Women in film
British-Turkish actress face of campaign on women’s depiction on TV
British-Turkish actress Susku Ekim Kaya has become the face of the Staunch Test's campaign that took place in London, the U.K.
The satirical campaign was designed by screenwriter Bridget Lawless, who is best known as the writer of the famous British TV Series "The Bill" and also the founder of the "The Staunch Book Prize," an award for thriller novels without violence toward women.
Let’s talk about the 'unseen'
The people whom French New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda focused on in her work wouldn't make the front page.
They were people who were defeated and weak - not exactly poor, but living on the margins of society. A rather peculiar margin. They are not helpless, they do not suffer from some form of disability, they are not angry with politics. They ignore it, just as it ignores them.
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Tom Hanks sings Christos Anesti
Greek actor Theocharis Ioannidis uploaded a video on his social media account showing Hollywood star Tom Hanks singing “Christos Anesti” (Christ is risen) in a party at Los Angeles.
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Angelina Jolie visits refugees in Athens (pics+vid)
Study finds women few, far between in Hollywood films
Less than a third of the characters in top-grossing Hollywood films are female, and women directors are much rarer still, according to a study that bemoaned Tinseltown's lack of diversity.
Romanian Lungu wins best director award at the Bucharest International Film Festival
Romanian Ana Lungu, the director of the "Autoportretul unei fete cuminti" (Self-Portrait of a Well-Behaved Girl), on Saturday was presented the best director award of the 11th edition of the Bucharest International Film Festival (BIFF) at a gala award hosted by the Studio Cinema of Bucharest in the presence of special guest Franco Nero of Italy.