aspects of nonfiction filmmaking.
In an announcement made at a luncheon in downtown Los Angeles, Cinema Eye Honors organizers unveiled nominations in seven categories, including new categories for broadcast editing and cinematography. “Homecoming” received nominations in both those new categories, as well as for the outstanding broadcast film of the year.
It faces off in that last category against “Apollo: Mission to the Moon,” “At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal,” “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” “Leaving Neverland” and “The Sentence.”
Also Read: 'Homecoming' Film Review: Beyoncé's Powerful Documentary Captures Her Once-in-a-Lifetime Coachella Triumph
Other shows with multiple nominations were the broadcast series “Salt Fat Acid Heat” and “Tricky Dick,” which received two each.
In an announcement made at a luncheon in downtown Los Angeles, Cinema Eye Honors organizers unveiled nominations in seven categories, including new categories for broadcast editing and cinematography. “Homecoming” received nominations in both those new categories, as well as for the outstanding broadcast film of the year.
It faces off in that last category against “Apollo: Mission to the Moon,” “At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal,” “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” “Leaving Neverland” and “The Sentence.”
Also Read: 'Homecoming' Film Review: Beyoncé's Powerful Documentary Captures Her Once-in-a-Lifetime Coachella Triumph
Other shows with multiple nominations were the broadcast series “Salt Fat Acid Heat” and “Tricky Dick,” which received two each.
- 10/24/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Start with the initial headline, in the story the Washington Post “broke” on September 18th:
Trump’S Communications With Foreign Leader Are Part Of Whistleblower Complaint That Spurred Standoff Between Spy Chief And Congress, Former Officials Say
The unnamed person at the center of this story sure didn’t sound like a whistleblower. Our intelligence community wouldn’t wipe its ass with a real whistleblower.
Americans who’ve blown the whistle over serious offenses by the federal government either spend the rest of their lives overseas, like Edward Snowden, end up in jail,...
Trump’S Communications With Foreign Leader Are Part Of Whistleblower Complaint That Spurred Standoff Between Spy Chief And Congress, Former Officials Say
The unnamed person at the center of this story sure didn’t sound like a whistleblower. Our intelligence community wouldn’t wipe its ass with a real whistleblower.
Americans who’ve blown the whistle over serious offenses by the federal government either spend the rest of their lives overseas, like Edward Snowden, end up in jail,...
- 10/6/2019
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
“I’m not a hero,” says Chelsea Manning toward the end of Tim Travers Hawkins’s “Xy Chelsea,” a riveting but often frustrating documentary that focuses mainly on Manning’s 2017 release from jail, where she spent seven years for sharing classified military documents. During her time in prison, Manning came out as a trans woman, and on her release, she takes delight in putting on ultra-red lipstick and growing her hair long, which was not allowed in the all-male facility where she was detained.
Manning is currently back in prison for refusing to testify to a grand jury against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks leader who released Manning’s documents and videos online after The New York Times and the Washington Post expressed no interest in this information in 2010. It is not made entirely clear in “Xy Chelsea” just what Manning feels about Assange, but she is likely martyring herself again...
Manning is currently back in prison for refusing to testify to a grand jury against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks leader who released Manning’s documents and videos online after The New York Times and the Washington Post expressed no interest in this information in 2010. It is not made entirely clear in “Xy Chelsea” just what Manning feels about Assange, but she is likely martyring herself again...
- 6/5/2019
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today sits in the Belmarsh High Security prison in southeast London. Not just for his sake but for everyone’s, we now have to hope he’s never moved from there to America.
Related: Everything Julian Assange Is Accused of, Explained
The United States filed charges against Assange early last month. The case seemed to have been designed to assuage fears that speech freedoms or the press were being targeted.
That specific offense was “computer hacking conspiracy” from back in 2010. The “crime” was absurdly thin, a...
Related: Everything Julian Assange Is Accused of, Explained
The United States filed charges against Assange early last month. The case seemed to have been designed to assuage fears that speech freedoms or the press were being targeted.
