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"Valley Of Souls" After getting cancelled thanks to last year’s coronavirus lockdowns, the San Francisco International Film Festival (hereafter SFFILM) returns this year with its 2021 edition.  Running from April 9-18, 2021, this year’s SFFILM mixes together online streaming and live events at the Fort Mason Center drive-in.  This year’s program presents 103 films from 41 different countries.  13 of these films are World Premieres. One of these World Premieres takes Opening Night honors at the Fort Mason Center venue.  Chase Palmer’s crime drama “Naked Singularity” stars John ...

by Steve Newton on April 7th, 2021 at 10:56 AM 1 of 4 2 of 4 The 2021 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, which streams online from May 6 to 16, has announced four films from this year's program. The featured documentaries include directors Paul Sng and Celeste Bell's Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché , which  chronicles the life of Anglo-Somali punk-rocker Poly Styrene, the influential frontwoman for 1970s British band X-Ray Spex .  Other highights of the festival are director Shannon Walsh’s The Gig is Up, which takes a close look at gig labour; Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers' Kímmapii...

Paccor CEO Andreas Schütte (Photo: Paccor) German packaging group Miko Pac (Oud-Turnhout / Belgium; www.mikopac.com), the plastic packaging division of Miko Group (Turnhout / Belgium; www.mikogroup.be). With the acquisition, Paccor plans to strengthen its international reach, particularly in the fast-growing Asian market, with Miko Pac’s plant in Indonesia. The acquisition, scheduled to be completed by Q2 2021, has been priced at approximately EUR 110m, according to Miko. The proposed transaction is yet to be approved by relevant competition authorities. Miko Group achieved a consol...

Tina  Though she’s officially retired now, Tina Turner remains one of the most empowering figures among women in rock, particularly since she overcame so many obstacles—not just race and gender bias, but leaving an artistic-marital relationship she’d previously been identified with—to achieve that status. This documentary by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin ( Undefeated,  LA 92) charts that fifty-year career in aptly celebratory terms. But at the same time, it’s also a somewhat problematic illustration of our cultural moment’s tendency to define someone by their victimization rath...

Electromagnetic shielding for computer chips (Photo: Laird) US chemical giant Laird Performance Materials (Shanghai; www.laird.com) for USD 2.3 bn in cash from private equity company Advent International (Boston, Massachusetts / USA; www.adventinternational.com). The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2021, subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions, DuPont said. Ed Breen, executive chairman and CEO of DuPont, said, “Laird Performance Materials is a strategic and complementary addition to the Electronics & Industrial (E&I) business, and our appli...