Entrants sought for 2009 Theodore Case Film Fest
The 2009 Theodore Case Film Festival seeks entries. The mission of Auburn's only home-grown film festival is to promote the creative efforts of central New York filmmakers ...
Cnylink: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:57:09 GMT |
Film follows woman's journey to implement change in Pakistan
The next film to stop in Alexandria on the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is the award-winning documentary "Shame." ...
The Alexandria Town Talk: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:52:12 GMT |
Funding and regulating a country's representation
Arab filmmakers from the Middle East and North Africa generate many films a year, which, like anywhere else, range in quality. There are no shortage of films but the Arab world has few symptoms of a "film industry." The most-developed Arab film industry - that is, with the complex of onshore infrastructure (from film schools and film-developing labs. ...
The Daily Star Lebannon: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:06:43 GMT |
Ethiopia: Country Liberalises Radio And Television May Follow, Supports Thriving Local Film Culture
London — The Ethiopian Government is best known for the tight control it has exerted over the political process of the country. ...
AllAfrica.com: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:30:44 GMT |
Detroiter makes documentary film about dangers of street racing
Paul Humphries Sr. wants Detroit's street racers off public roads. Humphries, 46, also known as "The Chevy Doctor," competed for money and pink slips on the service drives of the Motor City from the late 1970s through the mid-'80s before quitting. ...
Detroit Free Press: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:10:11 GMT |
Teen film-makers focus on the Bay
A group of Torridge teenagers have been meeting every week since October to make a documentary film about the coast of North Devon. ...
North Devon Gazette & Advertiser: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:16:18 GMT |
OMB stops piracy of filmfest entries
Edu Manzano, chairman of the Optical Media Board, told the movie press that his office’s campaign against film pirates for the duration of the annual Metro Manila Film Festival has been very successful. ...
Manila Standard Today: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:58:19 GMT |
UNRWA: We Don't Allow Terrorists in UN Schools
(IsraelNN.com) United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) spokesman Chris Gunness said terrorists are not allowed in its schools, and he demanded an "impartial" probe into IDF reports that Hamas shot mortars next to a school. He said he did not know off hand what constitutes an impartial body. ...
Israel National News: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:59:28 GMT |
Students film close-up portraits of Latinos
PLEASANTVILLE - With the premiere of three short films tonight, a group of college students will present close-up portraits of Latino immigrants in Westchester. ...
The Journal News: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:40:26 GMT |
Ivy rivalry
One-of-a-kind documentary takes you back to 1968 when Yale and Harvard, both undefeated, meet for one final game against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and a country in turmoil and transition. “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29,” being screened at the Jacob Burns Film Center at 5:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., features alums from both schools including star athlete Brian Dowling, Tommy Lee Jones, Al Gore, ... ...
The Journal News: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:09:35 GMT |
Refinance As Low As 5.48% - Sponsored Link
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Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:04:00 GMT |
Our View: Colleges face fiscal crisis
much more tuition than Californians do. But it's not as if the state's private colleges and schools are immune from the financial mess. Those colleges with formerly massive endowments, with most of the money made on Wall Street, have seen those ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:04:00 GMT |
Letters - Wednesday
to operate schools for Americans Eric Christen wrote a great piece regarding the state of our government education system ('Public education problems a result of system's design,' Other Voices, Jan. 3). His ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:04:00 GMT |
Bulgaria takes emergency measures to deal with gas crisis
through Ukraine. Suspension of natural gas supplies from Russia forced the Bulgarian government to order rationing for utilities, schools and hospitals. Energy and Economy Minister Peter Dimitrov signed an ordinance Wednesday night during a meeting with ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:04:00 GMT |
Jon Friedman's Media Web: Madoff the movie -- who should play the Satan of Wall Street?
their other virtues, can help to immortalize a subject for the public. When it comes to biopics, as film biographies are called, what we remember seeing on the screen eventually shapes our everlasting opinions about the good, the bad and the ugly ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:04:00 GMT |
The needless Gaza tragedy
a durable truce in Gaza. As the deaths of 40 people from Israel's shelling of United Nations schools in Gaza demonstrated earlier this week, civilians are paying a terrible price for the failure of their leaders to renew peacefully the six-month truce ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:04:00 GMT |
Priszm Income Fund Earns Top PETA Award for Taking the Lead on Animal Welfare
Proggy Awards have gone to producers and marketers of vegan foods, leather-free shoes, and cruelty-free personal-care products; a film production company that makes lifelike animatronic animals; and a member of the U.S. Congress. For more information and ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:04:00 GMT |
Leading the nation
U.S. Cellular will continue its Calling All Communities Campaign. The event allows communities to vote for their schools by mailing a postage-paid postcard ballot, which can be found at any U.S. Cellular location. The top 10 schools will each receive ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:04:00 GMT |
Area baseball teams come together for charity
The high school baseball season is more than a month away, but four high schools in Covina will gather together later this month for a charity event. Baseball teams from Charter Oak, Northview, South Hills and Covina have scheduled a charity ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:04:00 GMT |
Computer puzzle may ease post-traumatic stress
and an exaggerated startle response. People also can persistently relive the traumatic event. The Oxford team showed a film to 40 healthy volunteers that included traumatic images of injury from several sources, including advertisements on the dangers of ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:04:00 GMT |
Prime U: Deion hosting prep school for NFL hopefuls
help to me. I talk to him at least twice a week. I'll even send him game film, and he'll give me feedback just like I get from my coaches on things he sees ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:03:00 GMT |