That specific offense was “computer hacking conspiracy” from back in 2010. The “crime” was absurdly thin, a...
- 5/30/2019
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
Disney’s latest live-action remake takes on Universal’s sequel and Paramount’s Elton John biopic.
This weekend’s UK box office sees Disney’s Aladdin open against Universal’s family animation sequel The Secret Life Of Pets 2 and Paramount’s Elton John biopic Rocketman.
Both Aladdin and Rocketman entered UK cinemas on Wednesday (May 22) for two days of previews prior to their opening weekend, while Pets opens today (May 24). The UK has a bank holiday on Monday (May 27), meaning the full figures will be reported on Tuesday (May 28), including Fri-Sun grosses and the extra three days.
Aladdin is...
This weekend’s UK box office sees Disney’s Aladdin open against Universal’s family animation sequel The Secret Life Of Pets 2 and Paramount’s Elton John biopic Rocketman.
Both Aladdin and Rocketman entered UK cinemas on Wednesday (May 22) for two days of previews prior to their opening weekend, while Pets opens today (May 24). The UK has a bank holiday on Monday (May 27), meaning the full figures will be reported on Tuesday (May 28), including Fri-Sun grosses and the extra three days.
Aladdin is...
- 5/24/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Disney’s latest live-action remake challenges Paramount’s Elton John biopic.
This weekend’s UK box office sees Disney’s Aladdin remake and Paramount’s Elton John biopic Rocketman open against each other.
Both titles entered UK cinemas on Wednesday (May 22) for two days of previews prior to their opening weekend. The UK has a bank holiday on Monday (May 27), meaning the full figures will be reported on Tuesday (May 28), including Fri-Sun grosses and the extra three days.
Aladdin is the latest live-action remake of a beloved Disney property to come from the studio in recent years. Beauty And The Beast remains the top performer,...
This weekend’s UK box office sees Disney’s Aladdin remake and Paramount’s Elton John biopic Rocketman open against each other.
Both titles entered UK cinemas on Wednesday (May 22) for two days of previews prior to their opening weekend. The UK has a bank holiday on Monday (May 27), meaning the full figures will be reported on Tuesday (May 28), including Fri-Sun grosses and the extra three days.
Aladdin is the latest live-action remake of a beloved Disney property to come from the studio in recent years. Beauty And The Beast remains the top performer,...
- 5/24/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange finds himself more legal trouble today as federal prosecutors have charged him with 17 new counts. Among them is an espionage charge for publishing classified information — the first such indictment ever handed down against a non-government employee by the U.S. Justice Department.
The new charges under the Espionage Act already are rankling some, including the Aclu and Citizenfour subject and Moscow reisdent Edward Snowden, on constitutional grounds. To that end, WikiLeaks responded to the indictments by tweeting: “This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment.”
This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment. https://t.co/wlhsmsenFw
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 23, 2019
A Virginia grand jury found that Assange unlawfully got then-Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning to obtain classified documents that included the names of sources who provided information to U.S. officials. Today’s...
The new charges under the Espionage Act already are rankling some, including the Aclu and Citizenfour subject and Moscow reisdent Edward Snowden, on constitutional grounds. To that end, WikiLeaks responded to the indictments by tweeting: “This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment.”
This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment. https://t.co/wlhsmsenFw
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 23, 2019
A Virginia grand jury found that Assange unlawfully got then-Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning to obtain classified documents that included the names of sources who provided information to U.S. officials. Today’s...
- 5/23/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
An intimate new documentary follows Chelsea Manning after her prison release – from a safe house in the woods to a run for the senate. ‘We had to tread carefully,’ says Tim Travers Hawkins
The night Chelsea Manning was released from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas, her first steps as a free woman were being filmed. It was May 2017 and she had just served nearly seven years of a 35-year sentence for disclosing 750,000 classified documents to Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks. “It was nerve-racking,” says the man who filmed her, the British artist and documentary-maker Tim Travers Hawkins, from his apartment in New York. “I knew it was the money shot, if you like. It was such an important historical moment.”
