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Pakistani cinematographer Asad Faruqis Call Center Blues, a short documentary by Multitude Films, has been shortlisted for Oscars. Geeta Gandbhir directed the documentary. It examines the lives of four characters deported from the US. They are linked only by the fact of their deportation and that call center work is their only way to earn a living. Tijuana, the city they live in, is a Mexican border town and has an atmosphere of transience, which no one truly calls home. “These characters pain...

Alice Wu Was Having Trouble Writing The Half of It. So She Wrote A $1,000 Check To The NRA © Provided by Refinery29 The Half Of It – Leah Lewis – Photo Credit: Netflix / KC Bailey Welcome to #R29MovieClub. We are taking “home theater” to a whole new level: Every Thursday at 5 p.m. ET, R29 is hosting a live rewatch of a beloved women-driven film. Join us! In 2004, director Alice Wu burst onto the indie film scene with Saving Face, a tender, funny rom-com about mothers, daughters, fam...

Saving Face: The Half of It directors 2004 lesbian rom-com debut was way ahead of its time Jinghua Qian © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Photo 12/Alamy A lot of my favourite things from the mid-2000s haven’t held up, but here’s one that has: Saving Face, an underappreciated lesbian romantic comedy that was way ahead of its time – or maybe it’s more that the rest of the genre is still lagging behind. Saving Face was the feature film debut for writer and director ...

Sundance Now Unveils February 2021 TV & Movie Slate Sundance Now has revealed their February 2021 slate, including more episodes of A Discovery of Witches Season 2, the premiere of the Canadian police procedural The Murders starring Jessica Lucas ( Gotham, Playing For Keeps, and more. You can check out the full February lineup below! José  19-year-old José (Enrique Salanic) lives with his mother (Ana Cecilia Mota) in Guatemala. His life is routine and aimless, until he finds passion, pai...

Invest in your own people and your own industry first, the Oscar-winning film-maker shared Last week, the internet went into a frenzy after celebrated film-maker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy shared her two cents on Turkish actor Esra Bilgic being the next possible brand ambassador for Peshawar Zalmi. "I find this hilarious! A Turkish actress whose country doesn’t even play the sport will now be a mascot for cricket?” the Oscar-winner had said. “What happened to Pakistani actresses, by the way? D...

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy among 18 best film directors of Asia Two-time Academy Award winning Pakistani film-maker has made it to a list compiled by Asian Tatler Two-time Academy Award winning Pakistani film-maker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has made it among the top 18 Asian directors list compiled by Asian  Tatler. The list also features the likes of Academy Award winning director Bong Joon-Ho, who is also the jury president of the 78 th Venice International Film Festival. Joon-Ho’s Parasite (2019...

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy named among Asia’s top directors Tatlers list features 18 directors SAMAA | Samaa Life&Style Editors - Posted: Jan 18, 2021 | Last Updated: 3 months ago SAMAA | Samaa Life&Style Editors Posted: Jan 18, 2021 | Last Updated: 3 months ago Photo: File Two-time Oscar winner Chinoy ranks 16th on the list. Tatler describes Chinoy as a journalist, an activist and a filmmaker who is known for her work on inequality faced by women. Chinoy took to Instagram and ...

Since March, Hollywood has struggled to contend with the COVID-19 health crisis that has shut down movie theaters across the globe. With no clear end in sight, most studios have delayed many of their blockbuster releases time and again. As a result, the next two years will see an influx of backlogged tentpoles hitting the big screen. Right now, were all just hoping for a better year in 2021, which is looking chock-full of films like Dune, No Time to Die, and, of course, a slew of Marvel-relat...

Ministry of the us administration is thinking of the political costs of the trade war heading into the 2020 election so the risk is that the chinese side actually tend to overreach in terms of the concessions that they expect and then in the interest of saving face or perhaps in another sort of 4 am to if it dont trouble call the whole thing off as to be fair has happened before this year so there is a real risk of that blow up and were seeing that already effect and weigh on investor im a follo...

Further blowups. of course and i think miscalculation is the keeping him because we know the chinese authorities will have reached the same conclusions that any observer can reach the viewer ministry of the us administration is thinking of the political costs of the trade war heading into the 2020 election so the risk is that the chinese side actually tend to overreach in terms of the concessions that they expect and then in the interest of saving face or perhaps in another sort of 4 am to if it...