ACTRESS AUDREY TAUTOU TO ATTEND KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2013

                                           ACTRESS AUDREY TAUTOU

The 48^th Edition, which runs from 28^th June - 6^th July 2013, will also welcome four other internationally-acclaimed talent

18^th June, London, UK: The Karlovy International Film Festival (KVIFF) today announced that French actress Audrey Tautou will join Michel Gondry to present his latest film, MOOD INDIGO, which opens the Festival and in which she stars. Alongside Tautou, the Festival also welcomes American filmmaker Cary Fukunaga (SIN NOMBRE, JANE EYRE), Cannes Jury Prize winning Director Paolo Sorrentino (IL DIVO, This Must Be the Place), acclaimed British actor Julian Sands and the distinguished Italian actress Valeria Golino (RAINMAN, A TALE OF LOVE).

Jiří Bartoška, KVIFF President said: "We are delighted to welcome a number of supremely talented filmmakers and actors to this year‘s edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.  From Audrey Tautou to Cary Fukunga, we have scoured the globe to bring the brightest talents who perfectly represent the eclectic nature of the sensational films that our audiences have to look forward to."

Tautou rose to prominence in previous KVIFF winner AmÉlie FROM MONTMARTRE, before starring in the critical success Dirty Pretty Things and international blockbuster The Da Vinci code. The adaptation of Boris Vian’s cult novel, MOOD INDIGO, marks the long-awaited return to KVIFF for the much-loved actress.

Naples-born filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino will personally introduce his latest film THE GREAT BEAUTY (LA GRANDE BELLEZZA) in the Horizons section of the Festival. The award-winning director has garnered much acclaim since his debut feature ONE MAN UP (L’UOMO IN PIU), which screened at KVIFF

in 2002. He is now a regular in competition at the world’s leading festivals and his 2008 film IL DIVO was awarded the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Fellow Italian Valeria Golino will also be in attendance to introduce her film, MIELE, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to great acclaim earlier this year. Primarily known for her acting – she won a host of major awards for her performance in A TALE OF LOVE (Storia d’amore), before starring alongside Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman in RAINMAN – this is Golino’s debut feature as Director. One of the most promising young filmmakers today, Cary Joji Fukunaga, will make his third appearance at the Festival. The award-winning director of Sin Nombre and Jane Eyre will present his latest project, SLEEPWALKING IN THE RIFT. The product of a collaboration with fashion label Maiyet, the American has reworked the improvisational piece into a visceral audio-visual installation – to be shown at Tržní Kolonáda between the 4^th and 6^th of July.

Much admired actor Julian Sands (the Loss of Sexual Innocence) returns to the Festival once again to present his multi-award-winning theatrical performance, A CELEBRATION OF HAROLD PINTER. Directed by John Malkovich and featuring a sensitive mix of anecdotes and quotes from genuine correspondance between Sands and the late, great dramatist, the one man show has garnered unanimous praise since its 2011 premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

NEW OXFAM TACKLES GLOBAL POVERTY

       

 

New Oxfam plan to tackle global poverty based on “people power”

“Our approach is to link our work from the local to global levels in order to reinforce the empowerment of people to make the case for broad policy change.”

Winnie Byanyima

Executive Director of Oxfam International

Under the title “The Power of People against Poverty”, Oxfam has adopted a new strategic plan that shifts the focus of its work onto the empowerment of people to shape their own future free from poverty.

The plan, released today by the Executive Director of Oxfam International, Winnie Byanyima, sets priorities and guides Oxfam’s work across more than 94 countries, delivered by its 17 affiliates who will together be spending around €1 billion a year in the period 2013-2019. The plan is based on supporting people to exercise their own rights, and especially the leadership of women, in order to enhance justice and wellbeing.

Oxfam believes its plan can build upon the fantastic global achievements made over the past 20 years in health, life expectancy and income, and help to enhance people’s abilities to respond to new threats and shocks.

“Voices for choices”

The plan sets out six inter-related goals that begin with reinforcing people’s right to be heard – or “voices for choices” – and women’s rights. These underpin the other four goals: saving lives in humanitarian disasters and preparing for crisis; sustainable food for all; fair sharing of natural resources; and ensuring sufficient financing for basic human needs.

The analysis behind the plan is explained in a blog by Winnie Byanyima. She says that Oxfam is changing because the world is changing. Great strides made in human development are under threat from climate change, worsening inequality, continued oppression of girls and women, and new conflicts. She said that the worst outcomes of these “need not be inevitable.”

 

“Rubik’s Cube” of global poverty

She says that a fresh vision of human development is needed in order to realize the world’s undoubted potential to beat global poverty and hunger for good. Oxfam will gear all its work to help shift power into poor people’s hands.

