The All-Female Patrol Stopping South Africa's Rhino Poachers

The Black Mambas are winning the war on poaching,” insists SiphiweSithole. “We have absolutely zero tolerance for rhino poaching and the illegal wildlife trade....

Female Directors Will Feature Prominently In This Year's Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival unveiled the first half of its annual slate of films Wednesday, a record third of which are from female directors including Sophia Takal and Ingri...

Ang Lee And The Uncertainty Of Success

In 1993 I interviewed film director Ang Lee before the US premiere of his second movie, “The Wedding Banquet,” at the Seattle International Film Festival (at th...

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

Haryana Bride Sets New Example For Gender Equality, Rides Mare To Her Wedding

In a historic first, in a Haryana village, Mamta, a 25-year-old teacher, broke the stereotype and performed the Ghudchadi by riding a mare on her wedding. The ritual is usu...

Do Children Have A Right To Be Loved?

Surely every child on Earth should be loved. That seems obvious. But is that a human right? Many international declarations adopt this view. The 1989 Declaration on the Rig...

Ottal In Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles

Ottal, the national award-winning movie directed by Jayaraj, will be screened at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA), which will begin on April 6 at Los Angeles...

Campaign To Promote Women Artistes Comes With A Surprising Challenge

Frida Kahlo was the first 20th-century Mexican artist to sell a painting to the Louvre. Suzanne Valadon was the first woman accepted to the Société Natio...

True Review Movie - London Has Fallen

Cast: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, AlonMoniAboutboul, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell.

Director: BabakNajafi

Pr...