Related: Xy Chelsea review – extreme closeup on Chelsea Manning's complex life...
The night Chelsea Manning was released from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas, her first steps as a free woman were being filmed. It was May 2017 and she had just served nearly seven years of a 35-year sentence for disclosing 750,000 classified documents to Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks. “It was nerve-racking,” says the man who filmed her, the British artist and documentary-maker Tim Travers Hawkins, from his apartment in New York. “I knew it was the money shot, if you like. It was such an important historical moment.”
Related: Xy Chelsea review – extreme closeup on Chelsea Manning's complex life...
- 5/23/2019
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
This intimate documentary hammers home the emotional rollercoaster Manning has lived through, but is frustratingly vague on her role as a whistleblower
While the story of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and the momentous leak of documents revealing the horror of the Us military’s Iraq and Afghanistan wars has been retold in documentary and fictional movie form, the other principal player in the saga, whistleblower Chelsea Manning, has remained almost a peripheral figure. Looking at her life in closeup, as this intimate documentary does, hammers home what a strange, complex, utterly abnormal existence she has led. And what a high price she continues to pay: she is currently in prison again for refusing to testify against Assange. We do at least get a sense of Manning as a person – though at this stage, she comes across as a person still trying to get a sense of herself.
The story begins on...
While the story of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and the momentous leak of documents revealing the horror of the Us military’s Iraq and Afghanistan wars has been retold in documentary and fictional movie form, the other principal player in the saga, whistleblower Chelsea Manning, has remained almost a peripheral figure. Looking at her life in closeup, as this intimate documentary does, hammers home what a strange, complex, utterly abnormal existence she has led. And what a high price she continues to pay: she is currently in prison again for refusing to testify against Assange. We do at least get a sense of Manning as a person – though at this stage, she comes across as a person still trying to get a sense of herself.
The story begins on...
- 5/22/2019
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Chelsea Manning was sent to jail again for refusing to testify to a grand jury about WikiLeaks, The Associated Press reports.
This marks the second time since March that Manning was imprisoned for not complying with a grand jury subpoena. A judge ordered Manning back to the women’s wing of the Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia until she either agrees to testify or until the grand jury term expires in 18 months.
Manning reportedly told Judge Anthony Trenga that she objected to grand juries in principle. She also argued that...
This marks the second time since March that Manning was imprisoned for not complying with a grand jury subpoena. A judge ordered Manning back to the women’s wing of the Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia until she either agrees to testify or until the grand jury term expires in 18 months.
Manning reportedly told Judge Anthony Trenga that she objected to grand juries in principle. She also argued that...
- 5/16/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Chelsea Manning was released from prison a month following her refusal to testify before the grand jury in the WikiLeaks case. Manning, a former military intelligence analyst, was convicted of leaking hundreds of classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. She was sentenced to 35 years in prison, but she had her sentence reduced to seven […]
The post Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Faces New Subpoena appeared first on uInterview.
The post Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Faces New Subpoena appeared first on uInterview.
- 5/11/2019
- by Irvin Vita
- Uinterview
How do we honor an icon when so little truth is known about his life? If Kenneth Branagh’s earnest Shakespearean biopic is any guide, we would do best to stick with the Bard’s own works. Indeed, it’s hard to watch “All Is True” without noticing what’s missing most: the nimble wit and profound insight we’ve already seen in Branagh’s own Shakespearean adaptations.
One can certainly empathize with the director’s desire to dig more deeply, after 35 years of committing the Bard of Avon’s work to stage and screen so successfully. But in the end, this fictionalized biography primarily reminds us how rare its subject’s talents really were.
As depicted by screenwriter Ben Elton, Shakespeare (Branagh) comes home to Stratford in 1613, hoping for a quiet retirement. He has been devastated by a recent fire, which burned his beloved Globe Theatre to the ground.
