The News Review:
- Clint Eastwood’s Changeling leads Cannes Film Festival
- 10th Black Film Festival plays 10 days in June
- Harrison puts himself out of the running for festival top job
- Children’s theatre hits Adelaide for ASSITEJ festival
- Nigeria: Ajomanya Festival Has Come to Stay – Hon Dikko
- Jamestown’s swamp festival starts today
- 6-year-old Indio girl reports on Coachella festival for magazine
Clint Eastwood’s Changeling leads Cannes Film Festival
Providence Journal – Apr 25, 2008
Eastwood will show Changeling a mystery set in 1920s Los Angeles and starring Angelina Jolie as the mother of a kidnapped child. Soderbergh the director of the lighthearted series that began with cean’s Eleven gets serious with his four-hour-long marathon Che about Argentine revolutionary Ernesto Guevara organizers announced this week. The movies that will open and close the festival which runs May 14-25 will be released at a later date. Harrison Ford dons his khakis for the latest installment of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones series.
10th Black Film Festival plays 10 days in June
San Francisco Chronicle – Apr 25, 2008
tmpl –>It’s a milestone year for the San Francisco Black Film Festival. Starting as a one-day event this cultural celebration is about to mark its 10th year running June 4-8 and 11-15. The theme is “10 years 10 days 100 films. “Long before ‘going global’ became a catchphrase” festival director Ave Montague said in a statement “the San Francisco Black Film Festival served as a bridge between worlds underscoring the power of celluloid to translate political stories into universal themes. ” The opening-night movie is “Shoot the Messenger” made for the BBC by the Nigerian-born British filmmaker Ngozi nwurah.
Harrison puts himself out of the running for festival top job
NEWS.com.au – Apr 25, 2008
article-tools –> by Stephen Downie April 25 2008 12:00am NEW Year’s Eve maestro Wayne Harrison has ruled himself out of the running for the job of Sydney Festival director. Harrison the creative director of the past three New Year’s Eve celebrations yesterday said other work commitments would prevent him from taking the top job at the festival. "My contractual obligations wouldn’t allow me to be the next Sydney Festival director" he told The Daily Telegraph. It is understood Harrison who was also behind the 2006 Commonwealth Games’ closing ceremony in Melbourne had been on a short list of potential candidates for the festival director gig. He is currently overseas working on a circus-flavoured show which is set to premiere in New York later in the year.
Children’s theatre hits Adelaide for ASSITEJ festival
NEWS.com.au – Apr 25, 2008
ASSITEJ describes itself as the United Nations of theatre for young people. For 10 days next month the world’s most innovative shows for youngsters will descend on Adelaide – while the creative forces behind them congregate to discuss and shape the future of children’s theatre. The 16th ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival from May 9 to 18 will feature 28 shows from 14 countries. Works range from the spoken word to multimedia dance music puppetry and physical theatre all aimed at audiences aged from toddlers to late teens. ASSITEJ is a French acronym for Association International du Theatre pour l’Enfance et la Jeunesse or the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People.
Nigeria: Ajomanya Festival Has Come to Stay – Hon Dikko
AllAfrica.com – Apr 25, 2008
Musa Dikko has said the festival has come to say. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Dikko who is also the Sardauna Maitama disclosed this to LEADERSHIP during an exclusive interview maintaining that the festival had succeeded and had above all strengthened their political social and cultural commitments. The Gbagyi youth president who said the Ajomanya festival was held in commemoration of the cultural and traditional activities of the Gbagyis especially those in Bwari area council explained that now that the festival had been approved by most Gbagyi children it would stand the test of time. Unfortunately he continued during the previously held Abuja Carnivals the Gbagyis did not have a fair representation as there were no structures on ground to promote the culture and tradition of the Gbagyi people.
Jamestown’s swamp festival starts today
Charleston Post Courier – Apr 25, 2008
This year’s 37th annual event which begins today promises to be as much fun as ever. The weekend will begin with a series of pageants including the renowned Miss Hell Hole Swamp Festival which is held Sunday at 5 p. All pageants will be held at the steel shed in Jamestown.
6-year-old Indio girl reports on Coachella festival for magazine
Press-Enterprise – Apr 25, 2008
Eavan Gilhuly brought rock ‘n’ roll in the form of a wristband and a journal from last year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to her kindergarten class. "I love Coachella! The End" Eavan wrote on the final page of the journal. And what started out as a writing exercise to remember the fun she had has turned into the first assignment in a budding journalism career for the 6-year-old from Indio who is covering Coachella and next weekend’s Stagecoach Country Music Festival for Up! the in-flight magazine of Canadian airline Westjet. After Eavan and her mom Erin attended Coachella last year Erin wanted her daughter to have a keepsake of the special memories.