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Filipino Auteur Brillante Mendoza To Receive Tribute At Sarajevo Film Festival

The Sarajevo Film Festival is set to pay tribute to Filipino auteur Brillante Mendoza, who won the director prize at Cannes with his ultra-violent “The Execution of P...

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Hollywood

George Clooney And Elie Wiesel Launch New $1 Million Global Humanitarian Award.

Nominations are open for the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, a new annual international humanitarian award to be given to a person or a group of people who put themsel...

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Gender

Oscars Shouldn’t Compromise To Up Diversity, Say Female Academy Members

Producers Marcia Nasatir and Bonnie Arnold suggest rapid pace of change at voting body could undermine requirement for high standard of professional achievement Two high-pr...

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Festivals

Your Guide To This Year's Jerusalem Film Festival.

Founded in 1984, the Jerusalem Film Festival is a baby compared to its European counterparts Venice (1932), Cannes (1946), and Berlin (1951). Israel’s second-oldest f...

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Movies

Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho

Critic’s Rating : 1.5 Stars

Cast: Annu Kapoor, Om Puri, Ravi Kishan, Rahul Bagga, Hrishita Bhatt

Direc...

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Gender

New Film Prize Created To Promote Better Roles For Women

The New York-based Independent Filmmaker Project and Phosphate Productions have partnered to create a new prize, The Phosphate Prize at IFP, to encourage indie film writers...

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Gender

Books About Women Don’t Win Major Fiction Prizes. How Can We Change That?

Man, woman, cyborg — no matter what kind of writer you are, if you want to win a major literary award, there’s just one thing you have to do: Make sure your mai...

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Sustainable Development

Innovative Desalination Technologies To Solve One Of The World’s Biggest Problems

Water will be the defining problem of the next 50 years. After spending the past two years delving into critical technological advances that my team of scientists, research...

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Festivals

10 Docs To See At The Sydney Film Festival

The SFF program has landed, and there is an absolute cornucopia of documentaries to choose from. With 50 feature docs found in categories across the main competition, inter...

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Festivals

Oscars: With Cannes Behind Us, Serious 2015 Contenders Start To Come Into Play

As I have slowly emerged during the past week from my French fog into the harsher realities of Hollywood, the likely effect of the 68th Cannes Film Festival on this year&rs...

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