One can certainly empathize with the director’s desire to dig more deeply, after 35 years of committing the Bard of Avon’s work to stage and screen so successfully. But in the end, this fictionalized biography primarily reminds us how rare its subject’s talents really were.
As depicted by screenwriter Ben Elton, Shakespeare (Branagh) comes home to Stratford in 1613, hoping for a quiet retirement. He has been devastated by a recent fire, which burned his beloved Globe Theatre to the ground.
- 5/8/2019
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Former HBO Films senior vice president Maria Zuckerman has joined Topic Studios as the company’s new executive vice president, Topic announced Monday.
Zuckerman will head up Topic Studios’ overall strategy, including development, financing and production on feature films, documentaries, TV, podcasts and digital programming. Although she’ll be be based at Topic Studios’ New York City headquarters, she will also be working extensively out of the company’s new L.A. office and will report to Michael Bloom, the CEO of Topic Studios and its parent company First Look Media.
Zuckerman spent nearly 20 years at HBO, where she oversaw production of more than 30 titles which earned a combined 92 Emmy nominations and 17 wins, including three Best Movie/Miniseries. Projects under her supervision also received 22 Golden Globe nominations, 23 BAFTA nominations and numerous other awards. In 2010, she received the Risk Taker Award from the Women’s Expressive Theatre.
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Zuckerman will head up Topic Studios’ overall strategy, including development, financing and production on feature films, documentaries, TV, podcasts and digital programming. Although she’ll be be based at Topic Studios’ New York City headquarters, she will also be working extensively out of the company’s new L.A. office and will report to Michael Bloom, the CEO of Topic Studios and its parent company First Look Media.
Zuckerman spent nearly 20 years at HBO, where she oversaw production of more than 30 titles which earned a combined 92 Emmy nominations and 17 wins, including three Best Movie/Miniseries. Projects under her supervision also received 22 Golden Globe nominations, 23 BAFTA nominations and numerous other awards. In 2010, she received the Risk Taker Award from the Women’s Expressive Theatre.
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- 5/6/2019
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
With the imprecisely assembled “Xy Chelsea,” multimedia artist-cum-filmmaker Tim Travers Hawkins makes a bold yet mostly fruitless attempt to tell the infamous whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s remarkable story. While it’s hardly Hawkins’ error that his documentary feels unfinished — the self-defined activist’s dramatic saga is still unfolding as we speak — you can’t help but feel his unprecedented access to Manning should have emanated a portrait a lot more enlightening.
This is not to say Hawkins doesn’t give a sincere shot to understanding his complex subject. Born in Oklahoma in 1987 and raised by heavy-drinking parents, the former U.S. Army soldier and intelligence analyst Manning was arrested in 2010 for leaking thousands of sensitive documents, a decision she made after witnessing a series of war crimes in Iraq. During her jail time of seven years, she came out as a trans woman and was released in 2017 upon a Presidential pardon...
This is not to say Hawkins doesn’t give a sincere shot to understanding his complex subject. Born in Oklahoma in 1987 and raised by heavy-drinking parents, the former U.S. Army soldier and intelligence analyst Manning was arrested in 2010 for leaking thousands of sensitive documents, a decision she made after witnessing a series of war crimes in Iraq. During her jail time of seven years, she came out as a trans woman and was released in 2017 upon a Presidential pardon...
- 5/5/2019
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
"I wanted to be treated like a human being." Showtime + Dogwoof have debuted an official trailer for the indie documentary Xy Chelsea, which just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The doc film is a look at the life and experiences of Chelsea Manning, a trans woman soldier in the United States Army, who was sentenced to serve 35 years at an all-male military prison for leaking information about the country's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Everyone knows her name, but how many people really know her real story? Who she really is? Not only does it cover her story about getting data out to Wikileaks, it also examines her place in the conversation on national security and the fight of the transgender community for rights and visibility. Here's the two official trailers (+ a poster) for Tim Travers Hawkins' doc Xy Chelsea, from YouTube: Shot over two years and...
