Iranian human rights advocate and freedom fighter Narges Mohammadi has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, organizers of the award said Friday.
The Norwegian Nobel committee that awards the prize lauded Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.”
It highlighted: “Altogether, the regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.” Mohammadi is still in prison.
The prize also “recognizes the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated against the theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression targeting women,” the committee noted.
Iran has also been in focus for various Hollywood stars. For example, early this year, Cate Blanchett, Jason Momoa, Samuel L. Jackson, Jada Pinkett Smith and Bryan Cranston were among members of the entertainment industry publicly supporting calls to end Iran‘s execution of protestors,...
The Norwegian Nobel committee that awards the prize lauded Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.”
It highlighted: “Altogether, the regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.” Mohammadi is still in prison.
The prize also “recognizes the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated against the theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression targeting women,” the committee noted.
Iran has also been in focus for various Hollywood stars. For example, early this year, Cate Blanchett, Jason Momoa, Samuel L. Jackson, Jada Pinkett Smith and Bryan Cranston were among members of the entertainment industry publicly supporting calls to end Iran‘s execution of protestors,...
- 10/6/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In 2007, Huston led a letter campaign organized by the US Campaign for Burma and the Human Rights Action Center. The letter, signed by over 25 other Hollywood profiles, was addressed to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and urged him to “personally intervene” to secure the release of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma.
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Charities & foundations supported
Anjelica Huston has supported the following charities:
Barbara Davis Center for Childhood DiabetesNYCLASSOceanaPETASave the ChimpsTigerTimeUNICEFUS Campaign for Burma Read more about Anjelica Huston's charity work and events. Related articles Angelica Huston Makes Ape Cruelty VideoGet Ready For The Carousel Of Hope This WeekendToronto Film Festival To Host Cinema Against AIDSCharitable Celebrities To Receive 21st Century Leaders AwardsStars Come Out For Annual Gorbachev Charity Gala
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- 9/20/2023
- Look to the Stars
Michelle Yeoh played Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, in The Lady (2010), directed by Luc Besson Photo: UniFrance
After winning the Oscar for Best Actress for superhero comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once at the Academy Awards, Michelle Yeoh will be strutting her stuff at the Cannes Film Festival as the latest recipient of the 2023 Women in Motion Award, sponsored by luxury brand Kering.
Michelle Yeoh: "It’s vital that women - in front of the camera and behind it - keep playing roles and telling stories that reflect the diversity and complexity of the world.” Photo: UniFrance
Born in Malaysia, Yeoh was first person of south-east Asian descent to win the Best Actress Oscar, for her role as laundromat manager Evelyn Wang, who stumbles across a 'multiverse' of alternative realities.
Yeoh defeated strong competition for the Oscar, including Cate Blanchett for Tár and Michelle Williams for The Fabelmans.
After winning the Oscar for Best Actress for superhero comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once at the Academy Awards, Michelle Yeoh will be strutting her stuff at the Cannes Film Festival as the latest recipient of the 2023 Women in Motion Award, sponsored by luxury brand Kering.
Michelle Yeoh: "It’s vital that women - in front of the camera and behind it - keep playing roles and telling stories that reflect the diversity and complexity of the world.” Photo: UniFrance
Born in Malaysia, Yeoh was first person of south-east Asian descent to win the Best Actress Oscar, for her role as laundromat manager Evelyn Wang, who stumbles across a 'multiverse' of alternative realities.
Yeoh defeated strong competition for the Oscar, including Cate Blanchett for Tár and Michelle Williams for The Fabelmans.
- 4/6/2023
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Just how intimate would you like your relationship with Bono to get? Because there are moments during U2’s latest release – a lo-fi reimagining of their stadium rockers – when his stadium-weary croon is so high in The Edge’s production mix that you can practically feel his stubble brushing your earlobes. Listening to Songs of Surrender with airpods almost made me reach for a Q-tip to wipe away his spittle from my eardrums.
The idea for the album – which features 40 unplugged versions of classics like “One”, “Beautiful Day” and “Pride (In the Name of Love)” alongside deeper cuts from the band’s long career – arose in the muffled mood of lockdown. Maybe the earnest, common room strumming and sombre piano would have resonated more powerfully had it been released back then, when time bent to make sense of such lengthy releases. But it’s 2023 now, and we need the wide-horizon...
The idea for the album – which features 40 unplugged versions of classics like “One”, “Beautiful Day” and “Pride (In the Name of Love)” alongside deeper cuts from the band’s long career – arose in the muffled mood of lockdown. Maybe the earnest, common room strumming and sombre piano would have resonated more powerfully had it been released back then, when time bent to make sense of such lengthy releases. But it’s 2023 now, and we need the wide-horizon...
- 3/16/2023
- by Helen Brown
- The Independent - Music
The Malaysia-born Oscar winner, who has become the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her multifaceted performance, survived the deadly earthquake that struck Nepal while she was visiting the landlocked Himalayan nation in April 2015. Survivor of the devastating earthquake, actress Michelle Yeoh, famous for her roles in James Bond film ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ and ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’, has won the Academy Award for Best Actress and made history for her role in ‘Everything, Everywhere All At Once’.
Michelle Yeoh has an India connect too. In the ‘background’ of her life is Buddhist leader Gyalwang Drukpa, the spiritual head of the Drukpa Order based in India with over 1,000 monasteries across the Himalayas.
A disciple of His Holiness, in 2015, Michelle raised charity from Hollywood for Nepal earthquake victims on the advice of Gyalwang Drukpa for his ‘Live to Love’ foundation.
At that time she was...
Michelle Yeoh has an India connect too. In the ‘background’ of her life is Buddhist leader Gyalwang Drukpa, the spiritual head of the Drukpa Order based in India with over 1,000 monasteries across the Himalayas.
A disciple of His Holiness, in 2015, Michelle raised charity from Hollywood for Nepal earthquake victims on the advice of Gyalwang Drukpa for his ‘Live to Love’ foundation.
At that time she was...
- 3/13/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
When he decided to return to his country of birth, Myanmar, in 2017, Kyaw Htay Oo knew there was a chance he could end up back in prison. No one who grows up in that country has any illusions about its political stability, or where you might land the next time power flips, the next time the jailers become the jailed. But after fourteen years in southern California, where he worked as a botanist and agricultural inspector for Los Angeles County and became a U.S. citizen who loves cars and long California road trips,...
- 9/29/2022
- by Michael Ames
- Rollingstone.com
Affecting documentary focuses on the family of the WikiLeaks founder, with whom it is perhaps easier to sympathise
The trials of Julian Assange go on: there is no end in sight to his incarceration on remand in London’s brutal Belmarsh prison pending the renewal of the US government’s extradition request, which almost certainly would put him in an American supermax jail for the rest of his life. This film, directed by Ben Lawrence and produced by Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton, tells the heart-rending personal story of his family’s battle to free him.