Video: Sarah Palin: Media Goes Easy on Kennedy
under such a microscope,' Palin told conservative filmmaker John Ziegler during an interview Monday for his upcoming documentary film, 'How Obama Got Elected.' Excerpts from the interview were posted on YouTube Wednesday evening. 'It's going to be ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:03:00 GMT |
Let's not get blinded by glow of charter schools
public education. Here are some other issues that need to be studied: the number of students who enter schools and then are asked to leave when they have problems, the amount of money charter schools receive from private foundations that are anti-union, ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:03:00 GMT |
Find more ways to bring lessons to public schools
NO ONE can gainsay Scot Lehigh's argument that the cap on the number of charter schools should be lifted (',' Jan. 7). But he ignores the more crucial point that ways must be found to identify the factors underlying the better outcomes achieved by ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:03:00 GMT |
Gators Chomp Sooners In BCS Championship
Tech beat No. 12 Cincinnati 20-7 in the Orange Bowl, joining Southern California and Texas as the only schools to win 10 games in each of the past five seasons. The Hokies (10-4) forced Cincinnati quarterback Tony Pike into a season-high four ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:03:00 GMT |
They should compete on level playing field
SCOT LEHIGH gives a convincing portrayal of the virtues of charter schools in . I only wish he'd told the whole story. The two biggest objections to lifting the cap on the creation of more charter schools involve dollars and dropouts. Charter ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:03:00 GMT |
The secret to success? Opportunity (and luck)
shot at getting coaching. There is the computer bought for Bill Gates's high school long before other schools had such equipment. There is also the cultural luck of the draw: the language that gives Chinese students a leg up on math and the 'rice paddy' ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:03:00 GMT |
AZ teen pregnancy rate up; local school educates teens about pregnancy & child care
are giving birth. That's an increase of 6.5 percent, nearly twice the national average. Several local schools have programs to educate teens about pregnancy and child care. But one school in particular is taking the program to a new level. It's Canyon ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:03:00 GMT |
The flood that paralyzed Snoqualmie
water volume in 20 years. But it knocked out power to nearly all of downtown Snoqualmie, shutting down schools, restaurants, cafes, stores and traffic lights. It forced residents to evacuate and even moved City Hall employees for most of Thursday. As for ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:03:00 GMT |
Obama urges spending jolt to avert long recession
of free-market economic theory. Obama has already vowed a nationwide program of repairs to 'crumbling' roads, bridges and schools, a rollout of broadband Internet across rural America and federal aid to cash-strapped US states. In the speech, he pledged ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:03:00 GMT |
Chinese-speaking Australian PM sparks Asian studies boom
year ago, quickly put in place a 62 million dollar (44 million US) Asian languages programme for high schools. By 2020 the programme aims to have 12 percent of school-leavers fluent in either Mandarin, Japanese, Indonesian or Korean. 'This is the Asia ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:02:00 GMT |
Performance Food Group Announces New East Region President
than 68,000 national and private label food and food-related products to over 41,000 restaurants, hotels, cafeterias, schools, healthcare and other institutions. Vistar is the leading specialty food distributor to the vending, office coffee services, ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:02:00 GMT |
Freman Hendrix: the second time around
whole career. I've raised my family here. I never left the city. Things got tough - crime, schools. We didn't head for the hills. We stayed right here and buckled down and joined with other families and our neighbors all across the city to fight back. And ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:01:00 GMT |
J.T. Ellison and Laura Bendict
Don?t you just hate it when that old, long-forgotten X-rated film you made years ago gets dragged up again? In J.T. Ellison?s The Judas Kiss, just released this week, Nashville homicide investigator Lieutenant Taylor Jackson is investigating the ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:01:00 GMT |
Ant Farm 1969-1971: Early Underground Adventures with Space, Land, and Time
ground, might want to head down to Aurora Picture Show?s ?Video Salon? event to see the documentary film . Ant Farm is the name of the San Francisco performance art, architecture and video collective that created Cadillac Ranch. Filmmaker Laura ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:01:00 GMT |
Polar-Palooza
latest information on what?s going on with our icy top and bottom. Free screenings of the full-dome planetarium film Ice Worlds bookend the presentation. 6:30 p.m. Houston Museum of Natural Science, One Hermann Circle Drive, in Hermann Park. For ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:01:00 GMT |
Parents Discuss New High School Boundaries
in this area would be split among the new school, as well as La Quinta and Indio high schools. Students west of Jefferson and north of I-10 and those east of Jefferson and north of Fred Waring and Indio will attend the new school under both plans. Yet, ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:01:00 GMT |
In Which We Serve
Screenwriter and actor Nol Coward got co-directing credit, but most consider the 1942 a David Lean film. Based loosely on the true adventures of Louis Mountbatten, the rah-rah Serve chronicles life on board a fictional wartime destroyer, the HMS ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:01:00 GMT |
The Globes are back in a partying mood
year, the shindigs are back but not at all at full force, and some longtime players on the film side are noticeably absent. Come Sunday night, NBC/Universal/Focus is back with a rooftop bash co-sponsored by Cartier. InStyle and Warner Bros. are back in ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT |
2.2bn Birmingham highways PFI halted over funding worries...
the second major PFI scheme in Birmingham to derail at the final bend. The 1.2bn Birmingham Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme was also put on hold in December, the day before its preferred bidder was to be revealed. At the time the council ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT |
Forgiven in Gran Torino
the earlier one did on his westerns. I'm not sure if Gran Torino is Eastwood's 'best' film, to whatever extent such trivial distinctions matter. Certainly, it's a rougher, less formally elegant one than the masterly Unforgiven and A Perfect World. But ...
Moreover: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT |
