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Support groups for parents of LGBTQ+ children have existed in Russia since at least the early 2010s — though it’s more accurate to call them mothers’ groups: in over 13 years of existence, no fathers have joined. Over the past decade, LGBTQ+ rights in Russia have been increasingly under attack, with more and more anti-LGBTQ+ legislation passed. On November 30, 2023, the Russian Supreme Court classified anything to do with the so-called “international LGBT movement” as “extremism,” effectively putting parents under threat of criminal prosecution for caring for their LGBTQ+ children. Two mothers who’ve been part of the LGBTQ+ parent community in Russia for the past decade agreed to speak with Verstka about how they’ve tried to protect their children and fight for their rights in the face of increasing hatred. Meduza shares a retelling in English.

The names of the people in this story who are still in Russia have been changed for safety reasons.

Svetlana

Sixty-two-year-old Svetlana from St. Petersburg raised her son, Yevgeny, as a single parent. Yevgeny, who passed away a few years ago, came out to his mom as gay in the summer of 2009 when he was 22 years old. Svetlana took the news calmly, though she still thought her son should get married and have children. Yevgeny brought home pamphlets from psychologists with answers to common questions that parents of LGBTQ+ children might have. Svetlana read them. “My main conclusion was that a person is born gay. That was enough for me, that it’s not an illness,” she says.

Six months after Yevgeny came out, he and his mom went on vacation together with a gay couple. Svetlana says it already felt completely normal to see two men together. “In that moment, I thought to myself, it would be good if Yevgeny had someone too,” she recalls. That’s usually how it is, she adds: “A parent accepts their child after six months.” Only a few accept their child’s sexuality right away.

On Svetlana’s living room wall, there’s a photo collage of her son and his friends in rainbow colors. Among them are many well-known St. Petersburg LGBTQ+ activists of the 2010s. Yevgeny didn’t hide the fact that he was gay and spent most of his life advocating for LGBTQ+ rights.

Svetlana’s acceptance of her son’s sexuality soon evolved into activism of her own. At an LGBTQ+ festival in St. Petersburg, she saw a screening of Prayers for Bobby, a film which tells the story of a religious mother and her gay son, Bobby, who ultimately takes his life when his mother and the Church refuse to accept him. After his death, Bobby’s mother questions her beliefs and becomes an activist for the U.S. organization Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Following the screening, there was a discussion with parents of LGBTQ+ children. Svetlana and another mom participated. When asked if they wanted a community like PFLAG in Russia, they said yes.

The first meeting took place in St. Petersburg in January 2011. Svetlana says about seven mothers came — fathers never attended. At the time, they didn’t plan anything political; they just gathered to support each other. In late March 2011, at a press conference, Svetlana, Yevgeny, and Russian LGBT Network founder Igor Kochetkov said that if someone tried to restrict LGBTQ+ people’s rights, they’d appeal to the authorities. Soon, though, conservative United Russia politician and anti-LGBTQ+ rights crusader Vitaly Milonov, then a member of St. Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly, proposed a regional ban on “LGBT propaganda” among minors.

At first, activists still had hope they could stop the bill. LGBTQ+ youth and their moms came and held signs outside the Legislative Assembly. But on March 7, 2012, the law passed. Gradually, more and more mothers began to join the protests. “Anya, the mom of an LGBTQ+ kid from St. Petersburg, used to break dishes, but then she became an activist. There was also a mom of a transgender child; it took her a while, but then she came out holding a sign,” Svetlana recalls.

In 2012, mothers started marching at pride events. While now it seems almost unimaginable, a pride event in 2013 was actually authorized by the authorities. This didn’t protect the activists, though. One person had their face severely beaten, and everyone there was arrested. Svetlana says that even elderly mothers were shoved “very roughly” into a police van. At annual May Day pride marches, police always arrested participants and crowds shouted homophobic phrases. “In 2013, they threw rocks, feces, and rotten eggs at us and shouted all sorts of things. I won’t even quote what they were saying. You feel what hatred your son or daughter faces, and it’s very painful.”

