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A New Short Film Festival Is Coming To Heaton Moor

A wealth of up and coming filmmaking talent is set to be celebrated at a new short film festival at a popular independent cinema. The inaugural Fast Anchor Film Festival wi...

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Festivals

Film Festival Directors Discuss State of Cinema

Would you say that the state of international film is healthy and on the rise?
Barbera: The U.S. is still the leading film industry and biggest market, but it’s ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Are music festivals getting Bollywood-ised?

The Indian music festival scene — for long the stomping grounds of the independent (indie, to the cool crowd) music scene-loving fans — saw Bollywood aka the ma...

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Retroscope

Udayer Pathe - A Star Is Born

With Udayer Pathe, a new star was born – the name was BIMAL ROY.
As cinematographer, that star quality was evident after he shot P.C .Barua’s MUKTI. Deser...

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Environment

Trees may increase air pollution on city streets

City trees, popularly thought to remove pollutants and improve urban life, may also increase the amount of foul air that people breathe, says the UK body which gives indepe...

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Gender

Coming To Terms With “Beauty And The Beast” And The Imperfect Feminism Of Disney

Looking back from a mountaintop of Elsa and Moana, it seems ridiculous that Ariel and Belle once struck Disney audiences as independent, tough, and feminist. But times can ...

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Festivals

Manipuri film ‘Ima Sabitri’ opens non-feature section

‘Ishti’, the opening feature film for the Indian Panorama, is set in the mid-twentieth century Kerala, when young Namboothiri Brahmins successfully challenged t...

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Festivals

For the second consecutive year Panorama opens with a Sanskrit film

The day after the grand inauguration of the 47th International Film Festival of India in Goa, the Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting Shri Venkaiah Naidu open...

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Former Independent Editor Amol Rajan Named BBC's News Media Editor

Rajan leaves his role as editor-at-large of The Independent. He became the newspaper’s editor in June 2013 and remained there after it closed its print operation in M...

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Health

An Illustrator's Brutally Honest And Witty Take On Living With Mental Illness

Ruby Elliot was 14-years-old when she was diagnosed with anorexia. Then came the depression, bulimia and bi-polar.
She loved drawing as a young child – emulatin...

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