The News Review:
- Festivals to Lead Carnegie’s Season
- Berlin film festival: films from as far as Iran Japan to compete
- Film Festival turns to file-sharing service to find more viewers
- Pottery-making during Spring Festival
- Stars to attend Dublin Film Festival
- Parvaneh Masumi to receive lifetime achievement award at Fajr festival…
- Ethiopian Sigd festival on path to becoming nat’l holiday
Festivals to Lead Carnegie’s Season
New York Times – Jan 30, 2008
WAKINPublished: January 30 2008 Phrases from spirituals floated softly from the podium. “Plenty good room good room in my Father’s kingdom”.
Berlin film festival: films from as far as Iran Japan to compete
Hindu – Jan 30, 2008
Twenty-one films are competing for the main Golden Bear award at the “Berlinale” the first of the year’s major European movie festivals _ which runs from Feb. Contenders announced Tuesday by the festival organizers include Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s “Elegy” based on Philip Roth’s novel “The Dying Animal” and starring Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley; “There Will Be Blood” Paul Thomas Anderson’s oil-boom epic starring Daniel Day-Lewis; and Damian Harris’ “Gardens f The Night” featuring John Malkovich. rganizers say they do not expect the Berlin festival to be hit by the Hollywood writers’ strike which reduced the annual Golden Globes ceremony to a news conference.
Film Festival turns to file-sharing service to find more viewers
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 30, 2008
- Sorry comments are closed for this story. Film Festival turns to file-sharing service to find more viewersfinancial(01-30) 15:12 PST San Jose Calif. (AP) — rganizers of the Cinequest Film Festival have turned to file-sharing in an effort to attract a broader array of participants. But the software they chose also enables illegal.
Pottery-making during Spring Festival
央è§åé – Jan 30, 2008
Have a cup of tea and experience the culture of potteries. In this peaceful garden visitors can watch the production of potteries by highly skilled masters or try to make simple potteries themselves.
Stars to attend Dublin Film Festival
RTE.ie – Jan 30, 2008
Day-Lewis who is up for the Best Actor scar will attend a gala screening of his latest movie ‘There Will Be Blood’. Advertisement ther stars set to attend the festival include Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
Parvaneh Masumi to receive lifetime achievement award at Fajr festival…
Tehran Times – Jan 30, 2008
She will receive the Golden Simorgh for her 35 year of acting during the opening ceremony on January 31. Masumi told ISNA that she is happy her talent is being recognized. She went on to say that she was selected as the best actress twice at earlier Fajr festival and since there was no Simorgh at that time she would like to get one now. Masumi received best actress awards at the third Fajr festival for role in ?Davudi Flowers? and at the sixth festival for her roles in the films ?Glory of Life? and ?Trousseau for Robab?.
Ethiopian Sigd festival on path to becoming nat’l holiday
Jerusalem Post – Jan 30, 2008
Additionally employees will be entitled to choose whether to observe the day by not working similar to certain other national holidays such as Jerusalem Day. Taking place 50 days after Yom Kippur on the 29th of Heshvan Sigd is traditionally marked by members of the Ethiopian community in a religious ceremony on Jerusalem’s Haas Promenade. Kessim lead the people in a series of prayers in the Ethiopian Jewish language of Gez calling for a Jewish return to Jerusalem and individuals are urged to repent for any wrongdoings in the past year.