At the beginning of his activism, Yevgeny took an aggressive stance against homophobic legislative initiatives, but after some time, he started to retreat inward and close himself off. “[When Yevgeny passed], he took with him an era where there was hope,” says Svetlana. She believes if he were still alive today, he would find the new repressions unbearable. “So many years of struggle, and all for nothing.”

Tamara

Tamara joined the St. Petersburg parent support group in 2020 when meetings were moved online because of COVID-19 restrictions. She lives in Moscow, but, as far as she knows, there weren’t any similar groups there. Tamara is 74, born during Stalin’s era. “This isn’t my first president,” she says. In the past, everyone in her social circle knew about LGBTQ+ people, but almost no one talked about them — and if they did, it was only when discussing celebrities. In 2016, Tamara learned that her youngest son, Fyodor, is gay. At the time, he was 30 years old. His father found out later.

Fyodor’s partner, Alexey, is four years older than him but looks younger, says Tamara. Despite their differences (Fyodor is a physicist and Alexey is a hairdresser), they share a lot of common interests, including a love of opera. “But most importantly, they know how to compromise with each other,” Tamara adds.

Alexey moved to Moscow with his mother as a teenager after he was attacked for being gay. “Well, that’s who he was, you could tell. There was an attempt on the child’s life. His mom left everything behind and they came to Moscow. Basically, to nowhere. Where could she turn? Who would help?” Tamara says.

Tamara had suspected that her son was gay but was afraid to ask, and he was afraid to tell her. Fyodor struggled with his identity for a long time and tried dating girls. After her son came out, Tamara says she “went through the whole journey parents go through.” “Honestly, at first, my world just collapsed. I didn’t know what to do,” she recalls. More than anything, she worried about how others might treat him. Fyodor did science outreach work with young people; he’d even received awards for it from the mayor. “I was afraid he would be completely banned if anyone, God forbid, found out.” Tamara also says that Vladimir, Fyodor’s father, often made homophobic comments: “Once, he was sitting, watching TV, and he said, ‘It’s all those LGBT people’s fault!’”

Then, Fyodor told his mom he wanted to introduce his boyfriend to the family. “Okay, don’t worry, everything will be fine,” she answered. But internally, she panicked, thinking of how her husband might react. It only got worse when she searched for information about LGBTQ+ people on the Internet and found hate groups. Eventually, she told her husband — and her fears proved unfounded. “Why are you worried?” he said. “You’ve always been tolerant. It is what it is.” Afterward, he wanted to meet his son’s boyfriend. Tamara says the meeting “went well.” Fyodor’s older brother also took the news well. He’s over 50, with his own family — on holidays they all get together with Alexey and Fyodor.

When people inquire if Fyodor has a wife or girlfriend, Tamara doesn’t know how to answer. Once, an acquaintance asked, “Does Fyodor have someone?” and she replied with relief, “Yes, he does.” “How long can one go on like this?” Tamara questions. “It’s very hard to always pretend.” She shared the news about her son and his partner with the people close to her, and everyone took it well. Now, she wonders why these conversations are taboo: “Parents are also in the closet, right? I ask other people about their kids. They all grew up right before our eyes. Why can’t I talk about mine? In our society, kids come out of the closet, but parents go in.”

On online support groups for parents of LGBTQ+ children, Tamara heard other parents’ stories and “saw moms leading completely normal lives.” Some mothers came in tears, saying: “We don't understand what this is. We’ve never heard of it before.” This was especially true for moms of transgender children. “It's hard to imagine what life is like for them now [after the crackdown on LGBTQ+ people],” says Tamara.

Children themselves also came to the groups, worried about how to tell their families. “Some do come out, but their parents don’t accept them. How can we help? How long can you live in secret? It's impossible,” Tamara says. “I know what my child went through. We had a conversation, and he told me: ‘If only you knew how much I needed support.’”

‘How can I make sure my child survives this?’

