Shanghai Film Festival sets dates; Tolley Shields Leaves Netflix; ‘Ralph & Katie’ training; Sweet Tooth Prices – Global Briefs

The Shanghai Film Festival is setting dates for the return as a personal event

The Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has confirmed that this year’s edition will be held from June 9 to 18, 2023, returning the festival to an in-person event after last year’s cancellation. The festival was scheduled to take place as a physical event in June 2022, but had to be canceled shortly before it began due to strict lockdown restrictions imposed on the city of Shanghai as Covid-19 levels began to rise. It was previously announced that SIFF Market, the festival’s operating platform, would move to the Longemont Hotel, bringing it closer to SIFF’s main venue, the Shanghai Film Art Center, and the neighboring Crowne Plaza Hotel. As in previous years, the festival organizes various parts of the Golden Goblet (Jinjue) Awards competition, including feature films, Asian new talent, documentaries, animation and short films. SIFF organizers said they received nearly 8,800 entries from more than 128 countries, about half of which were destined for last year’s canceled edition. Other sections include the Belt and Road Film Festival Alliance, a Project Fair and a Metavers event.

Tolley Shields is leaving Netflix

Tolley Shields has left her role as Netflix’s EMEA director of awards after five years. Shields joined Netflix in March 2018 after stints at DDA, where she led the launch of the company’s first awards and special projects division, and at The Weinstein Company, where she was publicity manager. Shields was part of the Netflix team that managed the streamer’s campaigns for international titles such as Jane Campions The power of the dogAlfonso Cuaros Rome, and most recently the German-language epic No news from the western front by Edward Berger. The film won four Oscars and seven BAFTAs.

‘Ralph & Katie’ Team Forge Disability Training Videos

The team behind the BBC drama Ralph and Kate has teamed up with ITV Studios and TripleC to produce a series of disability drama production training videos. The fully accessible videos are the first of their kind, according to ITV Studios, and are aimed at aspiring technicians and creatives who want to learn more about drama production. Produced by ITV Studios and Keshet Productions in association with Tiger Aspect Productions, Ralph and Kate was written by a disabled typist under the supervision of Peter Bowker. The show was a spin-off of the BBC One drama The A word. TripleC is a disability networking community for creative people. The beginning of the training videos are part of the Ralph and Kate HETV Remote Trainee Programme, funded by the BBC and ITV Studios and hosted by Cherylee Houston MBE and Melissa Johns (British actresses and disability advocates) from TripleC and chair Laurence Clark (award-winning stand-up comedian and screenwriter). The program offered 30 deaf, disabled, autistic and neurodivergent talents the opportunity to go behind the scenes of the series. Johns said, “This industry and the stories we tell will only continue to be richer with more voices, and by failing to include deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent creatives, we are missing out on a tremendous amount of talent, lived experience and fair representation.”

Reports show “Sweet Tooth” S1 contributed $41.3 million to New Zealand’s GDP

Production of the first season of the fantasy series sweet tooth contributed more than NZ$66 million (US$41.3 million) to the New Zealand economy, according to a study by Oxford Economics for the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Australia-New Zealand Screen Association (ANZSA). The series, produced by Warner Bros Television for Netflix, also created 1,180 full-time and part-time jobs in New Zealand, with New Zealanders making up 95% of the crew and 80% of the cast, according to the report. The study found that for every dollar paid back by the NZSPG (New Zealand Screen Production Grant), almost $7 in economic activity was generated, putting money in the hands of New Zealand screen workers and opportunities for small businesses across the country created.” says ANZSA Managing Director Paul Müller. Just over half of New Zealand’s spending went to more than 950 local suppliers of goods and services, accounting for 54% or NZ$25 million (US$15.7 million) of spending. The remaining 46% was spent on wages and salaries for local production crews and related workers. sweet tooth Season 1 was filmed in the New Zealand districts of Auckland, Waikato and Otago in 2020.