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Stolen Fish screens at the 2021 New Jersey International Film Festival on June 5! Stolen Fish, documentary filmmaker Gosia Juszczak, of Madrid, Spain, follows the lives of three locals in The Gambia, a country on the coast of West Africa that relies heavily on fishing. Abou Saine, Paul John Kamony, and Mariama Jatta all live in different parts of The Gambia, but all suffer the same struggle brought on when fish meal factories were introduced to the country. Since then, The Gambia has been a sl...

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Blursday: How physics can shake you out of your slump CNN 3 hrs ago By Jessica DuLong, CNN © Provided by CNN The disruption caused by the pandemic may be helping us better grasp the true nature of time, Susanne Paola Antonetta said. Now that weve ticked past the one-year mark of Covid-19 safety restrictions, the calendar is scrolling once more through the same holidays that punctuated the early pandemic. Yet again, curtailed Purim and St. Patricks Day celebrations teed up a...

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Photo supplied by Belfry Theatre. The new initiative, Belfry on Film, brought these stories and more to a virtual format due to COVID-19 restrictions In response to the pandemic, the Belfry Theatre launched Belfry on Film — an initiative to bring recorded plays to remote audiences. The premiere production of this initiative is Joel Bernbaum’s newest play, Being Here: the Refugee Project.  Being Here, which ran from March 16-21, is a dramatization of interviews conducted across Canada with...

Author of the article: Liane Faulder Publishing date: Mar 14, 2021  •  March 14, 2021  •  4 minute read  •  Joel Bernbaum collected stories from refugees across Canada and developed them into Being Here: The Refugee Project. Supplied Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Joel Bernbaum’s got guts. He is pursuing a career in two ...

Everything his actors needed for Being Here: The Refugee Project was right there on the page. Cast members were tasked with finding nuance within the “verbatim” play, based on interviews with refugees who have come to Canada. But they were asked to perform it as is, no exceptions. “I told the actors they could not make ‘actor’ choices here,” Shumata said. “They had to be a vessel for the words.” The Belfry, which has produced a filmed version for streaming, will celebrate the...