“The recent food crisis in West Africa has demonstrated how extreme poverty increases people’s vulnerability to unpredictable climatic conditions” said Souleymane Zeba, West Africa regional director of Oxfam America. “Our programs aim at empowering people to confront adversities, be they natural or otherwise.        
   
         

Oxfam has released the plan along with a short video – produced by London-based production company blueprintTV – featuring an Oxfam “Rubik’s Cube”. The cube implies that global poverty and hunger involve complex causes, but that a solution is possible.

2SIDE MODEL LOOK AFRICA 2013

The 2nd edition our annual modeling competition tagged “2Side Model.Look Africa 2013” is coming up again in a grand style.

The search is designed to redefine the modeling industry as a platform to project talents and create career paths for our teeming aspiring

young models as well as promoting modeling and tourism.

The search will also serve as a unifying factor for Nigeria and will

attract designers from different part of the country.

Our vision is to position the contest as a prime fashion run-way

contest that will be developed into a national heritage we can show to

the rest of the world.

The event is slated to hold within the third quarter of the year 2013

in Lagos State, the venue and date will be announce very soon.

For exclusive and further information regarding our event please log on to

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Juliet Geoffrey Project Director  +2348163050278

ONLY WISE LADIES READ THIS

Lord, I pray for a man, that will be a part of my life A man that really loves You more than everything A man that will take me in the second place of his heart A man that lives not for himself but for U Face and physical attraction isn't important The most important is I want a heart that really loves and thirsty of U and have a desire to be like Jesus 

And he must know for whom and for what he lives So his life isnt useless Someone that have a wise heart Not only a smart brain A man that not only loves me but also respect me A man that not only can adore me But can warn me when I'm wrong A man that loves me not from my beauty but from my heart A man that can be my best friend in every time and situation A man that make me feel like a woman when I beside him

I'm not ask a perfect man But I ask for imperfect man So I can make him perfect in Your eyes. A man that need my support for his strength A man that need my prayer for his life A man that need my smile to cover his sadness A man that need my love so he could feel beloved A man that need me to make his life perfect

And I also ask Make me to be a woman that can made him proud Give me a heart that really love You So I could love him with Your love Not love him with my love Give me Your gentle spirit So my beauty not come from my outside but come from You Give me Your Hands That I always able to pray for him Give me Your eyes So I could see many good things in him and not the bad one Give me Your mouth That fulfill with Your words of wisdom and encourage So I could support him every day Give me Your lips And I will smile at him every morning

And I want that when finally we meet Both of us can say How great Thou Art that You give me someone that can make my life perfect I know that You want we meet at the right time And You will make everything beautiful in Your time Amen

SAMSUNG LAUNCHES GALAXY S4 MINI AT LONDON EVENT

Thursday 20 June 2013

South Korean phone maker Samsung Electronics releases its Galaxy S4 mini at a press event in London, called 'Samsung Premiere 2013 Galaxy & Ativ'.

According to sources, the new device features a 4.3 inch qHD display with a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels.

Samsung is also expected to release several Android-run Galaxy devices as well as Windows devices which fall under Samsung's ATIV brand for personal computers and mobile computing which run the Windows operating system.

BERLINALE RESIDENCY LAUNCHES SECOND ROUND

The international Berlinale Residency fellowship programme is inviting six filmmakers with their latest film projects to Berlin from August 15 to November 15, 2013, so they can finalise their screenplays, and develop production and distribution strategies. An international jury – consisting of Clare Binns, (Director of Programming and Acquisitions at City Screen , Great Britain ), producer Cedomir Kolar (Asap Film , France ) and Thomas Hailer (Berlinale Programme Manager, Germany ) – has chosen six directors and their projects.

Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick comments: “With the Berlinale Residency, the Berlinale has successfully expanded its programme to promote filmmakers. I’m delighted that in the initiative’s second year we’ll again be supporting international directing talents in developing their new projects.”

Berlinale Residency participants 2013:

Emir Baigazin , Kazakhstan : The Wounded Angel

Producer: Beibit Muslimov, Kazakhfilm Studios, Kazakhstan

Born in Kazakhstan in 1984, Emir Baigazin studied film and television directing at the Kazakh National Academy of Arts. In 2007 he participated in the Asian Film Academy in Busan. He is also an alumnus of the 2008 Berlinale Talent Campus. Baigazin’s debut feature film, Harmony Lessons, was supported by the World Cinema Fund and celebrated its premiere in the Berlinale Competition 2013, where it won a Silver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution. The film was considered an extraordinary discovery and is now travelling the international festival circuit.

Bence Fliegauf, Hungary: Glowing Wormhole

Producer: Bence Fliegauf, Fraktál Film , Hungary

Hungarian filmmaker Bence Fliegauf’s debut feature film Forest premiered in the Berlinale Forum in 2003. One year later, Dealer (2004) garnered him over 20 awards, including the FIPRESCI Prize at the Mar del Plata Film Festival. He won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival for Milky Way in 2007. His first English-language movie, Womb, was screened in Locarno and Toronto . The Berlinale Competition 2012 presented Fliegauf’s latest film, Just the Wind, which received the Jury Grand Prix and went on to be screened at many other film festivals.

