Counties through today compared with yesterday. Showers in the south will head further north with rumbles of thunder, East Anglia, midlands, most persistent towards South And East wales and across the South West of england. To the south of it, some humid air tonight, fresh conditions but a bright start to monday for scotland, the north of england and ireland. A Fine Day on monday, starting with outbreaks of rain across the midlands, wales, the South West, turning a bit dry but then some heavy and thundery showers developing again later in the day across southern wales and southern england. Much of the country from the Midlands Northwards is dry and pleasant enough when the sun is out. See you soon. This is Bbc News. The headlines. After the revelations of kissing a colleague in his office, the Uk Health Secretary Matt Hancock resigns, with an apology for breaching coronavirus guidance. Classified Ministry Of Defence documents containing details about Hms Defender and the british military have been found at a Bus Stop in kent. The Death Toll from collapsed Apartment Block in miami rises to five as Rescue Teams continue to try to search for survivors. Grab a Jab Half of all adults under 30 in england will have had their first Covid Vaccine by The End of the day. Now on Bbc News, Talking Movies Reports from New York on the 20th anniversary of Screen Legend Robert De Niro� s Tribeca Festival. Hello from New York, im Tom Brook and welcome to Talking Movies. In todays programme, we look back at highlights of this months Tribeca Festival, which took place here In The City. Numerous screenings were held outdoors and films are made available virtually too. It marked a milestone, the festival, the first in Person Film Festival in North America since the start of the pandemic. Its certainly fair to say that this years Tribeca Festival could be judged a success. The Tribeca Festivals bold presence gave the city a big psychological boost, especially in the washington heights neighbourhood, where the World Premiere of the festivals opening Night Film In The Heights was held. This lavish musical set in the Dominican Community In Washington Heights is based on Lin Manuel Mirandas Award winning broadway stage musical. It is centred on a Bodega Or Grocery Store Owner who dreams of a better life. This story is told through the scope of a neighbourhood, a neighbourhood like any other neighbourhood that is so often overlooked, but is filled with people that have contributed so much to this country, and you get to see those people dream as big as anyone you have ever seen dream on a screen. Woefully underrepresented in american mainstream cinema, many latinos hope that In The Heights, if successful, would bring forth greater opportunities. You know, the hope for me is that in five years, people go, why was In The Heights such a big deal . We have ten latino movies every year now. That would be a dream come true. To be quaint would be a dream come true. In The Heights got good reviews, but sadly it didnt perform well at the Box Office. The reason i think that happened, its not really branded like a big global musical, like Les Miserables or mamma mia. Its not a Brand Name in that sense. It was a broadway hit. I would hate to think in the Heights Lack of Box Office mojo would affect the ability of hollywood people to go for Diversity Or Latino casting. In The Heights launched what was of course the latest edition of a 20 year old Tribeca Festival, co founded by Movie Legend Robert De Niro and film producerjane rosenthal. They are proud of what they brought to New Yorkers. We are the first in Person Film Festival in North America, the first major event in all five boroughs In The City and hopefully we are part of the emotional, joyous, coming out party that celebrates artists and all of our humanity and being a place to gather again. Tribecas Line Up was socially aware. Juneteenth, which became an official federal holiday during the festival, celebrating the emancipation of those enslaved in the united states, was marked by films highlighting black stories and storytellers. Several films had an arab focus, movies made by people of colour, women, Colour And Lgbtq Film Makers were well represented. Director Steven Soderbergh had crime drama, no sudden move and there was a special documentary on the late chef anthony bourdain. Documentaries were among the stronger offerings at the 12 day event. Tribeca co founder Robert De Niro sees his festival with its broad slate bringing his city together after the peoples of the pandemic and social tumult of the last year. Film is a way of creating that, promoting that, the idea that we are all the same, we are different but the same. And were all in it together. The Tribeca Festival came into being 20 years ago, partly as a civic restoration project, co led by Robert De Niro to rebuild New Yorks Tribeca Neighbourhood in the wake of the September The 11th attacks on the nearby World Trade Center towers. In the Heights Cinematographer Alice brookes saw the festival playing a similar role in new York City today, Hit Hard by the pandemic. Being able to start to come out of this pandemic and have one of the first big premieres in New York at tribeca is another healing thing. Strangely, although tribeca takes place in one of the worlds great capitals and cosmopolitan culture, it doesnt usually screen brilliant Art Films and well known auteurs. It can be a bit parochial. But film wasnt the only focus this year. Tribeca redefined itself, adding Video Games and podcasts to its Line Up. It rechristened itself. Its no longer the Tribeca Film festival, just the Tribeca Festival. I think we are facing reality. What is reality . Its everything. Its podcasts, its filmed entertainment across all sorts of platforms. Its vr, its not, its Television And Series and episodics, its not film, its not the two Hour Film any more and by the way, the two hour