No public figure has had a more wildly fluctuating reputation on the political stock exchange, with the possible exception of Aung San Suu Kyi. As one media pundit says here: people have almost forgotten what they think of Assange. In 2010, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks sensationally exposed evidence of US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq,...
The trials of Julian Assange go on: there is no end in sight to his incarceration on remand in London’s brutal Belmarsh prison pending the renewal of the US government’s extradition request, which almost certainly would put him in an American supermax jail for the rest of his life. This film, directed by Ben Lawrence and produced by Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton, tells the heart-rending personal story of his family’s battle to free him.
No public figure has had a more wildly fluctuating reputation on the political stock exchange, with the possible exception of Aung San Suu Kyi. As one media pundit says here: people have almost forgotten what they think of Assange. In 2010, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks sensationally exposed evidence of US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq,...
- 7/6/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Echoes Of The Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan
It has long been regarded as one of the world’s great wildernesses, a mysterious nation whose people, once regarded with fear and awe across a continent, rarely find a place in modern discourse. Robert H Lieberman’s documentary sets out to change that, taking viewers on a journey through Mongolia past and present. Echoes Of The Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan is one of a series of such films he was made, following They Call It Myanmar: Lifting The Curtain and Angkor Awakens: A Portrait Of Cambodia. When we met up to talk, I began by asking him why Mongolia was next in line.
“I'm drawn to places that are off the beaten path,” he says. “Places that are inaccessible. I started They Call It Myanmar with Aung San Suu Kyi, and at the time, you were not allowed to film there, of course.
It has long been regarded as one of the world’s great wildernesses, a mysterious nation whose people, once regarded with fear and awe across a continent, rarely find a place in modern discourse. Robert H Lieberman’s documentary sets out to change that, taking viewers on a journey through Mongolia past and present. Echoes Of The Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan is one of a series of such films he was made, following They Call It Myanmar: Lifting The Curtain and Angkor Awakens: A Portrait Of Cambodia. When we met up to talk, I began by asking him why Mongolia was next in line.
“I'm drawn to places that are off the beaten path,” he says. “Places that are inaccessible. I started They Call It Myanmar with Aung San Suu Kyi, and at the time, you were not allowed to film there, of course.
- 6/2/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Film producer Ma Aeint has been sentenced to three years of jail, with hard labor, by a court in Yangon, Myanmar.
Ma Aeint is the producer of the film “Money Has Four Legs,” which was directed by Maung Sun and began screening at festivals in 2020 before Myanmar suffered a military coup in early 2021.
The pair also co-wrote the script, which centers on a filmmaker coming to terms with the realities of making a debut film and facing down censorship authorities. The criminal case was not directly related to the film, though it may have made Ma Aeint a target for attention.
She was found guilty on Friday of breaching Article 505A of Myanmar’s criminal code, which penalizes “causing fear, spreading fake news or agitating against government employees.” She was alleged to have given money to an illegal organization that opposes the Feb. 1, 2021 coup and the return of the country to totalitarian military control.
Ma Aeint is the producer of the film “Money Has Four Legs,” which was directed by Maung Sun and began screening at festivals in 2020 before Myanmar suffered a military coup in early 2021.
The pair also co-wrote the script, which centers on a filmmaker coming to terms with the realities of making a debut film and facing down censorship authorities. The criminal case was not directly related to the film, though it may have made Ma Aeint a target for attention.
She was found guilty on Friday of breaching Article 505A of Myanmar’s criminal code, which penalizes “causing fear, spreading fake news or agitating against government employees.” She was alleged to have given money to an illegal organization that opposes the Feb. 1, 2021 coup and the return of the country to totalitarian military control.
- 4/29/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The 67-year-old woman stands alongside an open-backed truck in a city under martial law fearlessly berating the young paramilitary policemen sat impassively behind the wood and steel bars that hold them back – for now.
She is somebody’s daughter, probably wife, mother, grandmother.
“You’re protecting the dictator, General Min Aung Hlaing!” she shouts wagging her finger like a fierce school ma’am of old.
The at times shaky mobile phone footage is among the viscerally powerful opening shots of Berlinale Panorama documentary “Myanmar Diaries.”
“We cry for the girl that was shot in the head. They shot her on purpose…. Don’t follow orders blindly, you should know what is right or wrong!”
Yangon, Myanmar: Less than three weeks after a military government under General Hlaing had seized power in a coup d’état Feb. 1, 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic is at its height and everyone is wearing masks to protect against Coronavirus.
She is somebody’s daughter, probably wife, mother, grandmother.
“You’re protecting the dictator, General Min Aung Hlaing!” she shouts wagging her finger like a fierce school ma’am of old.
The at times shaky mobile phone footage is among the viscerally powerful opening shots of Berlinale Panorama documentary “Myanmar Diaries.”
“We cry for the girl that was shot in the head. They shot her on purpose…. Don’t follow orders blindly, you should know what is right or wrong!”
Yangon, Myanmar: Less than three weeks after a military government under General Hlaing had seized power in a coup d’état Feb. 1, 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic is at its height and everyone is wearing masks to protect against Coronavirus.
- 2/15/2022
- by Nick Holdsworth
- Variety Film + TV
Two years ago this month, the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar witnessed a coup d’état, in which the Tatmadaw (the military) seized power from the democratically elected National League for Democracy and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Since then, the military has brutally set about maintaining its power, cracking down on all dissenters including artists and the press. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), a non-profit that tracks the events as they unfold, estimates that more than 9,000 political prisoners have been arrested, charged or sentenced by the regime, and more than 1,500 have been killed.
The situation may be grave, but many are beginning to resist the regime and fight back, despite the potentially lethal cost. An underground resistance movement has been making inroads, forming the National Unity Government (Nug), which in September declared a people’s “resistance war” against the military.
Others making their mark include the anonymous Myanmar Film Collective,...
Since then, the military has brutally set about maintaining its power, cracking down on all dissenters including artists and the press. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), a non-profit that tracks the events as they unfold, estimates that more than 9,000 political prisoners have been arrested, charged or sentenced by the regime, and more than 1,500 have been killed.
The situation may be grave, but many are beginning to resist the regime and fight back, despite the potentially lethal cost. An underground resistance movement has been making inroads, forming the National Unity Government (Nug), which in September declared a people’s “resistance war” against the military.
Others making their mark include the anonymous Myanmar Film Collective,...
- 2/12/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
In 2015, tens of thousands of Rohingya people fled their homeland of Myanmar. Buddhist extremists actively campaigned for this majority Muslim peoples’ demise. Despite Aung San Suu Kyi’s promises of democracy, governmental and military institutions devoted themselves to mass arson, forced displacement, and apartheid-like discrimination. At the time, news coverage of the ethnic cleansing flooded the Western media. National Geographic, PBS, Vice, and even Ai Weiwei have released documentaries about the mass exodus. The rest of the world turned their eyes to the Rohingya refugee crisis.
