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Big Apple-based ninjas, florid South African horrors and a 1980s horror classic also feature in the 2021 edition which kicks off in Wellington tonight.

Here’s the latest news and events from around the region.

Swiss national film archive Cinémathèque Suisse is finishing up a new restoration of...

Run for your life, as Fantasia adds more European gems to its line-up Bull by Paul Andrew Williams and The Deep House by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury will shake up the viewers of the Montreal-based festival Bull by Paul Andrew Williams, having its world premiere at the festival The Fantasia International Film Festival has announced new titles, rounding up its upcoming 25th edition. While Takashi Miike’s The Great Yokai War-Guardians will close the event, European films will be given...

/ Rarely can a portrait, including a dead body under a sheet, have created such a powerful, immediate, critical and public response.  Ken Currie, undoubtedly among the most significant painters of our time, is known for his dark side, his bleak, black pictures of haggard figures and harrowing happening, tortured flesh, forensic finales, illness, death. Long before Co-vid, he recognised the fragility, vulnerability and desperate aspects of human life and, never flinching, captured them with an...

May 6th, 2021 By David Knox 2 commentsFiled under: News, Skilling South Australia, a $200 million initiative, sees the South Australian Film Corporation  and the federal government set to bolster local crew. Twenty-five skilled workers from adjacent industries such as performing and visual arts, festivals and events, accountancy, trades, construction and more will undergo training to join the screen industry for the first time, while 25 existing crew will also be upskilled. SA Minister for In...

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The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is to reopen on Friday with a new Ken Currie work depicting forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black. Arriving at the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) on a long-term loan directly from the artist, the large portrait is titled Unknown Man and shows Professor Black in surgical robes standing behind the covered remains of a body. The pair met during a BBC Radio 4 discussion programme on the relationship between art and anatomy. Currie then visited...

BBC News Professor Dame Sue Black painting revealed at gallery Close The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is to reopen later this week with a Ken Currie work depicting forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black. Arriving at the National Galleries of Scotland on a long-term loan directly from the artist, the large portrait is titled Unknown Man and shows Prof Black in surgical robes standing behind the covered remains of a body. Prof Black reacted with tears when she first saw Mr Currie�...

Scholar gets prestigious French award Updated: Updated: Kichenamourthy served as HoD in Pondicherry University Share Article AAA French Consul General Lise Talbot Barré presenting the the prestigious ‘Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques’, the oldest French civilian honour on R .Kichenamourty, former Head of the Department of French and UGC Emeritus Fellow, Pondicherry University during the recent Francophone festival.   | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Kichenamourthy se...