narrative film, In The Heights aside, probably the least interesting part of this festival. In august 1969, i was a slightly awkward Hippyish16 Year old schoolboy in london, and one place i really wanted to be was woodstock in New York, about 110 miles north of where im standing right now, for what was an amazing Music Festival. But what i learned from the Tribeca Festival this year, through a documentary, is that there was another lesser known Music Festival taking place at the same time, that included some spellbinding performances from black artists people like stevie wonder, Gladys Knight and the pips and nina simone. Tristan daley reports. Nobody ever heard of the harlem culture festival. Summer of soul, or when the revolution could not be televised, is a documentary all about the harlem cultural festival. An event in which some musical legends performed to Hundreds Of Thousands of attendees over the course of six weekends in the summer of 1969. The festival took place in New Yorks harlem neighbourhood in upper manhattan, and it was slated to celebrate black Culture And History in america. Those in attendance felt like it was a momentous occasion, but back then, it was overshadowed by woodstock. Footage of the event sat in a basement for decades, forgotten until now. Are you ready, black people . Crowd cheers. Are you really ready . Crowd cheers. The film was the directorial debut for ahmir questlove thompson, known by many as questlove, a Founding Member of the hip hop group, the roots. In the film, he drives home the sense of injustice felt that a cultural and historical Music Event celebrating blackness had been so seriously overlooked by the media for so long. We are a new people i didnt even believe such a thing happened, and then when i seen the footage i was like i had a responsibility, but this is more than just. I dont consider this my directorial debut more than i consider it my chance to correct history. The film featured a strong Line Up of performances from iconic black musical acts, including Gladys Knight and the pips and stevie wonder. Gladys knight took to the stage the night of the tribeca premiere, returning to perform at the very same park in harlem at which she performed back in 1969. While the documentary plays like a concert film, commemorating the performances from musical legends, it also acknowledges the sociopolitical climate that surrounded the event in 1969. When black communities all across america were experiencing turbulence. � 69 was a Paradigm Shift and you kind of had a younger generation that had demands, the first wave of civil rights was more like quieter peaceful protests and this new generation. You know, demanded respect. Questlove hopes that audiences will embrace the blackjoy that is also present in the film. Thats an element that also needs to be told in black stories. We have told the trauma, we told the pain, we told the sorrow, we told some progress too, butjoy is also an element and this is what this has. The Tribeca Festival hosted a World Premiere for a documentary on the british born Author Jackie collins who died in 2015. Dismissed by some as a queen of sleaze, this well made film tries to explore collins as a feminist icon. Emma jones went to meet the director of this Tribeca Documentary on her Home Turf in london. One of the most successful authors and publishing history. Jackie collins sold half A Billion copies of her novels and epitomised the excess of hollywood in the 1980s through her biggest selling book, Hollywood Wives. Shes putting female sexuality at the centre of the world. Lady boss, a documentary by british director laura fairrie, Re Examines Collins feminist legacy. She had access to the authors diaries for the movie and the recollections of her three daughters. Its Neon Pink Branding is as reminiscent of the � 80s as the bouffant Hair And Shoulder pads collins herself would sport. How long did it take to make the film . Over a period of, like, 2. 5 years. We meet in west london, the part of the london where Jackie Collins was born in 1937 and often returned to, despite her career in los angeles. Whats interesting is that throughout her life, she was never really given the recognition that she deserved. She was called the queen of sleaze or you know, the author of the Bonkbuster And Kind of looked down upon a lot by critics. Its evil, really. What . The books that you | write, quite frankly. Laughter. But thats to forget the fact that, you know, she sold over 500 Million copies of her books and they were read by women all over the world and she made her brand of feminism accessible to millions of women. And she gave them the opportunity to imagine a different life for themselves. Lady boss reveals that jackie, whose sister is actressjoan collins, was searching for fantasy herself and found it in writing after a traumatic first first marriage. He was a gambler, an alcoholic. He did become extremely controlling. She also accompanied Joan To Hollywood as a young woman, trying to make it as an actress herself and had a brief relationship with Marlon Brando when she was 15 years old. Forjackie, hollywood was this dream and she grew up watching her sister become this incredible success at an early age, and so she was chasing that for herself. Yes, she had wild adventures there, but she also had experiences as a young woman that perhaps were not entirely comfortable. You know, she was definitely trying to make it in hollywood herself, she was going to auditions, she was the starlet on the casting couch. When you read her books, you will see that she puts those stories into her books. Disguises the names, disguises, you know, the places. But the tough times are in the books, as well as the outrageous bonkers hollywood stories. Karen, yourfatherandl want to talk to you. I Hollywood Wives was made into a 1983 miniseries which is very much of its time. Although it does star double oscar winner, Sir Anthony hopkins. Jackie collins was also the screenwriter behind adaptations of some of her novels, including 1979s the stud, which revitalised her sisterjoans career. Vanessa was disappointed in your performance too. Or rather the lack of it. So, is it true that Jackie Collins, if she had the breaks, would have liked to become a director . She talked about it in the � 80s, she was writing the scripts for the hollywood miniseries of her books and you would often see her in photographs in her chair, you know, she would be on set with her name on the back of the chair, but secretly, i think, you know, she would have liked to have directed and its interesting that she didnt actually seem to get that opportunity. Her work fell out of fashion in the 1990s, but six years after her death from cancer in 2015, collinss stories are finding a place again in the post me too media industry. I think that she would have loved this time because its almost like her brand of feminism and her books really have a place in the world today. Where people can define what feminism is for themselves and thats what she did, you know. Her feminism was about sexual desire, freedom to live your life in the way that you wanted, freedom to choose the careers you want, the men you want. Hollywood agrees on reexamining her relevancy. Not only does Lady Boss have a Cinema Release injuly, but a Biopic Ofjoan and Jackie Collins is in development, as well as films on the writers favourite character, lucky sa ntangelo. Thats significant, as Lady Boss speculates that Jackie Collins liked to project herself as one of her all powerful heroines, even when her reality was very different. She had everything she had always wanted. She was Jackie Collins. And she was the boss. Tribeca is, in many respects quite a local festival, bringing New Yorkers stories that lie in their midst. New york has long been a city of immigrants and we found an Immigrant Story called queen of Glory Set in the New York borough of the bronx. Sarah is a Scientist Working in New York when her mother dies suddenly. As the only child, she is expected to handle the traditional elaborate Ashanti Funeral in her mums honour. This looks like a family affair. Nope, that ones just black. These moments of Comic Relief define nana mensahs debut film. As a child of ghanaian immigrants, she grew up seeing plenty of trauma in african immigrant films, but that didnt reflect her experience. So she wanted to create something different with queen of glory. We laughed a lot growing up. My parents told crazy stories from back home, or, like, the crazy things that happened to them when they first came to this country, so i wanted to tell the story. Wheres the body . She was cremated. Of course it centres around a woman losing her mother so its not all laughs, its not a Screwball Comedy but at the same time, there are moments forjoy. Im not getting on the scale. Mensah shows what its like straddling two worlds as a first generation american. Including the challenge of upholding traditions while also showing the powerful Connection Culture creates between old world and new. The christian Book Store Sarah inherits from her mother provides sarah with another avenue of self discovery. Queen of glory is filled with colourful New York characters, like the former convict turned christian Book Store Employee and the eager Street Vendor trying very hard to sell his african movie dvds. New York City itself is also a character and its unique rhythms are a hallmark of the film. Mensah believes this is the perfect time to premiere her New York centric work. It feels very momentous to be part of this particular season at tribeca, 20 years after 9 11, and when New York exactly finds itself re emerging from the pandemic, the throes of the pandemic, so we are really happy to be premiering here, not only that, its a New York story, having our hometown premiere, it feels will be good. Get on it. I dont weigh myself. Why not . As much as queen of glory is an Immigrant Story, it is distinctly Ghanaian American too. Coming off the heels of 2019s year of return, where black people throughout the African Diaspora were encouraged to return to ghana, mensah hopes the attention on the country will open the door to more opportunities for ghanaian Film Makers and bolster ghanas growing Film Industry called ghollywood. I have worked in ghana as an actor and that has been very, we did shoot a little bit of B Roll in ghana and that was really. Its been a great experience, you know, for me. I think my hope is that this moment, high tide rises all boats. And that everyone in ghana will benefit from this new attention. I have to say that the Tribeca Film festival, at least with its choice of opening night movie, which was of course In The Heights, reignited my love for movies and for New York, especially at a time when here, at least in this part of the world, we appear to be moving Out Of The Shadow of covid 19. But for real movie lovers in new York City, the one Tribeca Film that had real resonance was called the last Film Show. It was a magical tale set in india. The movie is set in gujarat in 2010 and follows a young boy from a remote area whose life is transformed when he goes to the cinema. Partly autobiographical, it has been lovingly put together by director pan nalin, its a family drama, but really its the story of a boy intoxicated by cinema. It becomes an obsession, he tries to make his own kind of cinema and ultimately, try to sort of fulfil his dream to project cinema. It shows him a world which he has never seen. He sees people and music and the action, and that was a little bit my own experience growing up in the village and i wanted that to. And i remember very vividly that i was just blown away by these movies. The boy strikes up a friendship with the projectionist at the local galaxy cinema. He gives him food his mother prepared for in exchange, the