Fighting Modern-Day Witch Hunts In India’s Remote Northeast

More than 2,000 people accused of being witches have been killed in Indiaover the last 15 years in poor, remote areas of the northeast.
The victims, nearly all of them...

Freida Pinto Turns Producer For Women Empowerment Shows And Films

Freida Pinto is a renowned social activist who essentially works towards the development of women and the actress has taken yet another step in this direction. Freida along...

'Eternal' Data Storage Is Here

Like most, my personal requirements for long-term data storage pretty much end when I end. So, we're talking decades, and certainly not centuries or millennia. I'd even say...

Flowing With Rashmi: An Interview With The Director Of The FLO Film Festival

Rashmi Lamba is the Festival Director at the FLO Film Festival, a festival geared towards the empowerment of women. The festival explores positive portrayals of women and g...

NFAI To Hold Workshop On Film Restoration

The National Film Archive of India (NFAI), in association with the Film Heritage Foundation headed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, is set to begin a 10-day workshop on film p...

2016 Global Film Festival Links 'Film And Community'

The theme of this year's Global Film Festival, "Film and Community," is much more than a subject matter."We're really trying to not just program films around it, but to liv...

The Winter Film Awards Indie Film Festival Depicts Characters in Unfamiliar Worlds

Strange people in strange places seemed to be an ongoing theme in the films featured at this year’s Winter Film Awards Indie Film Festival in New York City. This year...

More Efforts Needed To Safeguard Child Rights'

The first workshop on New Juvenile Justice Act 2015, was held in Jaipur on Saturday, which laid emphasis on health and education of children.

Directorate of Child W...

Interview: Kathryn Kolbert And Melissa Silverstein, Founders Of The Athena Film Festival

The 6th Annual Athena Film Festival, a festival to highlight works by women filmmakers and stories about women, is next week at Barnard. I got a chance to talk on the phone...