But what about those who stayed?
“Midwives” is playing in the Sundance World Cinema – Documentary Competition. This film’s distribution is managed by Dogwoof.
Myanmar-based filmmaker Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing investigates this in her documentary debut, “Midwives,” which is now playing in the Sundance World Cinema – Documentary Competition. Here, she follows two women – one Buddhist (Hla) and one Muslim (Nyo Nyo) – in a Rakhine State village.
But what about those who stayed?
“Midwives” is playing in the Sundance World Cinema – Documentary Competition. This film’s distribution is managed by Dogwoof.
Myanmar-based filmmaker Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing investigates this in her documentary debut, “Midwives,” which is now playing in the Sundance World Cinema – Documentary Competition. Here, she follows two women – one Buddhist (Hla) and one Muslim (Nyo Nyo) – in a Rakhine State village.
- 1/27/2022
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
PBS’s long-running documentary showcase “Pov” has picked up Sundance documentary contender “Midwives.”
Directed by Snow Hnin El Hlaing and filmed over five years, the film — which premiered on Monday as part of the World Documentary Competition at the virtual Sundance Film Festival — is set in western Myanmar and tells the story of a makeshift medical clinic run by two women, Hla and Nyo Nyo, in a region torn apart by violent ethnic divisions.
Hla, the owner of the clinic, is a Buddhist in the western region of the country, where Muslim minority community the Rohingya are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Muslim and an apprentice ze who acts as an assistant and translator at the clinic. Her family has lived in the area for generations, yet they’re still considered intruders.
Encouraged and challenged by Hla, who risks her own safety daily by helping Muslim patients,...
Directed by Snow Hnin El Hlaing and filmed over five years, the film — which premiered on Monday as part of the World Documentary Competition at the virtual Sundance Film Festival — is set in western Myanmar and tells the story of a makeshift medical clinic run by two women, Hla and Nyo Nyo, in a region torn apart by violent ethnic divisions.
Hla, the owner of the clinic, is a Buddhist in the western region of the country, where Muslim minority community the Rohingya are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Muslim and an apprentice ze who acts as an assistant and translator at the clinic. Her family has lived in the area for generations, yet they’re still considered intruders.
Encouraged and challenged by Hla, who risks her own safety daily by helping Muslim patients,...
- 1/26/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Former Myanmar Leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was deposed by a military coup in February this year, has been given a four-year jail term for crimes of dissent and breaking Covid rules.
The charges, which were described today as “bogus” by an Amnesty International spokesperson, are the first of 11 faced by Suu Kyi, which could result in her being placed in jail for life. Her supporters claim the military regime is planning to give her 100+ years of sentences.
Win Myint, the former president of Myanmar and an ally of Suu Kyi, has also been jailed for four years.
Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since the coup last year, which saw Myanmar’s military, the Tatmadaw, overthrow the democratically elected National League for Democracy (Nld). The Tatmadaw’s allegations of electoral fraud in last year’s general elections, which the Nld won by a landslide, have been discredited by independent observers.
The charges, which were described today as “bogus” by an Amnesty International spokesperson, are the first of 11 faced by Suu Kyi, which could result in her being placed in jail for life. Her supporters claim the military regime is planning to give her 100+ years of sentences.
Win Myint, the former president of Myanmar and an ally of Suu Kyi, has also been jailed for four years.
Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since the coup last year, which saw Myanmar’s military, the Tatmadaw, overthrow the democratically elected National League for Democracy (Nld). The Tatmadaw’s allegations of electoral fraud in last year’s general elections, which the Nld won by a landslide, have been discredited by independent observers.
- 12/6/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Four rock musicians met secretly at an abandoned house in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar. It was March 7th, just over a month after the country’s military had seized power in a pre-dawn coup, and they were there to record a song about security forces shooting to kill. They called it Headshot and the chorus went:
Give us back our democracy. Now!
Release every innocent one you captured. Now!
Whose power was taken away? Ours!
We, the people, have the power
Down with the military regime, the war-dogs...
Give us back our democracy. Now!
Release every innocent one you captured. Now!
Whose power was taken away? Ours!
We, the people, have the power
Down with the military regime, the war-dogs...
- 9/6/2021
- by Emily Fishbein and Athens Zaw Zaw
- Rollingstone.com
Myanmar director Maung Sun says he fears for the future of his writing and producing partner Ma Aeint who now faces charges brought by the military junta.
Ma Aeint was arrested in early June in Yangon and was held for a month in judicial detention. She has since been transferred to the notorious Insein Prison, where she is being treated as a political prisoner.
Maung Sun was recently able to travel from Myanmar to Europe where he is attending the Residence component of the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation training and development program. He is now in Switzerland, where “Money Has Four Legs” is to be screened at the Locarno Film Festival.
Ma Aeint and Maung Sun jointly wrote the film about a filmmaker facing up to the realities of making a debut film and facing down the censorship authorities. Maung Sun directed the picture, with Ma Aeint directing.
The...
Ma Aeint was arrested in early June in Yangon and was held for a month in judicial detention. She has since been transferred to the notorious Insein Prison, where she is being treated as a political prisoner.
Maung Sun was recently able to travel from Myanmar to Europe where he is attending the Residence component of the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation training and development program. He is now in Switzerland, where “Money Has Four Legs” is to be screened at the Locarno Film Festival.
Ma Aeint and Maung Sun jointly wrote the film about a filmmaker facing up to the realities of making a debut film and facing down the censorship authorities. Maung Sun directed the picture, with Ma Aeint directing.
The...
- 8/4/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Rising filmmaker Ma Aeint has disappeared without trace after being arrested by authorities in Myanmar earlier this month. Her family has no knowledge of her whereabouts, nor formal explanation for her sudden detention.
Ma Aient was a producer and co-writer on “Money Has Four Legs,” which appeared in the New Currents competition at the Busan International Film festival in 2020. She was also a regular participant at co-production and project promotion events intended to boost independent film making in Asia. These included the Seafic Open Fair, Ties That Bind, Famu Summer Filmmaking Initiation Campus and the Locarno Festival’s Open Doors consultancy.
She was picked up by authorities in Yangon shortly after leaving home around midday on June 5, 2021. The next day, family members in Myanmar were informed of her arrest. They were told that she is being housed at an undisclosed place of interrogation. There has not been any communication with her since her disappearance.
Ma Aient was a producer and co-writer on “Money Has Four Legs,” which appeared in the New Currents competition at the Busan International Film festival in 2020. She was also a regular participant at co-production and project promotion events intended to boost independent film making in Asia. These included the Seafic Open Fair, Ties That Bind, Famu Summer Filmmaking Initiation Campus and the Locarno Festival’s Open Doors consultancy.
