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Gender

Sweden: Pioneers In Gender Equality

The film industry has a notoriously strong masculine bias. Gender disparity is entrenched and women continue to face an uphill battle. The number of women in some areas of ...

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Festivals

Locarno To Open With Demme's 'Flash'

World premieres for new films by Athina Rachel Tsangari, Hong Sangsoo, Ben Rivers; Southpaw, Trainwreck among Piazza Grande titles. The 68th Locarno Film Festival (August 5...

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Health

AIDS Epidemic Can End By 2030: UNAIDS

India has achieved a reduction of more than 20 per cent in new HIV infections between 2000 and 2014, according to a report released by UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Prog...

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Sustainable Development

Smart, Self-Destructing Syringes Could Save Millions Of Lives

In December 2014, Yem Chrin, an unlicensed Cambodian doctor, was charged with murder. By reusing the same syringe, he had infected over 270 people in a remote community in ...

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Gender

Your Children’s Toys Are Perpetuating Gender Discrimination

In my work in the media and in my role as a mother of both a young man and woman, I have been regularly stunned at how girls are routinely labeled, classified, and shaped i...

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Hollywood

Telly Awards Name Imagine Dragon's Cancer Charity As Winner

The Telly Awards has named Imagine Dragons’ public charity, The Tyler Robinson Foundation (TRF) as a Silver winner in the 36th Annual Telly Awards for their piece tit...

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Bollywood

Want To Produce Human Stories: Vivek Oberoi

“The films that I will be producing are human stories with no commercial objective. I’m a big fan of Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi whose film, “Children ...

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Sustainable Development

Can We Finance Sustainable Development?

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the most comprehensive international poverty alleviation movement in history. Since 1990, extreme poverty has been cut by ...

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Environment

How To Talk To A 5-Year-Old About Climate Change

Climate change can be a scary thing to talk about with grown-ups, let alone children. It is also very complex, with long-term effects that reach into future decades and cen...

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Festivals

Randeep Hooda Kickstarts A Unique Film Festival On Social Media

When you think of a film festival, you think of a festive, poster filled movie theatre. Trust actor Randeep Hooda to redefine the film festival by sharing it with countless...

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