- 5/3/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Phillip Youmans’ “Burning Cane” took home the Founders Award for best narrative feature at the 18th annual Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday, with star Wendell Pierce earning Best Actor.
Youmans, a 19-year-old freshman at NYU, is the first African-American director to win the Founders Award and the youngest director to have a feature in Tribeca — he was just 17 when he wrote, directed and shot the film, about the fractious relationship between a mother and son in rural Louisiana.
Korean director Bora Kim’s “House of Hummingbird” won for best international narrative feature, and Ji-hu Park won best international actress.
In addition, Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin won for their documentary feature “Scheme Birds.”
Here’s the complete list of winners.
Also Read: 'Xy Chelsea' Film Review: Doc Tackles Chelsea Manning's Very In-Progress Story
U.S. Narrative Competition Categories:
The jurors for the 2019 U.S. Narrative Competition were Lucy Alibar,...
Youmans, a 19-year-old freshman at NYU, is the first African-American director to win the Founders Award and the youngest director to have a feature in Tribeca — he was just 17 when he wrote, directed and shot the film, about the fractious relationship between a mother and son in rural Louisiana.
Korean director Bora Kim’s “House of Hummingbird” won for best international narrative feature, and Ji-hu Park won best international actress.
In addition, Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin won for their documentary feature “Scheme Birds.”
Here’s the complete list of winners.
Also Read: 'Xy Chelsea' Film Review: Doc Tackles Chelsea Manning's Very In-Progress Story
U.S. Narrative Competition Categories:
The jurors for the 2019 U.S. Narrative Competition were Lucy Alibar,...
- 5/2/2019
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
"I love coming-of-age stories," says Chelsea Manning near the start of the documentary Xy Chelsea, a Tribeca Film Festival world premiere soon to debut on Showtime. There are notes of wistfulness and defensiveness in how this former soldier/whistleblower — who uploaded caches of classified documents and video to Julian Assange's WikiLeaks website in 2010, and came out as a trans woman after she was arrested for her actions — utters those words, since she herself is stuck in something of a soul-sucking rut.
Director Tim Travers Hawkins adopts many of the same dissociative techniques utilized by executive ...
Director Tim Travers Hawkins adopts many of the same dissociative techniques utilized by executive ...
"I love coming-of-age stories," says Chelsea Manning near the start of the documentary Xy Chelsea, a Tribeca Film Festival world premiere soon to debut on Showtime. There are notes of wistfulness and defensiveness in how this former soldier/whistleblower — who uploaded caches of classified documents and video to Julian Assange's WikiLeaks website in 2010, and came out as a trans woman after she was arrested for her actions — utters those words, since she herself is stuck in something of a soul-sucking rut.
Director Tim Travers Hawkins adopts many of the same dissociative techniques utilized by executive ...
Director Tim Travers Hawkins adopts many of the same dissociative techniques utilized by executive ...
Chelsea Manning, the whistleblower who was incarcerated for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks while serving in the Army, is the subject of the documentary Xy Chelsea, which chronicles her release from prison, her gender transition and her activism in the years following her incarceration.
On March 8, Manning was sent back to prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury in the trial of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday night, her legal team expressed concern for her well-being.
"I’m very concerned for Chelsea. I’m concerned for her being in prison obviously,...
On March 8, Manning was sent back to prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury in the trial of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday night, her legal team expressed concern for her well-being.
"I’m very concerned for Chelsea. I’m concerned for her being in prison obviously,...
Chelsea Manning, the whistleblower who was incarcerated for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks while serving in the Army, is the subject of the documentary Xy Chelsea, which chronicles her release from prison, her gender transition and her activism in the years following her incarceration.
On March 8, Manning was sent back to prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury in the trial of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday night, her legal team expressed concern for her well-being.
