Coming soon to streaming services are a collection of awards season players.
Amazon Prime Video
Oscar winner Regina King (If Beal Street Could Talk) makes her directorial debut with the drama film ‘One Night In Miami…’ which is released on 15 January 2021. Set in a Miami hotel room in early 1964, after Ali claimed a surprise victory over Sonny Liston, the film depicts a fictionalised gathering of activist Malcolm X, boxer Muhammad Ali, fullback Jim Brown and musician Sam Cooke and has already garnered critical acclaim. With an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and four Primetime Emmys for acting to her name, King could add more prizes in the directing categories next year.
Netflix
Vanessa Kirby won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival this year for her powerful leading performance in ‘Pieces of a Woman’, debuting on 7 January 2021, who loses her child after a home birth goes horrible wrong in this study of grief. Shia LaBeouf (The Peanut Butter Falcon), Sarah Snook (Succession television series) and Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore) also feature.
Disney+
As the Marvel Cinematic Universe expands ever farther, many of the superheroes from the Avengers films are making their way to television with the coronavirus pandemic exacerbating this move to position Disney+ on par with the traditional cinematic release. Enter ‘WandaVision’ on 15 January 2021, the first of many series on Avengers characters, with Elisabeth Olsen (Wind River) and Paul Bettany (Uncle Frank) reprising their roles.
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.