She was picked up by authorities in Yangon shortly after leaving home around midday on June 5, 2021. The next day, family members in Myanmar were informed of her arrest. They were told that she is being housed at an undisclosed place of interrogation. There has not been any communication with her since her disappearance.
- 6/8/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
International film festival organizers express solidarity with the people of Myanmar.
International film festival organisers in South Korea have expressed solidarity with the people of Myanmar - and the filmmakers fighting for democracy - in the face of crackdowns from the military junta that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government on February 1.
Eleven of South Korea’s most prominent film festivals, including Busan, Jeonju and Bucheon, released a joint statement that said: “Korean film festivals express solidarity and encouragement to the people of Myanmar, standing in their brave steps towards democracy.
“The festivals strongly condemn the ruthless massacre...
International film festival organisers in South Korea have expressed solidarity with the people of Myanmar - and the filmmakers fighting for democracy - in the face of crackdowns from the military junta that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government on February 1.
Eleven of South Korea’s most prominent film festivals, including Busan, Jeonju and Bucheon, released a joint statement that said: “Korean film festivals express solidarity and encouragement to the people of Myanmar, standing in their brave steps towards democracy.
“The festivals strongly condemn the ruthless massacre...
- 4/20/2021
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
International film festival organizers express solidarity with the people of Myanmar.
International film festival organizers in Korea have expressed solidarity with the people of Myanmar - and the filmmakers fighting for democracy - in the face of crackdowns from the military junta that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government on February 1.
Eleven of South Korea’s most prominent film festivals, including Busan, Jeonju and Bucheon, released a joint statement that said: “Korean film festivals express solidarity and encouragement to the people of Myanmar, standing in their brave steps towards democracy.
“The festivals strongly condemn the ruthless massacre against...
International film festival organizers in Korea have expressed solidarity with the people of Myanmar - and the filmmakers fighting for democracy - in the face of crackdowns from the military junta that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government on February 1.
Eleven of South Korea’s most prominent film festivals, including Busan, Jeonju and Bucheon, released a joint statement that said: “Korean film festivals express solidarity and encouragement to the people of Myanmar, standing in their brave steps towards democracy.
“The festivals strongly condemn the ruthless massacre against...
- 4/20/2021
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
The situation in Myanmar remains dire, the International Coalition of Film makers at Risk (Icfr) has warned, with prominent cultural figures continuing to be imprisoned, and in some instances even killed. To date, more than 100 professionals from the local filmmaking community have been targeted for arrest, it said.
As Deadline reported in February, the country’s military forces, known as the Tatmadaw, seized power in the country after disputing an election result back in November that saw a landslide win for Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, the Nld.
Widespread demonstrations in response to the action saw thousands of protestors thrown in jail and reportedly more than 700 deaths, while three prominent members of the Nld also died in police custody, according to Reuters.
The Icfr said that the first day of the coup saw three writers – Than Myint Aung, Maung Thar Cho and Htin Lin Oo – arrested along with...
As Deadline reported in February, the country’s military forces, known as the Tatmadaw, seized power in the country after disputing an election result back in November that saw a landslide win for Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, the Nld.
Widespread demonstrations in response to the action saw thousands of protestors thrown in jail and reportedly more than 700 deaths, while three prominent members of the Nld also died in police custody, according to Reuters.
The Icfr said that the first day of the coup saw three writers – Than Myint Aung, Maung Thar Cho and Htin Lin Oo – arrested along with...
- 4/20/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
On the morning of February 1st, the people of Myanmar awoke to the news that life as they knew it had come to an end. The internet was cut, phone lines were down, and a military-run TV channel announced a one-year state of emergency in which the country would be run by Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing. Before that broadcast, the military had rounded up leaders of the country’s civilian party, the National League for Democracy, in early morning raids, detaining them along with activists, public intellectuals, and other politicians.
- 4/1/2021
- by Alex Morris
- Rollingstone.com
Earlier this month, the military seized power in Myanmar. Citing irregularities in their November elections, they detained the de facto head of state, Aung San Suu Kyi, along with other members of her governing party, the National Movement for Democracy. A one-year state of emergency was declared.Like many Americans, peering out from behind the fog of our own transition of power, frightening and inane as it was, I had no idea what to make of these events. Intermittently, I reached for a base of understanding from the few paradoxical fragments I could recall. Aung San Suu Kyi had won a Nobel Peace Prize, I knew. She had also presided over the genocide of the country’s Muslim ethnic minority, the Rohingya—a genocide which was unique to the extent that it was the first of such atrocities to be incited to a significant degree via Facebook. But my reflection...
- 2/28/2021
- MUBI
Nay Pyi Taw, Feb 21 (Ians) Facebook on Sunday removed the main news page run by Myanmar's military, citing violation of its rules prohibiting the incitement of violence.
The move comes a day after two people were killed protesting against the coup, the BBC reported.
"In line with our global policies, we've removed the Tatmadaw True News Information Team Page from Facebook for repeated violations of our Community Standards prohibiting incitement of violence and coordinating harm," Facebook said in a statement.
The military made use of the page to issue warnings to protesters and spread its allegations that the National League for Democracy's (Nld) win in the election last year was fraudulent.
The military has not provided any proof to back its allegations.
Earlier this month, the Myanmar military imposed a one-year state of emergency after detaining democratically-elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others.
Protests against the coup continued on...
The move comes a day after two people were killed protesting against the coup, the BBC reported.
"In line with our global policies, we've removed the Tatmadaw True News Information Team Page from Facebook for repeated violations of our Community Standards prohibiting incitement of violence and coordinating harm," Facebook said in a statement.
The military made use of the page to issue warnings to protesters and spread its allegations that the National League for Democracy's (Nld) win in the election last year was fraudulent.
The military has not provided any proof to back its allegations.
Earlier this month, the Myanmar military imposed a one-year state of emergency after detaining democratically-elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others.
Protests against the coup continued on...
- 2/21/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Nay Pyi Taw, Feb 4 (Ians) Myanmar has directed state-owned telecom companies to temporarily block Facebook until February 7 midnight, alleging that the social media giant is contributing to instability in the country.
Mpt, a leading state-owned telecom operator, has blocked Facebook as well as Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp on its network, reports NetBlocks that tracks global internet usage.
According to a report in TechCrunch, a Facebook spokesperson said late Wednesday that the company was "aware that access to Facebook is currently disrupted for some people".
Several users in the country reported that Facebook was "inaccessible on their phones".
According to BuzzFeed, Facebook has designated Myanmar a "temporary high-risk location" after a coup earlier this week.
Facebook's Asia-Pacific policy director, Rafael Frankel, has pledged to employ "a number of product interventions that were used in the past in Myanmar and during the US elections, to ensure the platform isn't being used to spread misinformation,...
Mpt, a leading state-owned telecom operator, has blocked Facebook as well as Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp on its network, reports NetBlocks that tracks global internet usage.