It’s estimated that LGBTQ+ people make up between 5 to 10 percent of any given society. This means that in Russia, there are at least 7 to 15 million LGBTQ+ individuals and up to 14 to 30 million parents of LGBTQ+ people.

According to kris pokrytan, a psychologist with the Plus Golos project (which mainly supports Russian-speaking families), parents of LGBTQ+ children often go through an acceptance process that isn’t linear or logical. Sometimes, there’s a “mourning period” before they come to terms with their child’s identity. But pokrytan stresses that there’s no one way to process things and not all parents grieve: “For a number of parents, [their child’s] coming out isn’t associated with a feeling of loss. Instead, there can be increased anxiety — where the parent is ready to accept [their child’s identity] but realizes there might be problems at school.”

Psychologists try to support the whole family: a child might feel relief after coming out, whereas a parent might sink into worry about how difficult life may now be — a fear only exacerbated by Russia’s latest anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. What’s dangerous is when parents show their child rejection as they navigate their own feelings. “It’s very difficult when a parent becomes unhappy with who you are,” says pokrytan. It’s possible to help work through stereotypes parents might have, but if they believe they can change who their child is, there’s very little psychologists can do.

Fathers in Russia are far less likely to accept their LGBTQ+ children than mothers, according to pokrytan. When a child comes out, their mom or dad also gets a new identity: the parent of an LGBTQ+ child. Everyone copes with this differently, but Russian fathers often don’t cope at all. The exceptions are few and far between.

After the Russian Supreme Court declared the so-called “international LGBT movement” an extremist organization, fewer people started reaching out to pokrytan. When they do, their questions are filled with a new urgency and fear: “How can I make sure my child survives this? How do we stay out of trouble with the authorities and take care of our mental health?”

‘May your love be infinite’

Fyodor and Alexey come home carrying a New Year’s tree, interrupting the interview. “What if we hadn’t welcomed them?” Tamara reflects. How would our traditions have continued? I think our son would be with us, certainly, but his beloved person, whom he’s been with for many years, wouldn’t be here. That’s a pretty strange thought.”

Tamara’s family puts on a play every New Year’s. “Alexey was very shy the first time, but now he’s gotten the hang of it,” Tamara says. “He called yesterday and said he’d invited his cousin and cousin’s girlfriend to the gathering, and also his friend and her two children. Of course, my older son and his wife and kid will be there too, as well as my husband’s sister. I’ve already assigned the roles.”

The family also organizes pride celebrations at home. At one, they held a symbolic wedding ceremony for Fyodor and Alexey. “Back then, I didn’t realize how serious it was for them. Alexey even cried, and they still wear the rings.” The speech Tamara gave at the ceremony ends with the following words:

Fate has awarded you its greatest gift — the kind of love that all seek, but only the chosen find. Its tremendous strength gives meaning to life and helps overcome difficulties and conquer any mountains. May your love be infinite. And as for whom and how to love, that’s a personal matter.

After the Supreme Court’s ruling, Alexey’s mom thought her son and Fyodor should leave the country. However, they’ve decided to stay for now. Reflecting on the court’s decision, Tamara says it’s “convenient for propaganda to use LGBTQ+ people as a tool to distract society from real problems.”

Both Svetlana and Tamara say they’re afraid for LGBTQ+ people, not for themselves. Since the new law came into effect, Svetlana says, everyone’s become occupied with figuring out how to survive, whether or not they should leave, and the feeling of community has been somewhat lost. She worries for the young activists: “You feel like you can’t help in any way.”

Tamara says it’s painful to see the situation in Russia growing worse and worse: “I think, why don’t people come to their senses? These are absurd decisions. For what? What are we suffering for? I say ‘we’ because we suffer too. I suffer along with my children. I’m not afraid for myself — nothing will happen to me. I’m only afraid for my children.”