"I’m very concerned for Chelsea. I’m concerned for her being in prison obviously,...
On March 8, Manning was sent back to prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury in the trial of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday night, her legal team expressed concern for her well-being.
"I’m very concerned for Chelsea. I’m concerned for her being in prison obviously,...
John Oliver, the latest late-night TV show host to tackle Julian Assange’s arrest by British police from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, is the first to call WikiLeaks’ founder “the most controversial Australian export since Vegemite.”
After nearly seven years holed up at the embassy, Brit police literally carried him out like a rolled up carpet on Thursday.
Oliver was among those who noticed CNN’s initial coverage focused on Assange’s “bedraggled beard,” “lengthy hair,” and that he looked “tired” and “much older” than he did when he first entered the embassy, calling it “a weird tone to take on a story that is this important.”
“His arrest sparks a difficult debate about the efficacy of journalistic protections in the age of cyber espionage, but look how bad he looks! He like a peeled potato rolled in spider webs! He looks like Kenneth Branagh’s ghost!” Oliver mocked.
After nearly seven years holed up at the embassy, Brit police literally carried him out like a rolled up carpet on Thursday.
Oliver was among those who noticed CNN’s initial coverage focused on Assange’s “bedraggled beard,” “lengthy hair,” and that he looked “tired” and “much older” than he did when he first entered the embassy, calling it “a weird tone to take on a story that is this important.”
“His arrest sparks a difficult debate about the efficacy of journalistic protections in the age of cyber espionage, but look how bad he looks! He like a peeled potato rolled in spider webs! He looks like Kenneth Branagh’s ghost!” Oliver mocked.
- 4/15/2019
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
Julian Assange was arrested in England on Thursday. Though nothing has been announced, there are reports he may be extradited to the United States to face charges related to Obama-era actions.
Here’s the Washington Post on the subject of prosecuting Assange:
“A conviction would also cause collateral damage to American media freedoms. It is difficult to distinguish Assange or WikiLeaks from The Washington Post.”
That passage is from a 2011 editorial, “Why the U.S. Shouldn’t Try Julian Assange.”
The Post editorial of years back is still relevant because...
Here’s the Washington Post on the subject of prosecuting Assange:
“A conviction would also cause collateral damage to American media freedoms. It is difficult to distinguish Assange or WikiLeaks from The Washington Post.”
That passage is from a 2011 editorial, “Why the U.S. Shouldn’t Try Julian Assange.”
The Post editorial of years back is still relevant because...
- 4/11/2019
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
Pamela Anderson is not mincing her words. Overnight, news broke of Julian Assange's arrest in London. According to the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, he was arrested in connection with a federal charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for allegedly agreeing to break a password to a classified U.S. government computer. The charge stems from alleged 2010 behavior involving Chelsea Manning. Assange was also reportedly wanted in Britain for skipping bail in August 2012. Video has shown the 47-year-old WikiLeaks founder being taken out of the Ecuadorian Embassy by authorities in London, where he had sought asylum since...
- 4/11/2019
- E! Online
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London Thursday partly on a U.S. extradition warrant after Ecuador withdrew the asylum it had granted him in 2012, The New York Times reports.
Last November, a prosecutor accidentally revealed that Assange had been indicted in relation to the 2010 publication of classified documents and videos about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as confidential messages between diplomats. Per the Justice Department, Assange faces federal hacking charges and is accused of helping Chelsea Manning crack a password stored on Department of Defense computers.
Last November, a prosecutor accidentally revealed that Assange had been indicted in relation to the 2010 publication of classified documents and videos about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as confidential messages between diplomats. Per the Justice Department, Assange faces federal hacking charges and is accused of helping Chelsea Manning crack a password stored on Department of Defense computers.
- 4/11/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in London as the result of a U.S. extradition request and is headed to court.
Assange was arrested inside the Ecuadorean Embassy after taking refuge seven years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault that has since been dropped.