According to a report in TechCrunch, a Facebook spokesperson said late Wednesday that the company was "aware that access to Facebook is currently disrupted for some people".
Several users in the country reported that Facebook was "inaccessible on their phones".
According to BuzzFeed, Facebook has designated Myanmar a "temporary high-risk location" after a coup earlier this week.
Facebook's Asia-Pacific policy director, Rafael Frankel, has pledged to employ "a number of product interventions that were used in the past in Myanmar and during the US elections, to ensure the platform isn't being used to spread misinformation,...
- 2/4/2021
- by IANS
- GlamSham
On Monday, the recently elected government in Myanmar was overthrown by the military. According to the Associated Press, Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has taken power in the country for one year due to the military’s claims of the results of the November democratic election being fraudulent.
The country’s armed forces arrested civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate whose party, the National League for Democracy, won a majority in the parliament in 2015, as a result of Myanmar’s first recognized free election in 25 years.
The country’s armed forces arrested civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate whose party, the National League for Democracy, won a majority in the parliament in 2015, as a result of Myanmar’s first recognized free election in 25 years.
- 2/2/2021
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Military forces have seized control of the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, citing disputed claims of electoral fraud and throwing numerous high-profile figures in jail.
Among those to be imprisoned is the Nobel Prize-winning politician Aung San Suu Kyi, who helped the country transition to democracy in the 2010s and had been leading the nation as State Counsellor.
Reporting out of Myanmar has been hampered by the military’s disruption of phone and internet services, and local TV stations are also off air, but several publications have written that other figures believed to have been detained include the filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, who has previously spent time behind bars as a political prisoner for his criticism of the military, and the writer Maung Thar Cho.
Tensions have been bubbling in the country since a November election which saw a landslide win for Suu Kyi’s political party, the Nld,...
Among those to be imprisoned is the Nobel Prize-winning politician Aung San Suu Kyi, who helped the country transition to democracy in the 2010s and had been leading the nation as State Counsellor.
Reporting out of Myanmar has been hampered by the military’s disruption of phone and internet services, and local TV stations are also off air, but several publications have written that other figures believed to have been detained include the filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, who has previously spent time behind bars as a political prisoner for his criticism of the military, and the writer Maung Thar Cho.
Tensions have been bubbling in the country since a November election which saw a landslide win for Suu Kyi’s political party, the Nld,...
- 2/1/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Yangon, Dec 8 (Ians) Myanmar will hold the next parliamentary session in the first week of February 2021, state media reported on Tuesday.
The term of the current parliamentary session is set to conclude at the end of January next year, reports Xinhua news agency.
According to the 2008 Constitution, the first regular session of a new term of Parliament begins with the House of Representatives which needs t be held within 90 days after the commencement of the general elections.
Myanmar held its multi-party general elections on November 8.
The ruling National League for Democracy (Nld) party, led by State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi, won the majority of seats in both Houses of the Union Parliament.
The 2020 multi-party general elections were the third of its kind held under the terms of the country's 2008 constitution.
The general elections, which are held every five years, are to choose members of a new Parliament that will...
The term of the current parliamentary session is set to conclude at the end of January next year, reports Xinhua news agency.
According to the 2008 Constitution, the first regular session of a new term of Parliament begins with the House of Representatives which needs t be held within 90 days after the commencement of the general elections.
Myanmar held its multi-party general elections on November 8.
The ruling National League for Democracy (Nld) party, led by State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi, won the majority of seats in both Houses of the Union Parliament.
The 2020 multi-party general elections were the third of its kind held under the terms of the country's 2008 constitution.
The general elections, which are held every five years, are to choose members of a new Parliament that will...
- 12/8/2020
- by IANS
- GlamSham
The story of human rights lawyer Jared Genser, who has helped free political prisoners in a number of hot zones around the world, is being developed by Orlando Bloom with Amazon as a TV series.
The streamer is in the early stages of developing the Untitled Jared Genser Project, which will be exec produced by Carnival Row star Bloom and former HBO exec Bruce Richmond.
Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies and founder of Freedom Now. He was dubbed ‘The Extractor’ by the New York Times for his work freeing political prisoners.
His speciality is freeing prisoners of conscience and human rights prisoners in high-risk areas throughout the world’s most difficult hot zones, working with a core team of specialized operatives.
Clients have included former Czech Republic President Václav Havel, former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi,...
The streamer is in the early stages of developing the Untitled Jared Genser Project, which will be exec produced by Carnival Row star Bloom and former HBO exec Bruce Richmond.
Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies and founder of Freedom Now. He was dubbed ‘The Extractor’ by the New York Times for his work freeing political prisoners.
His speciality is freeing prisoners of conscience and human rights prisoners in high-risk areas throughout the world’s most difficult hot zones, working with a core team of specialized operatives.
Clients have included former Czech Republic President Václav Havel, former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi,...
- 8/31/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Filmmaker Alma Har’el helped conceive Time’s 100 Women of the Year issue, designed to recognize the contributions of female leaders, innovators, activists, entertainers, athletes and artists who defined the century from 1920 through 2019. Along with original portraits, the magazine will release 100 covers reflecting the era of each year.
“I don’t think Time has ever done anything this big,” “Honey Boy” director Har’el says, speaking exclusively to Variety. “They usually do one of these covers a year. We’re doing 100 of them.”
“If I felt hungry to take solace in some of the histories of some of these women, I immersed myself in it in the most encompassing way I could,” she adds. The idea was born out of Ha’rel’s frustration and a need to “do something that takes me outside of myself.”
Har’el spent much of 2019 on the awards trail discussing “Honey Boy,” a drama written by and starring Shia Labeouf.
“I don’t think Time has ever done anything this big,” “Honey Boy” director Har’el says, speaking exclusively to Variety. “They usually do one of these covers a year. We’re doing 100 of them.”
“If I felt hungry to take solace in some of the histories of some of these women, I immersed myself in it in the most encompassing way I could,” she adds. The idea was born out of Ha’rel’s frustration and a need to “do something that takes me outside of myself.”
Har’el spent much of 2019 on the awards trail discussing “Honey Boy,” a drama written by and starring Shia Labeouf.
- 3/5/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Brit scribe Rebecca Frayn, whose latest feature is the Keira Knightley-starring Misbehaviour which hits UK cinemas next week, is set to direct Spies, based on her father’s 2002 Whitbread Prize-winning novel.
Michael Frayn is handling the adaptation of his own work. The book follows a man as he relives his childhood experiences of the Second World War, retracing his steps as he tries to uncover the secrets of his best friend’s mother who they believe to be a German spy. Belinda Allen is producing the feature through her banner Middlemarch Films with Misbehaviour and The Crown producers Left Bank Pictures also aboard.
