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Throughout her storied career as the BBC's royal correspondent, Jennie Bond had some incredible encounters and experienced some of the monarchy's biggest moments first-hand. Jennie's time in the role lasted from 1989 to 2003 and saw her cover perhaps the most turbulent period of recent royal history - from marriage breakdowns to infamous interviews and from a devastating fire to deaths that rocked the world.

Concordia Studio has selected four filmmakers for its 2025 Documentary Filmmaker Fellowship, a prestigious artist development program cultivated within the independent film and television production studio co-founded by Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim.

Bruce Parry is back on our screens, diving deep into indigenous cultures in the return of Tribe. But one of his latest trips led to brutal consequences as he'll be seen vomiting on TV. The show, which originally aired from 2005 to 2007, sees the former Royal Marine-turned-adventurer reconnect with remote communities across the globe.

Bruce Parry is making a dramatic return to television after nearly ten years, starring in the revived series of Tribe, where he's faced with the harrowing task of killing a goat with his bare hands for the show.The original BBC2 series, which aired from 2005 to 2007, saw Bruce Parry explore various indigenous cultures before he ventured on to other projects.The intrepid explorer, now 55, has since presented Arctic with Bruce Parry in 2011 and released his independent film Tawai: A Voice from the Forest in 2017.Tribe is back on the BBC, with Bruce embarking on three new expeditions to some of the planet's most isolated communities in Colombia, Angola, and Indonesia. Immersing himself fully, Bruce lives alongside these indigenous peoples, embracing their traditions, participating in rituals, and even bedding down in cow dung.

Prince Harry is reflecting on the important work his late mother, Princess Diana partook in.The Duke of Sussex, 40, shared how a conversation about the Invictus Games with his son, Prince Archie, 5, went in a “different” direction and morphed into a chat about the tyke’s late grandmother, who died at age 36 in 1997.During the 2025 Invictus Games, Prince Harry spoke with CTV about how he explained the adaptive sporting competition for sick, wounded and injured service personnel and veterans to Archie and Princess Lilibet, 3.“You either shut it down straight away, which I would never do, or you engage in the conversation and you try to explain things,” Prince Harry, who is married to Meghan Markle, 43, said. “Archie was asking about landmines, so I was talking about how some of these guys [Invictus Games participants] were blown up.”He continued, “I think IEDs are probably a bit too much at this point, but I found myself talking to him about mines when he was 5 years old.”But the discussion quickly turned into how Princess Diana famously walked through a landmine field in Angola that was being cleared by the Halo Trust to raise awareness of the issue in 1997.“Interestingly, it gave me a chance to talk about my mum, his grandma, which I didn’t even really consider,” Harry recalled.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “The Alabama Solution” is one of the most powerful exposés of the inhumanity of the American prison system I’ve ever seen. Directed by Andrew Jarecki (“Capturing the Friedmans,” “The Jinx”) and Charlotte Kaufman, the movie is a scalding portrait of life on the inside that exerts a grip worthy of a thriller. It’s an investigative documentary, filmed over five years, much of it in and around the Easterling Correctional Facility in Southeast Alabama, that doesn’t merely show us the chronic abuse of prisoners.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events In director and writer Marco Calvani’s “High Tide,” well-known Brazilian actor Marco Pigossi stars as Lourenco, an immigrant living in Provincetown, the iconic gay getaway in Massachusetts. Suddenly single with his visa about to expire, he meets and falls for Maurice (James Bland), a Black doctor from New York City who is on vacation before heading to Angola for a residency. Turns out there was as much romance going on off-screen as there was on.

EXCLUSIVE: Idris Elba has signed on to headline the National Film Authority of Ghana’s second annual Africa Cinema Summit, set to run from October 7 to 10 in Accra.

Prince Harry has spent the past few days in New York, attending events close to the heart of his late mother, Princess Diana.

