Archive for the ‘film’ Category

Film and television celebrities express support for striking writers

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

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A mass picket outside Universal Studios in Universal City, California Tuesday brought out scores of film and television personalities to support striking writers in the second week of their walk-out.

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Edinburgh Film Festival: Solitary fragments or part of social experience?

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

In Blind Mountain director Li Yang takes a frank and angry look at sex slavery in rural China. The practice of buying wives was abolished following the Chinese revolution in 1949. By the late 1980s it had revived to the extent that many tens of thousands of women are annually sold as wives.

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