Anna Winger: It s creatively freeing to not live in your own culture
The writer and showrunner behind Netflix s Unorthodox on awards success, representation on screen and being a fish out of water in Berlin. Elizabeth Rushton, 22.2.2021 - 15:03 Uhr
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Photo: Anna Winger, privateAmerican-British writer, producer and showrunner Anna Winger.
Berlin - If you don t know Anna Winger, you probably know Unorthodox, the Netflix hit she co-created, wrote and produced based on the true story of a young woman fleeing her ultra-orthodox Jewish community in New York for her ancestral roots in Berlin. It has been nominated for 11 titles in this year s awards season, including two at this weekend s Golden Globes, and has already won a primetime Emmy. She also created and co-wrote the Cold War spy thriller series Deutschland 83/86/89, which was exported to international networks including Amazon Prime Video and won awards including the prestigious Grimme Prize.
The ninth Boulder Jewish Film Festival is thrilled to pay tribute to documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage, as well as to honor his lifelong dedication to Holocaust education and memorialization, in a special six-program series. Described by Tablet Magazine as “a filmmaker of rare moral perception,” Sauvage has consistently probed questions of moral choice, focusing on the magnitude of humanity’s failure during the Holocaust by underscoring what it was possible to do.
Sauvage was honored in 2018 with similar retrospectives at the Paris Mémorial de la Shoah and in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. The exclusive BJFF tribute program includes two special live events and four talkbacks. The closing event Q&A will focus on “
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Indonesia s top terrorist convict Abu Bakar Bashir released from prison
Mr Abu Bakar Bashir, 82, the spiritual leader of South-east Asia s terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah, being escorted out by prison guards yesterday as he left the Gunung Sindur prison in Bogor, on the outskirts of Jakarta. The radical cleric had been in jail since his arrest in 2009. PHOTOS: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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By Alois Vinga
THE global aid organisation, International Rescue Committee (IRC) has hailed the current stable exchange rates for preserving value to recipients of multi-purpose cash grant in Cyclone Idai hit areas.
A raft of measures implemented in 2020 by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) have seen the scrapping of mobile money agent lines, and the mopping of excess liquidity.
This has also been strengthened by RBZ’s launch of the foreign currency exchange auction system and a raft of measures, bringing sanity into the market.
Speaking during an interview on NewZim TV’s Economic Insights programme, IRC country director Zvidzai Maburutse said exchange rates stability had preserved the value of cash grants extended to vulnerable communities in Chimanimani district, Manicaland province.