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Alice Diop
Alice Diop (born 1979) is a French filmmaker. Her films include documentaries about contemporary French society and the feature drama film '' Saint Omer'' (2022). Early life and education Diop was born in 1979 in the northern Parisian commune of Aulnay-sous-Bois. Her mother and father, who emigrated from Senegal in the 1960s, worked as a cleaner and an industrial painter, respectively. The family had five children and lived until Diop was ten in the commune's housing project. After her early schooling, she studied African colonial history at the Sorbonne, visual sociology at the University of Évry, and documentary filmmaking at La Fémis (workshop). Career Diop's first films have been described as "earnest, slightly didactic portraits of marginalized populations". Fifteen years after leaving Aulnay-sous-Bois, she returned to film the cultural diversity of the area she grew up in for her first documentary, ''La Tour du monde'' (2005). In 2011, her documentary ''La Mort de Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aulnay-sous-Bois
Aulnay-sous-Bois () is a Communes of France, commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Île-de-France region in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre zero of France. The commune has been awarded four flowers by the ''National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom'' in the ''Competition of cities and villages in Bloom''. Geography Situation Aulnay-sous-Bois is located in the Paris area and is 19 km north-east of Notre-Dame Cathedral, 1 km east of Le Bourget Airport, and 5 km south-west of Charles de Gaulle Airport. The commune stretches over a length of 6.5 km from north to south and a width ranging from 1.4 to 4.3 km from east to west and covers an area of 1,620 hectares. The town is surrounded by the A3 autoroute in the west which joins the A1 autoroute in the north. Route nationale 2 passes through the heart of the commune from west to east with the N370 coming from the south-east along the eastern bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV5Monde
TV5Monde (), formerly known as TV5, is a French public television network, broadcasting several channels of French-language programming. It is an approved participant member of the European Broadcasting Union. The network is available across Europe on satellite via Astra 19.2°E and Eutelsat Hot Bird (13°E) (both free-to-air), online and via TVPlayer. Summary TV5 started on 2 January 1984 and was under the management of Serge Adda until his death in November 2004. The next director from 6 April 2005 was Jean-Jacques Aillagon, a former French Minister for Culture and Communication. The director-general is now Marie-Christine Saragosse. In January 2006, TV5 underwent a major overhaul, including rebranding as "TV5Monde" to stress its focus as a global network ("Monde" is French for "World"). Also, the changes included a new schedule and a new program line-up. Since 1993, "TV5 Monde" is part of the channel's corporate name. Its Canadian operations are branded "TV5 Québec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York Times''. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office in Manhattan. Ross remained the editor until his death in 1951, shaping the magazine's editorial tone and standards. ''The New Yorker''s fact-checking operation is widely recognized among journalists as one of its strengths. Although its reviews and events listings often focused on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' gained a reputation for publishing serious essays, long-form journalism, well-regarded fiction, and humor for a national and international audience, including work by writers such as Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and Alice Munro. In the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kayije Kagame
Kayije Kagame (born 1987) is a Rwandan–Swiss contemporary artist and actress. Life and career Kagame was born into a Rwandan family in Geneva in 1987. Her father, Faustin, is a prominent political journalist and advisor to President of Rwanda Paul Kagame (no relation); her mother is a teacher of history and French. One of her siblings is filmmaker Shyaka Kagame. Kayije became interested in acting at age 19 when she ran into director in Rome and he offered her a role in a play. She studied theater at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève for a year, then in 2010 enrolled in the (ENSATT) in Lyon. In 2014, she attended a summer training program in New York hosted by theater director Robert Wilson, who cast her that year in his revival of '' Les Nègres'' at the Odéon in Paris. In art, Kagame has made short films, sound installations, and other installations and performance pieces. In 2019, with other artists, Kagame staged ''So Long Lives This, and This Gives Life to Thee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amrita David