Final touches are being made to the screenplay and the team will soon go out to attach a lead actress. Frayn’s writing credits include Luc Besson’s Aung San Suu Kyi biography The Lady, and she has previously helmed several TV projects including one-off drama Whose Baby?...
Michael Frayn is handling the adaptation of his own work. The book follows a man as he relives his childhood experiences of the Second World War, retracing his steps as he tries to uncover the secrets of his best friend’s mother who they believe to be a German spy. Belinda Allen is producing the feature through her banner Middlemarch Films with Misbehaviour and The Crown producers Left Bank Pictures also aboard.
Final touches are being made to the screenplay and the team will soon go out to attach a lead actress. Frayn’s writing credits include Luc Besson’s Aung San Suu Kyi biography The Lady, and she has previously helmed several TV projects including one-off drama Whose Baby?...
- 3/4/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
A translation from Burmese to English posts on its platform rendered Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s name to appear as “Mr. S–thole” for a few days.
Xi was visiting Burma to sign infrastructure deals with Burmese state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi. Facebook users who used the software to translate headlines from local media outlets reporting that news saw such phrases as “Dinner honors President s–thole.”
Suu Kyi’s official Facebook page was also filled with the mistranslation as she posted about her time with Xi.
Facebook has apologized, and claims that President Xi Jinping’s name was not in its Burmese database. That left the site to guess the translation. Testing the translations of similar words starting with “xi” and “shi” brought the same “sh–thole” results, it claimed.
“We fixed a technical issue that caused incorrect translations from Burmese to English on Facebook,” Facebook said. “This...
Xi was visiting Burma to sign infrastructure deals with Burmese state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi. Facebook users who used the software to translate headlines from local media outlets reporting that news saw such phrases as “Dinner honors President s–thole.”
Suu Kyi’s official Facebook page was also filled with the mistranslation as she posted about her time with Xi.
Facebook has apologized, and claims that President Xi Jinping’s name was not in its Burmese database. That left the site to guess the translation. Testing the translations of similar words starting with “xi” and “shi” brought the same “sh–thole” results, it claimed.
“We fixed a technical issue that caused incorrect translations from Burmese to English on Facebook,” Facebook said. “This...
- 1/19/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi is suffering from liver cancer.
The organisers of Filmfest Hamburg are substituting the gifts to filmmaker guests with a financial donation towards the costs of medical expenses for the imprisoned Myanmar filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi.
The gesture, which includes bouquets of flowers at the festival’s premiere screenings and award ceremonies, is a show of solidarity with the director who is suffering from liver cancer.
Ko Ko Gyi, who is also the founder of the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, had been in pre-trial custody since last April. He was sentenced...
The organisers of Filmfest Hamburg are substituting the gifts to filmmaker guests with a financial donation towards the costs of medical expenses for the imprisoned Myanmar filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi.
The gesture, which includes bouquets of flowers at the festival’s premiere screenings and award ceremonies, is a show of solidarity with the director who is suffering from liver cancer.
Ko Ko Gyi, who is also the founder of the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, had been in pre-trial custody since last April. He was sentenced...
- 10/1/2019
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi is suffering from liver cancer.
The organisers of Filmfest Hamburg are substituting the gifts to filmmaker guests with a financial donation towards the costs of medical expenses for the imprisoned Myanmar filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi.
The gesture, which includes bouquets of flowers at the festival’s premiere screenings and award ceremonies, is a show of solidarity with the director who is suffering from liver cancer.
Ko Ko Gyi, who is also the founder of the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, had been in pre-trial custody since last April. He was sentenced...
The organisers of Filmfest Hamburg are substituting the gifts to filmmaker guests with a financial donation towards the costs of medical expenses for the imprisoned Myanmar filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi.
The gesture, which includes bouquets of flowers at the festival’s premiere screenings and award ceremonies, is a show of solidarity with the director who is suffering from liver cancer.
Ko Ko Gyi, who is also the founder of the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, had been in pre-trial custody since last April. He was sentenced...
- 10/1/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Every day always provides the most relevant lessons. Therefore, whatever you learn should sharpen your brain and equip you with useful knowledge for future application. Asian countries have a history of making movies that are influential in the academic fields and the entertainment industry in general. Here are some of the good films to watch from Asia that are worth to buy and watch with your dearest.
Summer At Grandpa’s
This movie highlights the difference between urban and rural areas. In this film, screenwriter-novelist Chu Tien-wen tells a story of how children from the city to upcountry for their holidays. He shows how they meet new friends and start to play together. In the movie, the writer highlights crucial moments for children from all settings and how they try to synchronize their different standards to achieve a common. Therefore, while watching the movie, it helps scholars to understand the...
Summer At Grandpa’s
This movie highlights the difference between urban and rural areas. In this film, screenwriter-novelist Chu Tien-wen tells a story of how children from the city to upcountry for their holidays. He shows how they meet new friends and start to play together. In the movie, the writer highlights crucial moments for children from all settings and how they try to synchronize their different standards to achieve a common. Therefore, while watching the movie, it helps scholars to understand the...
- 4/13/2019
- by AMP Training
- AsianMoviePulse
Amal Clooney made a stylish statement in a bold red dress in New York City on Friday. The human rights attorney donned a red cape dress as she made her way to the United Nations, pairing the dress with a desert Bancroft leather satchel from Michael Kors Collection and matching heels. Photographers spotted Clooney carrying a long coat on her arm as she walked outside. After arriving at the Un, Clooney delivered a speech during the Press Behind Bars: Undermining Justice and Democracy conference at the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. Clooney, who is on the legal team representing imprisoned Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, addressed Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during her...
- 9/28/2018
- E! Online
Carrey took part in the America: A Tribute to Heroes charity telethon for victims of 9/11, and donated $1 million to the cause.
In August 2007, Carrey made an internet video to try to bring attention to the political suppression in Burma, especially of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
Charities & foundations supported
Jim Carrey has supported the following charities:
Celebrity Fight Night FoundationComic ReliefElton John AIDS FoundationGeneration RescueLuke Neuhedel FoundationMuhammad Ali Parkinson CenterNational Veterans FoundationSt. Jude Children's Research HospitalThe Art of ElysiumToy Mountain Campaign Read more about Jim Carrey's charity work and events. Related articles Idol Gives Back On WednesdayCarrey And McCarthy Walk For Green VaccinesJenny McCarthy And Jim Carrey Host Autism FundraiserAmerican Idol Gives Back $67 MillionStars Come Out For HollyRod Foundation
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In August 2007, Carrey made an internet video to try to bring attention to the political suppression in Burma, especially of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
Charities & foundations supported
Jim Carrey has supported the following charities:
Celebrity Fight Night FoundationComic ReliefElton John AIDS FoundationGeneration RescueLuke Neuhedel FoundationMuhammad Ali Parkinson CenterNational Veterans FoundationSt. Jude Children's Research HospitalThe Art of ElysiumToy Mountain Campaign Read more about Jim Carrey's charity work and events. Related articles Idol Gives Back On WednesdayCarrey And McCarthy Walk For Green VaccinesJenny McCarthy And Jim Carrey Host Autism FundraiserAmerican Idol Gives Back $67 MillionStars Come Out For HollyRod Foundation
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Copyright © 2018 Look To The Stars. This article may not be reproduced without explicit written permission; if you are not reading...