projectionist lets him watch films all day long. And with his friends, he uses spare parts to create a projector, together they create their own 35mm movie. In some respects, the last Film Show bears a resemblance to the celebrated 1988 italian Film Cinema Paradiso which also featured a young boy with a deep love for movies who strikes up a relationship with a projectionist. I didnt see Cinema Paradiso until like, a long, long time, i got a dvd and i saw the film, it reminded me so much of my childhood. Even if there is a Cinema Paradiso, i had to tell the story of simple innocence of the kids, living in the middle of nowhere and how their life turns upside down when they discover the magic of cinema. The last Film Show is not just a big valentine to the wondrous nature of cinema, its also a Love Letter to the indian single screen cinema hall, often times impressive structures which were once ubiquitous, but have now dwindled in number. They are becoming relics now from a bygone age. I would say there are absolutely very, very few. And sadly, they are all being turned into either supermarkets or shops, the single Screen Culture is more or less gone. The last Film Show, which is beautifully photographed, hit all the right note at tribeca. It was just the kind of movie the audience wanted to see at this moment in time. Coming out of their homes after being isolated because of covid 19, to express their affection for cinema by watching a film all about one Boys Passion for the movies. The film has become an invitation to return to cinema because now quite a few festivals Around The World are calling us. We heard about this movie, can we have it in china, south korea, can we do the opening . So that feels really good. If we can raise that hope in this dark time, we feel positive, but the pure reaction i have got is that we feel good and we really needed this. That brings this edition of Talking Movies, where we have been looking back at highlights from this years Tribeca Festival, to a close. We hope you enjoyed the show. Please remember you can always reach us online at. Bbc. Com talkingmovies. And you can find us on facebook and twitter. From me, Tom Brooke and the rest of the Talking Movies team, here in New York and london, its goodbye, as we leave you with a clip from tribecas opening Night Film, In The Heights. Music hello. For the rest of the day, for many of you it remains dry, sunshine varies from one place to another but in the south we will see further rain in the form of heavy and thundery downpours. An area of low pressure centred towards north western france, you will notice how the cloud is revolving around and as that spins around we get lots of that cloud coming around bringing the downpours, widely across southern counties of england and may be south wales, fringing up to the m4. To the north we couldnt rule out an isolated shower in eastern england, the vast majority dry with sunny spells, the best in the west and temperatures here up to around 21 degrees. In the mid teens, high teens in the east, 22 with any brighter breaks in the south. Breezier in southern areas compared to recent days. Those heavy and thundery downpours continue over the evening and overnight, into East Anglia, midlands and wales, humid air brought in towards the south east, 16 the low in london. Fresher further north but here we start the day with some dry and bright weather on monday. Its here where High Pressure dominates. As we go through monday, tuesday and wednesday, low pressure still towards the south, many parts of England And Way is will still be susceptible to further showers. That includes in wimbledon, come opening day could bring the downpour around through the day. There will be some play, but be wary of some interruptions and i wouldnt rule out the Odd Rumble of thunder. The day will begin wettest across parts of the midlands, wales, South West of england, a few showers fringing into northern england, but by and large northern england, scotland and northern ireland, dry day, sunny spells, some sunshine further south but here we could see more heavy and thundery showers developing as we go through the afternoon. Temperatures up to 22 degrees here, 21, 22 in the west of scotland. Most other areas in the high teens. Those heavy and thundery showers continue into Monday Evening and Monday Night replaced by longer spells of Rain Pushing in from the east. They will be on and off through the day across East Anglia and then the midlands and other parts of southern england. Parts of wales, South West, may be a bit drier compared to what we see in the next 2a hours. The best of the weather in the far north of england, scotland and northern ireland, highs of 2a in Western Scotland as we could see at times through the rest of the week. The driest weather here, showers in the first half of the week across england and wales. See you soon. This is Bbc News with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and Around The World. After the revelations of kissing a colleague in his office, the Uk Health Secretary Matt Hancock resigns, with an apology for breaching coronavirus guidance. I understand the enormous sacrifices that everybody in this country has made, that you have made, and those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them, and thats why ive got to resign. First day on the job, the former Chancellor Sajid Javid is put in charge at the department of health. He says he was honoured to take up the position. I he says he was honoured to take up the position the position. I will do everything i can to make the position. I will do everything i can to make sure the position. I will do everything i can to make sure that the position. I will do everything i can to make sure that i the position. I will do everything i can to make sure that i deliver i the position. I will do everything i | can to make sure that i deliver for the people of this great