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The 400 Blows/Les Cuatre Cents Coups (1959)

By Cris Nyne

The directorial debut of pioneering French filmmaker, François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, left a lasting imprint on the timeline of international cinema. To know Truffaut’s history before becoming director makes the film even more of a remarkable achievement. His life began as a troubled youth, engaging in petty crimes and was well on his way to a path of self-destruction. It was in his late teenage years when recognized film critic André Bazin would take Truffaut under his wing and give him a job as critic for the film magazine Cahiers du cinéma. During this time, Truffaut would become recognized as a brutal critic of French films. His infamy stretched to Festival de Cannes, where he would be denied accreditation in 1958. The following year in 1959, Truffaut would get his revenge by being crowned Best Director for The 400 Blows at Cannes. This all by the age of 27. Truffaut would continue to turn the film industry on its head and help pave the way for what today is known as French New Wave.

“If the New Wave marks the dividing point between classic and modern cinema (and many think it does), then Truffaut is likely the most beloved of modern directors -- the one whose films resonated with the deepest, richest love of moviemaking.” -Roger Ebert August 8, 1999

The 400 Blows is a semi-autobiographical tale that follows the young star Jean-Pierre Léaud as the mischievous Antoine Doinel. Antoine is humiliated by his teacher, skips school, steals, and smokes cigarettes while contemplating a better life A life away from his father’s failures and his mother’s affairs. Both parents find themselves exhausted of all options for their son (or the lack of attention they care to provide) and send him off to a school for troubled children. From the beginning of the film, his parents seem to have other priorities in filling the hole in their marriage, and Antoine is essentially a victim of having too much unsupervised time on his hands. By the end of the film, Antoine is contemplating his life outside of the observation center for delinquent youth. He makes a dash for it.

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“The movie is full of actual incidents from Truffaut’s childhood, including his fabricating his mother’s death as an excuse for truancy. Few movies have been so personal.” -J.Hoberman, The New York Times September 21, 2022

The movie was well received by audiences and critics alike. He won Best Director at Cannes in 1959, as well as a nominee for the Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded at Cannes. The French regional newspaper Nice-Matin claimed The 400 Blows to be “A Masterpiece”. The chemistry between Léaud and Truffaut was strong. They would go on to make three more feature films with Léaud revising his role as Antoine Doinel, Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on the Run (1979). Currently, Rotten Tomatoes lists The 400 Blows with a rating of 94%.

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The film is in black and white and is shot in a very personal manner. There are lots of close-space encounters that make you feel as if you are squeezing into the room with them. The house that Antoine lives with his mother and father is very small. During one scene as Antoine is sleeping, his mother, Gilberte Doinel (played by Claire Maurier), comes home after a long night and cannot open the door all the way as it is stopped by the mattress that Antoine sleeps on. There are many fun street scenes shot from different angles- subterranean, street-level, and roof tops, that portray Antoine and his friends plotting and scheming around the streets of Paris. There are a few scenes that follow the main character along a stretch of blocks, and I found myself thinking about how smooth the camerawork was.

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During its filming and release date, The 400 Blows took the idea of conventional filmmaking and shredded the blueprint. The director was only known as a stubborn critic and the main star of the film was completely unknown. The script was a unique story, one that, for the most part, Truffaut had lived and had made it through to tell the tale of a rebellious and delinquent child on a bad path. A child that by today’s standards would probably be diagnosed with an attention deficit disorder and prescribed medication. What was once an extremely unconventional approach to filmmaking has now become a standard in delivering a storyline. Truffaut’s confidence in leaping from critic to auteur has left a rippling effect that you can still see over 7 decades later.

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This ! https://observer.com/2022/10/my-policeman-a-mature-sophisticated-sexy-love-triangle-that-will-break-your-heart/

Oh, I didn’t realize Rex Reed was still doing movie reviews. I think getting reviews from queer men is so important for this film. And I think he says some really accurate and wonderful things about it (other than referring to it as a “bisexual love triangle“. I truly don’t understand that take).

