Tag: Hold Me (If You Want)

2026 Oxbelly Screenwriters Fellows: Mounia Akl, Diego Céspedes & Celine Devaux Sophomore Projects Selected

Costa Brava, Lebanon's Mounia Akl, Everybody Loves Jeanne's Celine Devaux and The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo's Diego Céspedes are among the baker's dozen...

Interview: Mounia Akl – Hold Me (If You Want) (Work in Progress)

Exploring the intimate intersections of family, memory, and social constraint, often focusing on characters caught between personal desire and inherited structures, we first met...

2025 Marrakech Film Festival: New Projects by Scandar Copti, Mounia Akl & Amjad Al Rasheed at the Atlas Workshops

Before the Marrakech Film Festival unveil their 2025 line-up, we have learned the films that are the make up of the Atlas Workshops (November...

2025 TorinoFilmLab ScriptLab: Anna Hints, Mounia Akl & Matthew Puccini Selected

Another vital writer's retreat on the film festival circuit unveiled their invites today - Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (TFL) selected a sweet sixteen film project for...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.