''Amrita'' (, IAST: ''amṛta''), ''Amrit'' or ''Amata'' in Pali, (also called ''Sudha'', ''Amiy'', ''Ami'') is a Sanskrit word that means "immortality". It is a central concept within Indian religions and is often referred to in ancient Indian texts as an elixir. Its first occurrence is in the Rigveda, where it is considered one of several synonyms for ''soma'', the drink of the devas. Amrita plays a significant role in the Samudra Manthana, and is the cause of the conflict between devas and asuras competing for amrita to obtain immortality. Amrita has varying significance in different Indian religions. The word ''Amrit'' is also a common first name for Sikhs and Hindus, while its feminine form is ''Amritā''. Amrita is cognate to and shares many similarities with ambrosia; both originated from a common Proto-Indo-European source."Ambrosia" in ''Chambers's Encyclopædia''. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 1, p. 315. Etymology Amrita is composed of the negative prefix, अ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabienne Kabou
Fabienne Kabou (born 14 June 1977) is a Senegalese–French woman who was convicted of the murder of her 15-month-old daughter, Adélaïde, on 19 November 2013. She had given birth in secret and raised the child alone in Paris. Apparently mentally ill, Kabou traveled to Berck with the intention of drowning the child and left her on a beach at night. The girl was found dead the next day. Kabou was quickly arrested. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison after a trial in June 2016. The trial inspired the feature film '' Saint Omer'' (2022), written and directed by Alice Diop. Events Fabienne Kabou was born into a wealthy Senegalese Catholic family in Dakar on 14 June 1977. Her father worked as a translator for the United Nations, her mother as a secretary. Kabou was a good student and reportedly scored 130 on IQ tests. In 1995, she moved to France to study architecture. After two years, she changed to philosophy, and was writing a thesis on Wittgen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi De Laurentiis
Luigi Agostino Alfredo De Laurentiis (16 February 1917, in Torre Annunziata – 30 March 1992, in Rome) was an Italian film producer. His credits include '' Un borghese piccolo piccolo'' (director Mario Monicelli, 1977), '' Amici miei – Atto II'' (director Mario Monicelli, 1982), '' Vacanze di Natale'' (director Carlo Vanzina, 1983) and '' Donne con le gonne'' (director Francesco Nuti, 1991). Life After graduating in law, he became involved in the film industry through the prodding of his younger brother Dino and assisted Dino in the production of '' The Bandit''. He was film editor on '' Le notti di Cabiria'' by Federico Fellini (1957) and after a short spell with fellow Italians Eduardo De Filippo and Totò Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò (), or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed ''il principe della risat ..., he then worked besi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)
The Grand Jury Prize is an award given at the Venice Film Festival to one of the feature films in competition slate since 1951. It is considered the second place award next to the main award, the Golden Lion. Since 2016, the official name of the award has been simply the ''Grand Jury Prize'', but it has had several other names since its creation in 1951: ''Special Jury Prize'' (awarded from 1951 to 1982; and from 2006 to 2012); and ''Grand Special Jury Prize'' (awarded from 1983 to 2005; and from 2013 to 2015). was the first winner for in 12th Venice International Film Festival, 1951, while Maura Delpero is the most recent winner for ''Vermiglio (film), Vermiglio'' in 81st Venice International Film Festival, 2024. Winners 1950s 1960s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ; Notes : * Special Award given for the ensemble acting of the film. Multiple winners The following individuals received two or more Grand Jury Prize awards: See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
79th Venice International Film Festival
The 79th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 31 August to 10 September 2022, at Venice Lido in Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b .... American actress Julianne Moore was the Jury President of the main competition. Spanish actress Rocío Muñoz Morales hosted the opening and closing nights of the festival.The Golden Lion was awarded to '' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed'' by Laura Poitras making it the second documentary, following Gianfranco Rosi's '' Sacro GRA'' in 2013, to win the festival's top prize. American filmmaker Paul Schrader and French actress Catherine Deneuve were awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The festival opened with '' White Noise'' by Noah Baumbach, and closed with '' The Hanging Sun'' by F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feature Film
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a film (Film, motion picture, "movie" or simply “picture”) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment theatrical program. The term ''feature film'' originally referred to the main, full-length film in a cinema program that included a short film and often a newsreel. Matinee programs, especially in the United States and Canada, in general, also included cartoons, at least one weekly serial film, serial and, typically, a second feature-length film on weekends. The first narrative feature film was the 70-minute ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'' (1906). Other early feature films include ''Les Misérables (1909 film), Les Misérables'' (1909), ''L'Inferno'', ''Defence of Sevastopol, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1911 film), The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1911), ''Oliver Twist (1912 American film), Oliver Twist'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
