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Film Festival Celebrates Jewish?Culture

When the Calgary Jewish Film Festival began 15 years ago, its opening night attracted 40 people. This Saturday the festival will open with a screening of the documentary Ro...

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Hollywood

Britney Spears Donates Concert Funds To Children's Cancer Charity

Britney Spears has donated $120,000 to a charity benefiting children’s cancer research and treatment. Spears vowed to donate $1 from each ticket bought for her Britne...

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Festivals

Laguna Film Festival To Launch In October

The three-day festival will focus on short films. The first-ever Laguna Film Festival, a three-day festival dedicated to short films, will be held Oct 16-18, the ...

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Festivals

London Film Festival Unveils Industry Program, Including China Focus

Geena Davis, Guy Maddin, Laurie Anderson and Abi Morgan are among the speakers set for talks, forums and workshops, and a panel will explore the impact of the foreign-langu...

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Gender

A New Ratings System Will Assess Schooling For Girls Worldwide

An advocacy group set up by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and Foreign Policy Magazine are launching an annual index to assess the availability and quality of ed...

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Festivals

Full Bloom Film Festival Coming To Statesville

The plan is to put Statesville on the map in the film festival world — and the organizers behind Full Bloom Film Festival are already off to a good start. Filmmakers ...

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Festivals

Tokyo Film Festival To Showcase ‘Mobile Suit Gundam’

Japan’s genre-spawning robot animation franchise Mobile Suit Gundam will be given a special showcase at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, organizer...

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Environment

Vatican Announces Major Summit On Climate Change

Catholic officials announced on Tuesday plans for a landmark climate change-themed conference to be hosted at Vatican later this month, the latest in Pope Francis’ fa...

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Thought Factory

WHEN THEATRE MARRIES CINEMA

As I sat watching a CinePlay screening of the play sometimes, in a preview theatre, I was tad perplexed. Am I watching a play or am I watching a movie? Some months back, I ...

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Sustainable Development

Coimbatore to host national seminar on Water Resources: Development and Sustainable Management

A One-day national seminar is going to be organised jointly by JSS University, Mysore and Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, on the theme "Water Resources: Development and ...

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