The British Metropolitan Police revealed that he was arrested for “failing to surrender” and following an extradition request to the U.S.
“Julian Assange, 47, has today, Thursday 11 April, been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (Mps) at the Embassy of Ecuador, Hans Crescent, SW1 on a warrant issued by Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 29 June 2012, for failing to surrender to the court. He has been taken into custody at a central London police station where he will remain, before being presented before Westminster Magistrates’ Court as soon as is possible. The Mps had a duty to execute the warrant,...
Assange was arrested inside the Ecuadorean Embassy after taking refuge seven years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault that has since been dropped.
The British Metropolitan Police revealed that he was arrested for “failing to surrender” and following an extradition request to the U.S.
“Julian Assange, 47, has today, Thursday 11 April, been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (Mps) at the Embassy of Ecuador, Hans Crescent, SW1 on a warrant issued by Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 29 June 2012, for failing to surrender to the court. He has been taken into custody at a central London police station where he will remain, before being presented before Westminster Magistrates’ Court as soon as is possible. The Mps had a duty to execute the warrant,...
- 4/11/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
7:16 Am Pt -- The U.S. Justice Department has accused Assange of conspiring with Chelsea Manning to hack a classified Pentagon computer. Pam Anderson is enraged with Britain, The United States and President Trump after the arrest of her close friend Julian Assange. Assange was arrested Thursday at the Ecuadorean Embassy in the UK after the country withdrew his asylum. Anderson went on a tear on Twitter Thursday morning, saying, "How could you Ecuador?...
- 4/11/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Dogwoof has acquired international sales rights to Tim Travers Hawkins’ “Xy Chelsea,” an intimate portrait of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who was recently incarcerated after refusing to testify in the WikiLeaks case.
Manning was was sentenced to 35 years at a maximum-security prison for leaking classified military information to WikiLeaks in 2013. Four years later, then-President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s sentence as one of the final acts of his presidency.
The documentary, which will have its world premiere at Tribeca, follows Manning as she prepares her transition to living life for the first time as a free woman. Hawkins was granted exclusive and intimate access to Manning after her release from military prison.
Produced by Pulse Films, “Xy Chelsea” will air on Showtime in North America in June, following its release in the U.K. on May 24.
“‘Xy Chelsea’ is a challenging documentary that speaks to many troubling phenomena of our times,...
Manning was was sentenced to 35 years at a maximum-security prison for leaking classified military information to WikiLeaks in 2013. Four years later, then-President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s sentence as one of the final acts of his presidency.
The documentary, which will have its world premiere at Tribeca, follows Manning as she prepares her transition to living life for the first time as a free woman. Hawkins was granted exclusive and intimate access to Manning after her release from military prison.
Produced by Pulse Films, “Xy Chelsea” will air on Showtime in North America in June, following its release in the U.K. on May 24.
“‘Xy Chelsea’ is a challenging documentary that speaks to many troubling phenomena of our times,...
- 4/3/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Chelsea Manning documentary Xy Chelsea, which premieres at Tribeca and will air in the U.S. on Showtime in June, has been picked up for international sales by UK documentary specialist Dogwoof.
Produced by Pulse Films and executive-produced by Laura Poitras, director Tim Travers Hawkins’ feature is an intimate portrait of Manning after her initial release from military prison. The whistleblower and former soldier was convicted by court martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionages Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified or sensitive military and diplomatic documents. The trans activist had her 35-year sentence in an all-male maximum security prison commuted by President Obama in 2017 but was sent back to prison this year for contempt of court.
Pic was co-financed by the BFI, Field of Vision and Topic Studio and was written by Mark Monroe, Tim Travers Hawkins, Enat Sidi and Andrea Scott. Producers are Julia Nottingham,...