- 2/13/2018
- Look to the Stars
Greg Barker’s respectful film, shot behind the scenes at the White House, documents the end of an era – and the shock of what happened next
There is an unintentional sadness to this film from Greg Barker. It’s a respectful documentary about Barack Obama’s final year in the Us presidency, and everyone in front of and behind the camera clearly assumes that the baton is about to be euphorically passed on to Hillary Clinton. This feels like a feature-length season finale to The West Wing.
The title reminded me a little of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy – yet that sense of an ending is very different. The mood here is not complacency exactly, but with hindsight we can see a kind of innocence, or even naivety, as everyone earnestly goes about their legacy-defining projects as the hour of Hillary’s coronation draws near.
There is an unintentional sadness to this film from Greg Barker. It’s a respectful documentary about Barack Obama’s final year in the Us presidency, and everyone in front of and behind the camera clearly assumes that the baton is about to be euphorically passed on to Hillary Clinton. This feels like a feature-length season finale to The West Wing.
The title reminded me a little of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy – yet that sense of an ending is very different. The mood here is not complacency exactly, but with hindsight we can see a kind of innocence, or even naivety, as everyone earnestly goes about their legacy-defining projects as the hour of Hillary’s coronation draws near.
- 1/17/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Elders today called on Myanmar’s government and military leaders to end all military operations in Rakhine State, and allow hundreds of thousands of displaced Rohingya in Bangladesh and other countries to return.
Following their board meeting in London, The Elders also expressed their deep concern and dismay at the wave of violence and destruction that has scarred Rakhine in recent months. Those who are responsible for these crimes must be held to account.
Gro Harlem Brundtland, Deputy Chair of The Elders, said:
“The violence and displacement, persecution and killings in Rakhine State must stop. The hundreds of thousands of people who have fled their homes must be allowed to return and live dignified lives, and their peace and security must be assured by state security forces. Sustainable peace in Rakhine – and Myanmar – can only be achieved when there are tangible improvements to the lives of the Rakhine and Muslim communities in the state.
Following their board meeting in London, The Elders also expressed their deep concern and dismay at the wave of violence and destruction that has scarred Rakhine in recent months. Those who are responsible for these crimes must be held to account.
Gro Harlem Brundtland, Deputy Chair of The Elders, said:
“The violence and displacement, persecution and killings in Rakhine State must stop. The hundreds of thousands of people who have fled their homes must be allowed to return and live dignified lives, and their peace and security must be assured by state security forces. Sustainable peace in Rakhine – and Myanmar – can only be achieved when there are tangible improvements to the lives of the Rakhine and Muslim communities in the state.
- 10/27/2017
- Look to the Stars
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have in the past received criticism for not taking on as many royal duties as the queen and the rest of their family, but 2017 has seen the most amount of change in the family business for many years. As everyone waited with bated breath for news of a Harry and Meghan Markle engagement, the announcement in May that Prince Philip was retiring from public life went by with little fuss; however, the impact it has had on the rest of the family is actually pretty major. First, it meant that the queen would be going out on public engagements now without her husband by her side, and therefore other members of the family have stepped up, including Prince Charles for the State Opening of Parliament and Prince William for a state lunch at Buckingham Palace with Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- 10/24/2017
- by Marcia Moody
- Popsugar.com
This intimate documentary on Ashin Wirathu, the Buddhist fanatic whose ideas have brought down Aung Sun Suu Kyi, is a bleak study of sectarianism by Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder’s overpoweringly bleak documentary about the Buddhist monk stirring up ethnic hate against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims is the third in what has now emerged as his “trilogy of evil” – a trio of disquieting documentaries of which the first two were General Idi Amin Dada in 1974 and Terror’s Advocate in 2007 about the genial, cigar-smoking Jacques Vergès, lawyer for Klaus Barbie.
The Venerable W delivers a nauseous, almost black-comic jab at any liberal who fondly believed that Buddhism and Buddhists somehow float ethereally free of the sectarianism and bigotry that infect any other religion. And it also emerges as a devastating indictment of someone who is not its subject and appears only briefly: Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader who is...
Barbet Schroeder’s overpoweringly bleak documentary about the Buddhist monk stirring up ethnic hate against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims is the third in what has now emerged as his “trilogy of evil” – a trio of disquieting documentaries of which the first two were General Idi Amin Dada in 1974 and Terror’s Advocate in 2007 about the genial, cigar-smoking Jacques Vergès, lawyer for Klaus Barbie.
The Venerable W delivers a nauseous, almost black-comic jab at any liberal who fondly believed that Buddhism and Buddhists somehow float ethereally free of the sectarianism and bigotry that infect any other religion. And it also emerges as a devastating indictment of someone who is not its subject and appears only briefly: Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader who is...
- 10/10/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Too Hollywood for art houses and too art house for Hollywood, iconoclastic French filmmaker Luc Besson has always had to blaze his own trail. Unwilling — or unable — to compromise from the very start (his debut feature was a dialogue-free post-apocalyptic drama about a waterless future where it occasionally rains fish), Besson continues to offset his pigheadedness with his passion. He eventually got so sick of looking for support that he launched his own production company, EuropaCorp, which has become one of the most profitable in all of Europe by churning out the kind of carnivalesque shlock that made its founder so famous in the first place. Besson may not have directed the likes of “Taken,” “Lock-Out,” and “Colombiana,” but his fingerprints are all over them.
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- 7/20/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
When the British royal staff was called to an emergency meeting concerning Prince Philip early on Thursday morning at Buckingham Palace, some feared the worst for the 95-year-old, but thankfully it was only to announce his decision to step down from public duties. The next day, Queen Elizabeth II hosted a private lunch without her husband but luckily had the support of her grandson Prince William. Together they greeted Burma's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi at Buckingham Palace, chatting and happily posing for photos together. William, who recently celebrated daughter Princess Charlotte's second birthday, has been taking on more royal duties over the last few months from Her Majesty, who is taking a step back. William and brother Prince Harry have gone on royal tours to places like Canada and some of the Caribbean islands in place of Queen Elizabeth II, and in 2013, William performed his first investiture.
- 5/6/2017
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Blame for the political situation in Abuddin is getting passed around like a hot potato.
With the unfortunate news that Tyrant Season 3 Episode 10 might be the de facto series finale after FX's cancelation, we may never find out if Barry is capable of taking responsibility for his actions.
Of course, he's not the only one who refuses to acknowledge that actions have consequences.