Prince Harry has said that Princess Diana would be "horrified" by the ongoing threat of mines to children's lives, as he spoke about the philanthropic legacy of his late mother while backing a charity dear to her heart. On Monday, 23 September, the Duke of Sussex gathered in New York for an event with the Halo Trust.The organisation, which works to clear landmines left behind from conflicts, was famously championed by Princess Diana in 1997 when she walked through a cleared minefield in Angola and called for an international ban. During the Halo Trust's recent event, Prince Harry, who marked his 40th birthday on Sunday, 15 September, saluted the charity's life-saving impact.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Germany’s Weltfilm has boarded Bolivian filmmaker Martín Boulocq’s “Criminal Body,” a work in progress (WIP) at the Santiago Intl. Film Festival’s industry section run by festival co-founder Gabriela Sandoval. Founded in 2003 by Kristina Konrad and Christian Frosch, Weltfilm has participated in co-productions with Latin America, Africa and Europe, as it seeks to produce movies of all genres, including documentaries and arthouse pics with international appeal.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Producer Dominic Barlow, whose credits include “The Last Kingdom,” “Mr. Selfridge,” and “Discovery of Witches,” has teamed up with writer-executive producer Brendan Foley on “The Angolan Clan,” which will be pitched at Toledo, Spain-based TV forum Conecta Fiction & Entertainment.

Top Chef” has always evolved in order to maintain its position as TV’s most prestigious cooking competition show. But when heading into Season 21, the Bravo mainstay had to make its greatest gear shift yet: After an international season that gathered contestants from a slew of global spinoffs in London, longtime host Padma Lakshmi announced her exit from the role after more than 15 years as the series’ grounded center.

Jennie Bond has watched royal history unfold for the last 35 years from a coveted front row seat and has witnessed some of the monarchy's most high profile scandals and events first hand. Among her memories of being familiar with Queen Elizabeth II's "icy stare" and being laughed at by the King for wearing white stilettos to stumble across a muddy field, are unbelievable stories of what happened on royal tours over the years. It was a trip to Fraser Island off the coast of Brisbane with the then-Prince Charles that makes Jennie laugh the most as she recalls what the reporters got up to in the evening.

Meghan Markle loves taking pictures and cherishing every moment of children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet's childhood. In a touching move and now in the wake of Kate Middleton's sad health news, she has reportedly set up a brand new photoshoot for them at their lavish Californian home.

Meghan Markle is making sure to capture all the special moments with her little ones, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, by setting up a new photoshoot.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer (below) for dinosaur bone trade documentary “The Bones,” which will have its world premiere at CPH:DOX as part of the festival’s Science program. The producer is Ina Fichman, Oscar nominated for “Fire of Love.” Dogwoof is handling world sales.

Callum McLennan Outside its Market, of the eleven Spanish films elected for this year’s Berlin Film Festival, five have Catalan involvement, a testament to the significant investment and creative nurturing that occurs there. Below are those five and market highlights: “Cura Sana” (Lucía G. Romero) Produced by ESCAC Films, a Generation 14plus short delving into sisters’ lives shaped by ancestral violence, exploring deep familial bonds and the lasting impact of abuse.

Sheynnis Alondra Palacios Cornejo became Miss Universe 2023, Miss Spain Athenea Paulinha Pérez was named Miss Congeniality. This award goes to the friendliest contestant and is the only honor determined by a contestant vote.Miss Philippines Michelle Dee, one of the top 10 finalists, won the award for Voice for Change alongside Miss Angola Ana Coimbra and Miss Puerto Rico Karla Guilfú.

A post shared by Sony Music Portugal (@sonymusicpt)Tavares was born in Lisbon in 1978 to parents who emigrated to Portugal from Cape Verde. She rose to fame singing Whitney Houston’s ‘One Moment in Time’ on Chuva de Estrelas, a national singing competition, in 1994.She also won the Festival da Canção that same year, the national selection contest for Eurovision.

sixth and final season of “The Crown” will include a portrayal of Princess Diana’s historic landmine walk in Africa.Netflix released images Wednesday of actress Elizabeth Debicki as the Princess of Wales, embarking on the famous moment when Diana walked across a minefield in Huambo, central Angola.Diana made the trip — just months before her death — to meet with landmine survivors to raise awareness of the work being done to clear landmines worldwide.It was one of her last and most notable acts of service in her lifetime. The Princess died tragically on August 31, 1997.In the new photos, Debicki wears a nearly-exact replica of Diana’s gold earrings, swept blonde hair, protective face mask, and a white collared shirt.