Coming to a cinema near you, as well as streaming services, are the first awards season projects for your consideration.
Cinema
After solving the impossible case of the ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ three years ago, Kenneth Branagh (Tenet) returns as Agatha Christie’s Poirot to do it again as a ‘Death on the Nile’ causes a storm surge on a calm river. Who are the suspects? What are their motives? Armie Hammer (Call Me by Your Name), Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman), Annette Bening (American Beauty), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), as well as Dawn French (The Vicar of Dibley) and Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous), are all aboard and have secrets to hide. Set sail for a fatal voyage only in cinemas on 23 October 2020.
Netflix
Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) made his directorial debut with the 2017 crime drama ‘Molly’s Game’ and received another Oscar nomination for his adapted screenplay. Now he returns as writer-director for the legal drama ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’, releasing on 16 October 2020, which follows the group protesting the Vietnam War that were charged with conspiracy in 1969. Oscar nominees Sacha Baron Cohen (The Spy), Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl), Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies), Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon), William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman) and Michael Keaton (Spotlight) are the big names in a big ensemble cast.
Disney+
Of the 16 nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series, that the first series of ‘The Mandalorian’ received at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, which were held virtually from 14 to 20 September 2020, it won seven trophies while the second series will debut on 30 October 2020. As the Star Wars universe expands ever farther, prepare for more adventures in a galaxy far, far away.
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.
By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.
