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No Malice Film Contest Launches Free Professional Lecture Series with Top Filmmakers and Storytellers News provided by Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, Feb. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Creators of the No Malice Film Contest for young filmmakers in Illinois between the ages of 11 and 21 this Saturday will launch a free series of talks with professional filmmakers and storytellers to share advice and inspire their creativity. Students will compete in the contest as individuals or in g...

Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga play Black women in 1920s New York, navigating the "color line" from opposite sides in Rebecca Halls adaptation of the Harlem Renaissance novel. Exquisite performances from Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga provide the pulsing, emotionally heightened center to Passing, Rebecca Halls assured move behind the camera, adapted with great sensitivity from the 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen. "Were all of us passing for something or other, arent we?" mus...

Passing Review: Rebecca Halls Subtle, Provocative Directorial Debut Passing Review: Rebecca Halls Subtle, Provocative Directorial Debut A superbly performed study of racialized longing and feminine dissatisfaction in 1920s New York, lit by searing intelligence and compassion. Jessica Kiang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Rebecca Hall With: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Alexander Skarsgård, Bill Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Ashley Ware Jenkins. Run...

Three very different films premiered on Saturday, the biggest day for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Set in different time periods in different parts of the world, these movies are a snapshot of the diversity of stories being told virtually out of Park City. The best of the three is “Passing,” Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of the 1929 Harlem Renaissance novel of the same name by Nella Larsen. The acclaimed actress proves to be an ambitious filmmaker, tackling a challenging story of race, s...

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We have heard his music in countless movies, operas, pop songs and even Bugs Bunny cartoons, and now we can send a message to say #HappyBirthdayLudwig on Beethovens 250th birthday (you can write your own message here that will be stored permanently at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn). The International Beethoven Project ("IBP") founded by classical musician and composer George Lepauw is celebrating Beethovens 250th Birthday as part of a global celebration taking place in countries all over the ...

Im jake tapper. this sunday night, will appear a rather contemporary documentary about roger ebert based on his memoir of the same night. unprecedented access to roger and his wife chaz during the last four months of his cancer that left him without the lower part of his draw. spoke with chaz ebert about her husband, life, and legacy. >> the film is extraordinary. how difficult was it for you and for roger to allow cameras in because you were documenting everything. >> anderson i have to tell yo...

The day before we were invited to the home of the captain. captain irianto. many have no lost name. irianto has a daughter who turns 25 this week. a 7-year-old son. two elderly parents about and others allowed inside. we sat on the floor with them and the wife and the daughter describe their husband and father as a kind compassionate, wonderful man and father. they also had friends there who were also pilots for different airlines and said he also was a wonderful pilot. its extraordinarily sad. ...

Ticket sounds hot to me. >> you would take him as my vp? >> any day. >> my thanks to nina turner for joining us by phone. i know youre at the aka convention. ill forgive you for that. >> we have a good panel going here in charlotte to talk about human rights. >> very good. >> and our responsibilities and our rights. this is a social justice/human rights panel here in charlotte. so send us some leave here in charlotte. >> all the love sent down to north carolina, which will be my new home im goin...

states, think again. because there is another humanitarian situation unfolding on the u.s.s northern border that also has caught the attention of the united nations and also involves people from another neighboring nation crossing into the united states. only in this case it is people on our side of the border who are in need of help and our foreign friends who could be coming to the rescue. im talking about the people in the city of detroit, who have been deprived of access to the mos...