ACORN TV
Programming from several countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Ireland, New Zealand, and UK. AMC Networks chief Josh Sapan told The Hollywood Reporter that Acorn TV has "among the lowest churn" among major services owing to its focus as well as viewers' "dedication and affinity" for its content.

Working with the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX), Spain’s ICAA state agency for cinema and the audiovisual arts, part of its Ministry of Culture, will put up €6 million ($7 million) as export aid to push the sales of Spanish films abroad, said ICAA director Beatriz Navas. “This is not an opportunity, this is the opportunity, we can’t miss this train,” said Carlos Rosado, president of the Spain Film Commission....

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will open its doors Sept. 30. Located on the LACMA campus on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, the museum occupies the moderne-style former May Co. department store along with an impressive giant glass dome designed by architect Renzo Piano. Bill Kramer (director and president, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures), called the 300,000-square-foot complex “an instant landmark … a must-see destination for residents and visitors alike” in the world capital of filmmaking...

The Beijing Film Academy, cradle of the country’s top filmmaking talent, last week opened a major new campus in the capital’s northern Huairou district, an hour’s drive outside the urban center. At an outdoor opening ceremony, more than 1,000 new students sat in socially distanced rows to hear speeches from local government officials, administrators and notable alumni. Following a string of celebrity scandals, Chinese officials have told young filmmakers entering China’s top film school that their foremost task is to develop the “moral cultivation” necessary to further China’s rise in the world...

Sundance Institute and Sandbox Films announced 12 filmmakers who will be in the next batch to receive support Sfor their projects, along with eight films selected to receive unrestricted and non-recoupable grants totaling $255,000, through the Sandbox Fund. The Sandbox Fund aims to elevate the voices of independent artists working in the realm of science and nonfiction storytelling as they produce and promote work and discourse the highlights that overlap science and art in the U.S. and abroad....

The fourth edition of the Animation Is Film festival (Aif) returns in-person October 22-24 to the Tcl Chinese 6 in Hollywood, and will kick off opening night with the North American premiere of Netflix’s “The Summit of the Gods,” the breathtaking French 2D feature from director Patrick Imbert (“The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales”), who will do an in-person “The Summit of the Gods” (opening November 24 in select theaters and streaming November 30) is adapted from the popular manga and concerns a Japanese adventure photographer and mountain climber ...