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How to Collaborate With Actors for Online Engagement Share Do you want to deepen learners’ engagement with content and each other? Here’s a tip: Bring in live actors for your courses. Highly effective for in-person events, this method is also easy to implement with online learning. Is this technique effective for learning initiatives? Actors Jason Heil and Veronica Murphy joined me at an ATD Forum roundtable during which the Forum’s senior learning professionals interacted wi...

St. Vincent Meta-Documentary ‘The Nowhere Inn’ Acquired by IFC Films Film that premiered at Sundance in 2020 stars and was written by Annie Clark and Carrie BrownsteinBrian Welk | March 1, 2021 @ 3:50 PM Minka Farthing Kohl/Sundance IFC Films has acquired from Topic Studios the North American rights to “The Nowhere Inn,” the film starring, co-written by and centered on indie rock guitarist St. Vincent. Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, wrote the screenplay with “Portlandia” star an...

Passionate, personal and profoundly moving. TWITTER Writer-director Lucy Walker casts an immigrants eye over Californias catastrophic wildfires for this essayistic documentary. Bring Your Own Brigade isnt the first cinematic report on the Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise, California, in 2018, or even the first one to screen at Sundance (Ron Howards Rebuilding Paradise played at the festival in 2020). It almost certainly wont be the last film about the devastation wrought by uncontrolled wildf...

NEON released a first look photo from “ Spencer,” the upcoming drama featuring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana. The studio started principal photography on the project this week, and the movie is slated to hit theaters in autumn 2021. The film focuses on one weekend in the life of Princess Diana, as she spends the Christmas holiday with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk and decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles. Filming will take place in Germany and the UK. ...

Jan 23, 2021 PALM BEACH, Fla. — Frank Lawrence Venetta, 84, formerly of Niles, peacefully passed away Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, at his home, with his daughters by his side. Frank was born March 16, 1936, in Morgantown, W.Va., to Nicola and Isolina Salucci Venetta. Shortly after, the Venetta family moved to Warren. He was a 1955 graduate of Warren G. Harding High School, and following graduation, entered the Army serving in Fort Irwin, Calif. Frank was honorably discharged in 1957. Frank was a d...

‘The Mauritanian’: Film Review David Rooney The Mauritanian, based on the best-selling memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent 14 years incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba without ever being charged with a crime. Macdonald is an exceptional documentary maker ( Touching the Void) with a more uneven track record in narrative features ( The Last King of Scotland is probably strongest among them), and this legal procedural remains strangely flat, des...

Laura Poitras says shes been fired by First Look Media over Reality Winner controversy Sarah Ellison, The Washington Post Jan. 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Laura Poitras photographed in Washington, D.C., in 2017.Washington Post photo by Bill OLeary Three days after Thanksgiving, filmmaker Laura Poitras received a blandly chipper text signaling the end of her time with the media organization she co-founded and which she now says has betrayed its mission. "Hope all is well and you remain safe,"...

A politically charged legal thriller with only an intermittent pulse. TWITTER 2/19/2021 Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch star as lawyers on opposing sides of a habeas corpus case in Kevin Macdonalds drama based on the memoir of a longtime Guantánamo Bay detainee, played by Tahar Rahim. Kevin Macdonald has sensational nonfiction material in The Mauritanian, based on the best-selling memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent 14 years incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base i...

Houston: American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE) is a networking platform for engineers and architects of Indian origin. First, we would like to pay our respects to those who are in the frontline helping the public during the pandemic, and our condolences to the families and friends who suffered unthinkable loss due to COVID-19. We also want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our sustaining members and corporate sponsors — they are who make it possible for us to do...

GPM Investments Begins Next Chapter as Arko Holdings & Haymaker Tie-Up Closes RICHMOND, Va. — GPM Investments parent company, Arko Holdings Ltd., closed on its business tie-up with Haymaker Acquisition Corp. In September, Arko Holdings entered into a definitive agreement with Haymaker, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, to form a business combination. With the combination complete, Arko Corp. — the new company — moves forward as a U.S.-listed public company as...