Mumbai's iconic heritage cinema METRO INOX is now South Mumbai's largest cinema and continues the celebration of legacy and luxury with the launch of their signature indulgence, INSIGNIA screens which is 100% solar powered. The fastest growing cinema chain INOX is proud to bring India's first multiplex to join the …
Mumbai's iconic heritage cinema METRO INOX is now South Mumbai's largest cinema and continues the celebration of legacy and luxury with the launch of their signature indulgence, INSIGNIA screens which is 100% solar powered. The fastest growing cinema chain INOX is proud to bring India's first multiplex to join the …
One might not expect every butcher in rural Greece to recognise Costas Lapavitsas. He is, after all, an economist, a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. His research interests include the evolution and function of the Japanese financial system—probably not staples of discussion among Greek …
Why a health film festival? I thought it would be a good idea to have the festival in Greece because Hippocrates, the father of medicine, was born there. Coincidentally, I found support from the mayor of the island where Hippocrates was born. The directors who have participated in the first …
Azim Anwar is a smiling young man with a singular mission in life: downloading everything he can possibly find on the Internet related to his interests: movies, funny videos, music, games and football matches. He gets more stuff from his network of friends and relatives (his brother has given him …
If you are doing nothing else this week, then watch Home, a brilliant film about uncertain future of life on the earth. With a mix of stunning photography and powerful words, the film delivers a stark message: we need to mend our ways. Watch it online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU"ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU. The film …
The film begins with images of a gushing stream, birds chirping and a typical audio overlay of the santoor that captures any pristine environment. It then cuts to a lament; the story of the Mithi river hard done by. The filmmakers have done well to capture the state of the …
From the Australian bush to Alaska’s Arctic wilderness, indigenous peoples’ stories and perspectives take centre stage at the Message Sticks Film Festival. The festival opened at the Sydney Opera House on May 13 and will tour across Australia till August 24. A decade ago it was difficult to get an …
The documentary Bananas! highlighted plight of Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who brought a legal case in the US against the use of a banned pesticide DBCP by the Dole Food Company. Tom Levitt reports.
You have no doubt read about the scams and scandals associated with the infamous iron ore mines of Bellary district in Karnataka and Ananthapura district in Andhra Pradesh. Now you can see the film. Titled Blood and Iron it is a documentary of two and a half hours which will …
In May 2008, Elena Varela was making a documentary on Chile’s Mapuche community when she was arrested. She was accused of planning two robberies allegedly committed in 2004 and 2005 by a cell of the insurgent Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). She was cleared of charges in October and …
Singapore is regarded as a haven for migrant workers. But a film festival, Migrant Voice, which began on September 11 showed it is not so. “We want to give migrant workers a platform to speak and encourage creative discourse,” said president Shaun Teo. Films such as Durai and Saro, a …
HOLLYWOOD bigwigs often like to be seen as eco-savvy. But America’s movie industry has been criticised for skyrocketing energy bills from lights and cameras and tossing movie sets in the dumpsters. www.greenproductionguid e.com helps them to be a little more environment friendly. It is a database of environment-friendly products and …
“One person alone cannot push an elephant, but many together can,” Rose Mapendo tells Congolese women. She is the lead character in the documentary Pushing the Elephant, which premiered in New York as part of the Human Rights Watch Inter national Film Festival in June. Mapendo’s husband was killed in …
Footage>> Pollution • Ecuador/USA Nearly 200 filmmakers from all over the world have signed a petition protesting an American court’s strictures against the director of the critically-acclaimed documentary, Crude: The Real Price of Oil . On May 15 a New York court ordered director Joe Berlinger to hand over unused …
DOCUMENTARY>> CLIMATE CHANGE • Germany Four years ago, former US vice-president Al Gore raised some alarming questions about climate change in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth. A German filmmaker has now tried to provide some answers in a documentary. Carl Fechner’s The Fourth Revolution - Energy Autonomy tries to …
The mayor of a Japanese town, which conducts an annual dolphin hunt, has protested the Academy Award given to The Cove, a documentary on grisly slaughter. The film follows activists who struggle with the Japanese police and fishermen to reach a secluded cove in Taiji in southern Japan, where dolphins …
Visual sophistry of James Cameron’s Avatar may have got it Oscars in technical categories, but many say the film’s plot was all too familiar. For the Dongria Kondh, a tribe in Orissa, the story is not merely confined to history books or 3-D movie screens. The narrative is their nightmare. …
Brazil’s Catholic Church is suing Hollywood for using unauthorized images of one of Rio de Janeiro’s famous landmarks: the statue of Christ, the Redeemer. The city’s archdiocese is demanding unspecified damages from Columbia Pictures for showing the statue being destroyed in a worldwide apocalypse in the film 2012. The archdiocese …
“It was a major shock when I got here,” says Tom Krueger. “You can’t describe the sweat down your back, the smell of the pus that hits your nose.” Krueger is a doctor with the Medecins Sans Frontieres (msf). He is speaking of the pain of working at Mamba Point …
