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Rural Film Festivals Are The Next Frontier Of LGBTQ Tolerance

In the fall of 2015, in tiny Lewisburg, West Virginia, Tim Ward and Jon Matthews were gearing up for the second annual Appalachian Queer Film Festival (AQFF for short). The...

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Hollywood

Brian May And Peter Egan Back NAVS’ Call To End Misleading Animal Tests

Ahead of World Day for Laboratory Animals on Monday April 24th, animal advocates Queen guitarist Brian May and actor Peter Egan are supporting calls by the National Anti-Vi...

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Health

A Market For Mental Health Insurance?

The Mental Healthcare Act mandates insurance providers to cover mental illnesses. This will boost mental health literacy and fight stigmatization Mental health is a subject...

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Hollywood

Stars Unite On Earth Day For Annual Farm Animal Protection Benefit

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) honored Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and the late Christina Grimmie on April 22 at its annual To the Rescue! Los Angeles Gala be...

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Alternative Entertainment

Ai WeiWei To Build Fences Throughout New York To Exhibit Immigration

With Donald Trump’s vowing to build walls and shut down borders, artists have continued to make powerful political statements, defiant against the President. In timel...

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Trending

Tomatoes, Limes & Sex-Selective Abortions

The United States is withdrawing all of its funding from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) after claiming without evidence that the agency supports coercive abortions in China...

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Hollywood

Cycle For Survival Raises A Record-Breaking $34 Million In One Year To Beat Rare Cancers

Cycle for Survival, the movement to beat rare cancers, raised $34 million in 2017 through its indoor team cycling events — the most raised in a single year in the his...

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Environment

We Might Soon Resurrect Extinct Species. Is It Worth the Cost?

With enough determination, money and smarts, scientists just might revive the woolly mammoth, or some version of it, by splicing genes from ancient mammoths into Asian elep...

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Festivals

CIFF 2017 Wrap: Attendance And Fundraising Records Broken Yet Again

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Year after year, the Cleveland International Film Festival plays like the best kind of broken record: It always breaks its own attendance and Challenge Ma...

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Bollywood

10 Of The Most Interesting Female Directors In South Asia

With every international film festival held, the question gets more pressing. Where are the female directors? Numerous studies on the representation of women in film keep s...

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