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Mamoru Hosoda’s highly-anticipated Belle made waves at the Cannes International Film Festival ahead of its July 16 Japanese theatrical debut, and will come West this winter thanks to GKIDS Entertainment. The film by Studio Chizu earned a 14-minute standing ovation following the premiere. GKIDS announced in June that it acquired the North American distribution rights to the film. The movie follows 17-year-old Suzu, a rural high schooler, who enters the “U,” a virtual world of five billion members on the Internet, where she assumes the identity of Belle, a world-famous singer. There she ...

Annecy International Animation Festival has awarded South African animation studio, Triggerfish, the Mifa Animation Industry Award. “This is to highlight the pioneering role that the company has played in animation in South Africa, and Africa most widely,” says Véronique Encrenaz, head of Mifa. Previous recipients include Christopher Meledandri, founder of Illumination (Despicable Me); the co-founders […]

Katie Fyfe | The Journal Gazette Homestead teacher Megan Beckham's husband, Eric Beckham, surprises her with flowers after she received the SACS Teacher of the Year Award at Homestead High School on Wednesday. Previous Next Thursday, May 27, 2021 1:00 am Homestead Latin teacher wins SACS award Admits not feeling worthy due to pandemic challenges ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette As Megan Beckman clutched the Southwest Allen County Schools Teacher of the Year trophy Wednesday, she admitted she didn't always feel worthy of the honor. “Sometimes I felt like the worst...

Close Scientists at a company named 'Carbios' are attempting to break down plastic by using enzymes produced by micro-organisms. The details of their work were posted last year in Nature. According to the report, cutinase which is an enzyme microbes use to break down waxy coating on leaves can also break down PET into its monomers.  (Photo : Magda Ehlers) In the United States of America, only two kinds of plastic are commonly known to be recycled. They are the kind of plastics in the plastic soda bottles, polyethylene terephthalate, or PET; and the plastic found in milk jugs and detergent c...