When I saw it at the Toronto International Film Festival, I found it mature, sophisticated, sexy, and moving enough to reduce me to tears. Since this usually happens as rarely as a tax rebate and almost always involves films about poverty, abandoned children and adorable dogs in jeopardy, I was stunned by my emotional reaction and prepared for the declaration of a masterpiece. Now that it has opened commercially to the disturbingly tepid indifference of largely mixed reviews, I am, in the words of Lorenz Hart, bewitched, bothered and bewildered. To be fair, it has also received some well-deserved raves, but much of what I’ve read is misinformed, misguided, misleading, and mindless. (Also, in some cases, homophobic.) My advice: if you read something negative about My Policeman, ignore it and see this exemplary film for yourself. You’ll be glad you did.

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Harry Styles may be the commercial lure, but although he infuses the narrative with a certain glamor, he is only one cog in a perfect wheel. His nude sex scenes with David Dawson are graphic but genuine, involving both physical attraction and spiritual depth of feeling. It’s a rare experience when any film passes these passions on to the viewer with such sensitivity. This is why I was so moved by the way the characters are portrayed—both in the throes of youth and when the trio is decades older. Nothing in this picture is sensationalized for its own sake. Everything depicted is necessary to tell the story correctly—and everything is photographed with insight and splendor by Ben Davis, who also shot The Banshees of Inisherin. The film becomes increasingly more compelling as it reaches its undeniably emotional conclusion. Both the intimacy and the expansive pain and bravery of bigger emotions in My Policeman leave you with a sense of galvanizing hope.

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Family dynamics: Happiness and trauma will be a part of Heartland's 17th season

There is a scene near the end of Heartland’s Season 17 opener where the Fleming sisters are cloud-watching near a pond in the fields of Alberta.

For the most part, CBC’s Sunday-night favourite has been seen as a family-friendly enterprise known for its horses, wholesome humour, romance, beautiful scenery and the odd flash of gentle drama. Nevertheless, characters will inevitably go through quite a bit of life-altering tumult over 17 years, no matter how idyllic the backdrop. For Amy Fleming (Amber Marshall) and older sister Lou (Michelle Morgan), that has included everything from mourning the death of their mother and enduring youthful romantic complications as the series began through divorce, motherhood, various professional setbacks and, most dramatically, the sudden death of Amy’s husband and fan favourite Ty (Graham Wardle) in later years.

So this moving scene between sisters in the show’s 250th episode offers a nice throwback to where it all began.

The sequence is hardly inconsequential in terms of plot. To avoid spoilers, however, we’ll just say the two are contemplating certain aspects of Amy’s future. But it’s also a nice refresher of the relationship between the Fleming sisters and the actors who play them, which was a large part of the appeal back when CBC first aired the Calgary-shot rural drama in 2007.

“The truth is, for Amber and I, luckily our relationship has flourished over the years and we get along better than ever,” says Morgan, who will be joining her castmates for a Calgary International Film Festival screening and Q&A on Sept. 28 at the Jubilee Auditorium. “With some shows, people get really sick of each other and don’t get along anymore but we have a great relationship and when we do scenes like that, it’s not super often. So we appreciate it. It’s like ‘This is nice, this is great.’ We get to do this scene as sisters. We get to be in the beautiful place by the pond. We love doing stuff like that because it’s not typical, we’re not often doing scenes like that. We were talking about it, behind the scenes, how great it was to do it.”

One of the reasons the Heartland universe has survived for 17 years is because it continues to expand. The Fleming sisters arrived at the ranch owned by the kind and wise Grandpa Jack Bartlett (Shaun Johnston) in 2007, not long after their mother had died. Amy was only 16 at the time. They were introduced to ranching life, met the townsfolk of the fictional Hudson, Alberta, and were reunited with their estranged father Tim (Chris Potter). In the very first episode, Amy met Ty, a troubled stable boy who quickly became a big part of life on the Bartlett ranch.

But the teens eventually turned to adults. There were marriages. Every couple of seasons, a new troubled teenager or pre-teen would appear to complicate life on the ranch. Eventually, a second generation of children was born. In Season 17, which debuts Oct. 1 on CBC, one of the arcs seems to be the coming-of-age of Lou’s daughter Katie, who has been played by Calgarian Baye McPherson since Season 15. While her age isn’t clearly specified, she is clearly a teen, right down to the eye-rolling exchanges she has with her uncool parents.