Produced by Pulse Films and executive-produced by Laura Poitras, director Tim Travers Hawkins’ feature is an intimate portrait of Manning after her initial release from military prison. The whistleblower and former soldier was convicted by court martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionages Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified or sensitive military and diplomatic documents. The trans activist had her 35-year sentence in an all-male maximum security prison commuted by President Obama in 2017 but was sent back to prison this year for contempt of court.
Pic was co-financed by the BFI, Field of Vision and Topic Studio and was written by Mark Monroe, Tim Travers Hawkins, Enat Sidi and Andrea Scott. Producers are Julia Nottingham,...
- 4/3/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Film will have world premiere at Tribeca.
UK-based documentary specialists Dogwoof have acquired all international sales rights excluding North America to Xy Chelsea, a feature about American military whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
Dogwoof has planned a UK release for May 24, following from the film’s world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival on May 1. Showtime has North American rights on the title and has planned a Us release for June.
Directed by British director Tim Travers Hawkins and produced by the UK’s Pulse Films, the film follows Manning after President Barack Obama commuted her 35 year prison sentence for leaking classified military information to WikiLeaks,...
UK-based documentary specialists Dogwoof have acquired all international sales rights excluding North America to Xy Chelsea, a feature about American military whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
Dogwoof has planned a UK release for May 24, following from the film’s world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival on May 1. Showtime has North American rights on the title and has planned a Us release for June.
Directed by British director Tim Travers Hawkins and produced by the UK’s Pulse Films, the film follows Manning after President Barack Obama commuted her 35 year prison sentence for leaking classified military information to WikiLeaks,...
- 4/3/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Chelsea Manning, who was imprisoned for sharing government secrets with WikiLeaks, is back in jail after refusing to testify before a grand jury about Julian Assange’s organization. A federal judge, Claude H. Hilton, found her in contempt of court, The New York Times reported, and she was subsequently taken to the women’s wing of Alexandria, Virginia’s federal detention center.
“In solidarity with many activists facing the odds, I will stand by my principles,” she told the press Thursday. “I will exhaust every legal remedy available. My legal...
“In solidarity with many activists facing the odds, I will stand by my principles,” she told the press Thursday. “I will exhaust every legal remedy available. My legal...
- 3/8/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The 18th annual Tribeca Film Festival has revealed its lineup of 103 feature films.
Standout titles include world premieres of a hybrid narrative-documentary film about John DeLorean (starring Alec Baldwin); an Antoine Fuqua-directed documentary about Muhammad Ali; and a portrait of Chelsea Manning; and films starring Margot Robbie, Elijah Wood and Billy Crystal. Christoph Waltz’s directorial debut, Georgetown, offers a cast including Annette Bening, Vanessa Redgrave and Corey Hawkins, in a world premiere.
The always-comprehensive Tribeca offerings also include a must for film buffs and tech geeks, Making Waves: The Art of Sound in Films. The documentary features Walter Murch, Ben Burtt, Gary Rydstrom, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand and Ryan Coogler. As with a large number of screenings at Tribeca, Making Waves will feature a conversation after the end credits, a master-class conversation featuring Burtt and Rydstrom.
The festival, which this year runs April 24 to May 5, also...
Standout titles include world premieres of a hybrid narrative-documentary film about John DeLorean (starring Alec Baldwin); an Antoine Fuqua-directed documentary about Muhammad Ali; and a portrait of Chelsea Manning; and films starring Margot Robbie, Elijah Wood and Billy Crystal. Christoph Waltz’s directorial debut, Georgetown, offers a cast including Annette Bening, Vanessa Redgrave and Corey Hawkins, in a world premiere.
The always-comprehensive Tribeca offerings also include a must for film buffs and tech geeks, Making Waves: The Art of Sound in Films. The documentary features Walter Murch, Ben Burtt, Gary Rydstrom, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand and Ryan Coogler. As with a large number of screenings at Tribeca, Making Waves will feature a conversation after the end credits, a master-class conversation featuring Burtt and Rydstrom.
The festival, which this year runs April 24 to May 5, also...
- 3/5/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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