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Feature: Palestinian American comedian says "comedy is a form of protest"

Xinhua 17 Aug 2018

by Fatima Aruri. RAMALLAH, Aug ... Zahr has performed throughout the world ... "I wish I could come here someday and stay for six months or a year to sort of build maybe stand-up comedy club somewhere where people can just come it a try," said Zahr. Besides being a comedian, Zahr is also a filmmaker, a writer, a political commentator and an adjunct professor of law at a university in Detroit . ....

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Actor speaks up for estate life at film premiere

Islington Tribune 17 Aug 2018

Fifteen young people from the Elthorne estate knuckled down for a year to create the short film, which includes scenes shot outside their homes, near Pentonville Prison in Caledonian Road and Arsenal Football Club’s Emirates Stadium. The filmmakers hope it will offer a new narrative for people growing up on estates and show there are other ways to live than being “drawn out” to gangs and crime ... Joshua Blissett and Jordan Aloye. He said....

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Do Maghreb film producers have a language problem in the Arab Middle East?

Middle East Online 12 Aug 2018

Sabahi said Moroccan cinema has, since the early 1990s, seen significant improvement in quality and thematic orientation because of a new generation of filmmakers ... Chouikh said ... We as filmmakers try even to find a cinema club or a cultural body that would allow us to show our films.”. As for external distribution, Chouikh said it was a tough problem because filmmakers do not have enough experience in the field ... ....

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This is why John Abraham thinks Rs. 100 crore announcements are fake

The Times of India 10 Aug 2018

Filmmakers in the industry are mostly driven to make their movies enter the 100-crore club within the first week of its opening ... If that wasn’t all, the actor also feels that in such cases, the said filmmakers have achieved nothing except cheating the audience ... Yet filmmakers throw a success party when there’s actually no success ......

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Movie set in 1968 Twin Cities, ‘Purple Haze’ screenings feature local creators

Pioneer Press 29 Jul 2018

It makes sense that the movie “Purple Haze” is coming home to the Twin Cities. The film’s creators (and St. Paul natives), David Burton Morris and Victoria Wozniak, have done that a couple of different times during their filmmaking careers ... 1 and 3 ... Nope ... “It kind of became this little club,” she says, adding that it helped there weren’t a lot of indie filmmakers in the early 1980s ... Related Articles ... Aug....

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Writing has given me more control over my acting career: Kamal Haasan

Indian Express 29 Jul 2018

Down in Jungleland. Death of a TreeIn Search of Peace in Babur’s Garden. The Mughal emperor lies in KabulWhere butterflies get the blues ... Why do you keep going back to tales of espionage?. All filmmakers typically have two or three themes that keep recurring in their work ... You are 63 ... No ... The filmmaker and writer (in me) prolonged my career by at least 20 years. What made you turn your fan clubs into welfare organisations? ... Tags ... ....

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The Cinema of Roy Spence - keep watching the skies!

RTE 24 Jul 2018

Spence was immediately enamoured with the work of filmmakers such as Ed Wood and of course Roger Corman, all of whom became influential on his filmmaking ... In Attack of the Saucer People (1981) an amateur filmmaker tries desperately to rile his film club compadres into making a short film ... Even indie rock group the Two Door Cinema Club took their namesake as a malapropism of Noel’s Tudor cinema....

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L7 brings DIY ethic and attitude to Saint Andrew's Hall

Detroit news 19 Jul 2018

It's been a few years since powerfully, heavy rock band L7 reunited after at least a decade of silence. The four-piece, an influential group for both the riot grrrl and grunge/punk scenes of the 1990s, is now a few tours into their latest go around, which kicked off in 2015 ... They played a sold-out show at El Club in Detroit in the spring, which was part of a weekend-long celebration of filmmaker John Waters' birthday ... Twitter ... L7. 7 p.m....

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Ali Abbas Zafar’s Bharat preparations going on in full swing… literally! Watch video

Bollywood Life 18 Jul 2018

By Rajat Tripathi . Published. July 18, 2018 7.03 pm. comments ... Phir Se ... The filmmaker gave Bollywood its fifth Rs 300 crore club film with last year’s Tiger Zinda Hai. In fact, his movie Sultan, too, is a member of the club ... So, any update about the movie is exciting! The filmmaker took to his social media and shared a video for the prep work of the movie....

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What’s on TV this week?: 07.19.18 through 07.25.18

The Tribune Greeley 18 Jul 2018

Filmmakers Andy Casagrande and Jeff Kurr team up with Towner and conservationist Chris Fellows to find more answers ... After seeing the film, Adam (Sean Giambrone) becomes fanatical about Brooks and wants to start a club to honor the filmmaker and comedian, but Jackie (guest star Rowan Blanchard) doesn't take him seriously — resulting in problems....

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The Crazy Development History of ‘Mission: Impossible III’

Collider 17 Jul 2018

Impossible 3 sooner rather than later, and while Cruise went and tackled the back-to-back productions of Vanilla Sky and Minority Report, he was also searching for the right filmmaker to steer Mission ... The Fight Club filmmaker was just coming off the box office hit Panic Room and Cruise sparked to his strong visual talents as an exciting choice to helm Mission....

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Imagine, It Isn’t Hard to Do

Indian Express 13 Jul 2018

Earlier this year, Assamese filmmaker Himjyoti Talukdar’s Calendar opened in Assam to positive reviews. However, due to lack of finances, the indie filmmaker was unable to take the film to Assamese audiences in other cities ... So, if fans or a fan club of an actor, filmmaker or a particular film reach out, requesting for a specific screening, we arrange it for them....

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Skyscraper Is Too Short on Story to Stand Out

Rotten Tomatoes 13 Jul 2018

Long familiar to fans of socially aware and politically conscious hip-hop through his work with the Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club, rapper and producer Boots Riley has now made the leap into filmmaking with Sorry to Bother You, and to say he stuck the landing would be an understatement — this sci-fi-tinged dark comedy is rolling into its wide ......

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