L-R: Director Paul Koidis with Alice Cooper, Joe Perry & Johnny Depp. Bulgaria Film Festival, June 2023 BBAM! Gallery is proud to present the exclusive Montreal premiere of Essential Noise Volume 1 - a new and immersive film and music experience telling the story of the 1960s Toronto Yorkville music scene (the coffeehouse/folk era). The Montreal screening will be an exclusive director's cut with emphasis on Leonard Cohen's influence on the era.
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The Tashme Project: The Living Archives is an award-winning verbatim theatre piece that has been crafted from over 70 hours of interviews with 20 Nisei (second generation Japanese Canadians) from Vancouver, Toronto, Hamilton, Kingston, Ottawa and Montreal. Show creators /performers Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa are proud to be part of Centaur Theatre’s Brave New Looks from Nov. 15-24, kicking off the national tour of this important show about the WW2 internment of Japanese Canadians.
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Genoa -The Italian event 100 Thousand Poets for Change will take place in Genoa, on September 29, with a presentation by the publisher "Circolo Lavinia Dickinson" of the book "Bligal di pietra e luce" (Bligal of Stone and Light) by Roberto Malini and Daniela Malini, and some performances by the Poets for Human Rights.
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by Beena Sarwar
Boston, Massachusetts - Pakistan’s online community erupted in virtual cheers as Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy received an Academy Award (or Oscar) recently in Hollywood for co-directing the Best Documentary (Short Subject). A Tweet by Pakistani blogger Anthony Permal summed up the feelings of many of his compatriots: “A woman from Pakistan, who made a film about women, won an Oscar. In your face, world.”
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by Persheng Vaziri
New York, New York - If you could climb over the mountain of threats and political posturing that are part of the language used by the United States, Europe and Iran and look out, you might see the light of a movie screen.
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NEW YORK - The Museum of Modern Art presents Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, through June 28, 2010. The exhibition is the first major retrospective in the U.S. in more than 30 years of one of photography’s most original and influential masters.
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Beverly Hills, CA — The 1977 Best Picture nominee “Star Wars” will be screened as the first feature of the fourth installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series. The groundbreaking adventure epic will be shown Monday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
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