Alistair Banks Griffin , USA : Therese (working title)

Producer: Eric Overmyer, USA

Alistair Banks Griffin was born in 1978 in England and raised in New Orleans . He received his BA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Griffin ’s short film Gauge (2008) premiered at the New York Film Festival. In 2009 he was the recipient of a Cinereach grant for his first feature film, Two Gates of Sleep, which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and then won the New Talent Grand PIX Award at CPH:PIX in Copenhagen in 2011. The film has screened at numerous international festivals and museums.

Sebastián Lelio, Chile: Greeting to the Sun

Producer: Juan de Dios Larraín, Fábula , Chile

Born in Chile in 1974, Sebastián Lelio graduated from the Escuela de Cine de Chile . In 2006, he completed his first film, La Sagrada Familia, which received many awards and international recognition. His second film, Navidad, made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. El Año del Tigre, his third feature film, was released in the international competition of the Locarno Film Festival in 2011. His latest film, Gloria, premiered in theCompetition of the Berlinale in 2013, where it was highly acclaimed by the critics and the audience, and took home a Silver Bear for Best Actress.

Elina Psykou, Greece: Ivo & Sofia

Producer: Giorgos Karnavas, Heretic , Greece

Born in 1977 in Greece , Elina Psykou studied film directing at the Lykourgos Stavrakos Film School and sociology at Panteion University , both in Athens . She went on to study cultural history at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris . In 2007 she participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus. She has written and directed two short films, Sunday Trip (2004) and Summer Holidays (2006). Psykou’s first fictional feature film, The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas, won the Best Work in Progress award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; the film had its world premiere in the Berlinale Forum in 2013.

José Luis Valle, Mexico : Operation Baby

Producer: José Luis Valle, Caverna Cine , Mexico

Born in El Salvador , José Luis Valle became a citizen of Mexico , where he studied literature and film. His short film Chimera won the Kodak Film School Competition and received an Honorary Mention at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in 2006. His documentary The Pope’s Miraclescreened at the Locarno Film Festival in 2009. Valle’s first fictional feature, Workers, received support from the World Cinema Fund, premiered in the Berlinale Panorama in 2013, and won the Mezcal Prize for the best Mexican entry at the 28th Guadalajara International Film Festival.

Kirsten Niehuus, Managing Director of Film Funding at the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, states: “Alongside our other artist-in-residence initiatives, the Berlinale Residency represents the successful continuation of our Berlin 24/7 programme. Together with the Berlinale and the Nipkow Programme, we wish the six filmmakers a creative and inspiring time in the metropolitan area of the capital.”

The Berlinale Residency directors will stay in Berlin from August 15 to November 15, 2013. With script consultants from the Nipkow Programme and other experts from the industry, they will finalise their screenplays. In a workshop towards the end of the Residency, their producers will also receive concrete feedback from experienced industry professionals and assistance in preparing the projects for the international market. In February 2014, the filmmakers will return to Berlin so they can present their projects with their producers to potential co-producers and financers at the Berlinale Co-Production Market. A number of the participants will also be given the opportunity to present their works at the Ibero-American Co-Production Meeting in Guadalajara in March 2014.

The Berlinale Residency is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, the Nipkow Programme and the Guadalajara International Film Festival, in cooperation with the MEDIA Mundus programme of the European Union and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg supports the Berlinale Residency within the scope of its Berlin 24/7 programme, which offers work fellowships in the German capital to international filmmakers.

Berlinale Press Office

June 12, 2013

GAMBIAN/SIERRA LEONEAN STAR ACTRESS FATIMA JABBE

                                      Fatima Jabbe  on the red carpet

Gambian/Sierra Leonean star actress Fatima Jabbe at the Onochie Premiere in London.Tima as she is known amongst her colleagues came to the premiere looking hot and sexy to celebrate her nomination as African Favourite Actress at the African Oscar in the USA and to promote two of her films coming out this year. 

She said 2013 is looking good for her as she looks forward to the release of Shameful Deceit a Theodora Ibekwe Film on the 5th July,2013 and the release of her own film Battered on the 28th Sept,2013 at the Odeon Cinema in Greenwich, London.

Theodora and Fatima

Fatima told the waiting press that  she has been nominated amongst African elite actresses like Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Nadia Buhari, Mercy Johnson and many more . It is an honour and  i am grateful for all the support i am getting from everyone.

She said her sense of dress reflects her mood for the day and she enjoys living a peaceful and happy life.

Watch out for Shameful Deceit and Battered coming soon

                                     Fatima during a press interview