Sammy's predictable injury may have helped in serving his parent's with a wake up call about just how far they'd strayed from the path, but it's hard to say it those realizations could stick. While Barry and Molly have both recognized that their revenge mission has taken a toll, neither has really seemed to regret the cost.
For Molly, that's because she's caught up in her victim-hood. She is more than willing to burn the whole world down while she enacts her revenge.
The pain that...
With the unfortunate news that Tyrant Season 3 Episode 10 might be the de facto series finale after FX's cancelation, we may never find out if Barry is capable of taking responsibility for his actions.
Of course, he's not the only one who refuses to acknowledge that actions have consequences.
Sammy's predictable injury may have helped in serving his parent's with a wake up call about just how far they'd strayed from the path, but it's hard to say it those realizations could stick. While Barry and Molly have both recognized that their revenge mission has taken a toll, neither has really seemed to regret the cost.
For Molly, that's because she's caught up in her victim-hood. She is more than willing to burn the whole world down while she enacts her revenge.
The pain that...
- 9/8/2016
- by Elizabeth Harlow
- TVfanatic
If directing, acting, being married to Brad Pitt - and oh yeah, raising six kids - isn't enough, Angelina Jolie Pitt's schedule is getting even busier. The longtime Special Envoy for the Un Refugee Agency has been expanding her humanitarian work thanks to a partnership with two British foreign policy experts, Chloe Dalton and Arminka Helic, who she first collaborated with four years ago while working on the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, to end war zone rape. Since then, the trio have set up a partnership - called Jolie Pitt Dalton Helic - to work on issues ranging from women's rights to refugee issues,...
- 5/7/2016
- by Mary Green, MaryGreen1969
- PEOPLE.com
If directing, acting, being married to Brad Pitt - and oh yeah, raising six kids - isn't enough, Angelina Jolie Pitt's schedule is getting even busier. The longtime Special Envoy for the Un Refugee Agency has been expanding her humanitarian work thanks to a partnership with two British foreign policy experts, Chloe Dalton and Arminka Helic, who she first collaborated with four years ago while working on the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, to end war zone rape. Since then, the trio have set up a partnership - called Jolie Pitt Dalton Helic - to work on issues ranging from women's rights to refugee issues,...
- 5/7/2016
- by Mary Green, MaryGreen1969
- PEOPLE.com
Artist and musician named guest director for 50th edition.
The UK’s Brighton Festival has named artist and musician Laurie Anderson as guest director for its 50th edition, set to run May 7-29.
Known for her use of technology in music - from her 1981 hit O Superman to her appointment as Nasa’s first artist-in-residence - the Us artist most recently garnered acclaim for her first feature film in almost 30 years - Heart of a Dog - which reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother and her beloved dog.
Anderson, who previously attended Brighton Festival in 2011 and 2015, said: “I’m so happy to be serving as Guest Director of Brighton Festival in its historic 50th year. Our theme of home and place is especially relevant with so many people in the world on the move now looking, like all of us, for a place we can belong.
“I’ve been...
The UK’s Brighton Festival has named artist and musician Laurie Anderson as guest director for its 50th edition, set to run May 7-29.
Known for her use of technology in music - from her 1981 hit O Superman to her appointment as Nasa’s first artist-in-residence - the Us artist most recently garnered acclaim for her first feature film in almost 30 years - Heart of a Dog - which reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother and her beloved dog.
Anderson, who previously attended Brighton Festival in 2011 and 2015, said: “I’m so happy to be serving as Guest Director of Brighton Festival in its historic 50th year. Our theme of home and place is especially relevant with so many people in the world on the move now looking, like all of us, for a place we can belong.
“I’ve been...
- 1/7/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A new batch of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails released Friday presented a glimpse into the breadth of her personal network — a Rolodex of powerful celebrities, CEOs, political advisers and politicians that she's now tapping for her presidential campaign. A political celebrity long before she became secretary of state in 2009, Clinton and her team balanced requests from a long list of boldface names. Lady Gaga complimented her, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair praised her for doing the "Lord's Work," Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi asked for technology help and former President Jimmy Carter pitched
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- 11/1/2015
- by The Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, today named nurse Kaci Hickox and comedian John Oliver as its “Woman and Man of the Year” for their groundbreaking work in 2014 to challenge the status quo, inspire reasoned debate and create positive change.mtvU’s 2013 “Man and Woman of the Year” were Pope Francis and Lorde, while the network honored Frank Ocean and Malala Yousafzai in 2012. Previous recipients of the “People of the Year” honor include “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, as well as Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and hip hop […]...
- 12/9/2014
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream.
streaming now, while it’s still in cinemas
Lilting: heartbreakingly lovely film about the seemingly insurmountable distances between us when sharing grief is too painful [my review] [Curzon Home Cinema]
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Locke: we say things like, “Oh, I’d watch that guy read the phone book,” and this is almost that, except it really is absolutely riveting, and that’s no joke; a tour de force for Tom Hardy [my review] [iTunes UK]
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Locke: we say things like, “Oh, I’d watch that guy read the phone book,” and this is almost that, except it really is absolutely riveting, and that’s no joke; a tour de force for Tom Hardy [my review] [Amazon UK Instant Video]
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The Unknown Known: documentary interview with Bush-era insider Donald Rumsfeld is like a...
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Lilting: heartbreakingly lovely film about the seemingly insurmountable distances between us when sharing grief is too painful [my review] [Curzon Home Cinema]
streaming now, before it’s on dvd
Locke: we say things like, “Oh, I’d watch that guy read the phone book,” and this is almost that, except it really is absolutely riveting, and that’s no joke; a tour de force for Tom Hardy [my review] [iTunes UK]
streaming now, before it’s on dvd
Locke: we say things like, “Oh, I’d watch that guy read the phone book,” and this is almost that, except it really is absolutely riveting, and that’s no joke; a tour de force for Tom Hardy [my review] [Amazon UK Instant Video]
new to stream
The Unknown Known: documentary interview with Bush-era insider Donald Rumsfeld is like a...
- 8/11/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Luc Besson: "I am a bit like the great chefs who pick up tips and recipes from their travels. My greatest fear is to make the same film. I am not interested in that. I always want to go in different directions ..." Photo: Richard Mowe French filmmaker Luc Besson is the closest France has to a movie mogul with his company Europa Corp, which is a major partner in a recently opened studio in Paris, Cité du Cinéma. He has produced or co-produced some 100 movies across an eclectic range of genres, all aimed for international success and many - such as the Taken franchise - targeted at the mass market.
Now he has returned triumphantly to the director’s chair with Lucy featuring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, already a breakaway hit of the summer and very much in the Besson mould of films with strong female roles at their core (Nikita,...
Now he has returned triumphantly to the director’s chair with Lucy featuring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, already a breakaway hit of the summer and very much in the Besson mould of films with strong female roles at their core (Nikita,...
- 8/7/2014
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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