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BAFTA has announced the 2020 participants for its Newcomers Program, which for the first time has expanded to New York with first-year female participants accounting for a record 78% of the field. Forty-one individuals were inducted into the programme this year, bringing the total number of participants on the four-year initiative to 98. The combined group includes actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, composers, cinematographers, executives, art directors, production designers, animators, editors, and publicists...

Rooftop Films, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that champions independent cinema, has announced recipients of its 2020 filmmaker fund grants. The awards, consisting of 20 cash and service grants to independent filmmakers, were supported by the James Levine Foundation. Among the honorees, Lucy Walker (“Bring Your Own Brigade”) and Ben Mullinkosson (“The Last Year of Darkness”) were given then Rooftop Films Water Tower Feature Film Grants and will each receive $15,000 toward their respective feature-length documentaries...

The American Film Institute has unveiled its lineup of 124 films, adding notable titles including the documentaries “Belushi,” “Citizen Penn” and “Hopper/Welles” and the Albert and Allen Hughes thriller “Dead Presidents.” AFI Fest, which is going virtual this year without the usual glitzy Hollywood premieres at the Tcl Chinese Theatre, had announced previously that Rachel Brosnahan’s crime drama “I’m Your Woman” had been selected as its opening night title on Oct. 15. The festival also announced last month that it would close Oct. 22 with “My Psychedelic Love Story,” and host the world premieres of Kelly Oxford’s “Pink Skies Ahead” and Angel Kristi Williams’ “Really Love,” in addition to special presentations of Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer’s “Fireball” and Mira Nair’s “A Suitable Boy.”...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted on Tuesday that drive-in screenings will now count towards qualifying a film for the 93rd Oscars, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. For drive-in screenings, there will only be one screening per day required, as opposed to three for all others...

All of Ireland’s cinemas have closed for at least three weeks as new government Covid-19 regulations came into force today (October 7). The country moved into phase three of its five-phase Living With Covid-19 plan at midnight. This remains in place for the next three weeks and means no organised indoor events are permitted to take place, while museums, galleries and other cultural attractions must close...