“Isn’t that crazy?” says Morgan, who directed two episodes of Season 17. “My daughter in the show is a bit younger but almost the same age as Amy in the first season.”

While the cast remained remarkably consistent over the years, characters came and went. The character of Georgie, played by Alisha Newton, will not be a part of Season 17. But in another reminder of the show’s longevity, the first episode will involve Mallory (Jessica Amlee), a fan favourite who began life as a meddlesome pre-teen in Season 1 and returned in Season 16 as a mother-to-be at a crossroads in her life.

Still, judging from the first episode, there will be plenty of room given to the original protagonists of the series this year. Morgan says Lou will deal with some professional calamities while revisiting some childhood trauma that unearths some family drama. As Season 17 begins, she is campaigning for another term as mayor of Hudson. Her opponent is her friend and former co-worker Rick Adderly (played by Aidan Moreno), who was introduced at the beginning of Season 14 as the chief administrative officer of Hudson. Lou feels blindsided and a little betrayed by Rick’s political ambitions and spends part of the first episode debating whether she needs to start running a negative campaign against him, something that her father suggests is necessary but her daughter is against.

As the first LGBTQ+ character in the series, Rick represents another step in the expansion of the Heartland universe. In 2019, the short-lived spinoff web series Hudson introduced a gay character, but Rick is the first for the main TV series in 17 years.

“When we did Hudson, it felt a little bit risky,” says Morgan. “It felt like we were taking a big swing or something. I was glad we were taking it, it was long overdue, but with Aidan coming on board it was more like ‘OK, come on guys, this is not a big deal. This is the right actor for the part, this is his character, he’s excellent.’ It just felt a little more natural and easy and it wasn’t a big deal. I think it probably still was a big deal for some viewers but too bad for them.”

As Grandpa Jack espouses with trademark homespun wisdom in the voice-over narration for the trailer for Season 17: “Families, they come in all shapes and sizes.” Amy is now a single mother who went through a significant period of mourning after the death of her husband. But if Season 17 will see Lou going through some tough times, Marshall says Amy’s focus this year will be on moving past tragedy after Ty’s death.

“Just having the family unit together, unified and looking to the future I think is so important,” Marshall says. “The Heartland family has seen so many ups and downs over the last few years and Amy especially with losing her husband several years ago. It was a very delicate line that we had to travel as far as paying respect to that character and also allowing her to move on and find happiness again. So I do believe this season, Amy has found happiness and she is starting to branch out and do things she hasn’t done before and maybe date a little bit and so I think, for the fans, it’s time. We’ve given it its grieving room and Amy can go explore life again a little bit.”

But for any series, there will inevitably come a time when the story ends. Neither Morgan nor Marshall thinks Season 17 will be the last, but they both say they think about how Canada’s longest-running hour-long drama will take its final bow.

“I always wonder: When this series comes to an end, how are we going to tie it with a bow?” Marshall says. “It’s something that I would hope we knew going into the last season so we could arc all of the characters and the stories so they would have that final tie-together. But, again, it’s something we don’t know. We’re renewed year by year. With a series, you have a little bit of flexibility. Each season could be a cliffhanger, but you don’t want to do that if you’re not coming back. So it’s a really fine line of storytelling.”

Heartland Season 17 debuts Oct. 1 on CBC. The Calgary International Film Festival will hold a screening of Episode 1 and a live Q&A with cast members Amber Mashall, Michelle Morgan, Shaun Johnston and Chris Potter at the Jubilee Auditorium at 7 p.m. Visit ciffcalgary.ca.

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Holidays 4.17

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American Academy of Arts and Letters Charter Day

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Weekly Holidays beginning April 17 (3rd Week)

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International Istanbul Film Festival Istanbul, Turkey) [thru 4.28]

PEAK 2024 (Minneapolis, Minnesota) [thru 4.19]

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Bernat Klein (Artology)

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Bell Hoppy (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)

Blue Exorcist (Anime TV Series; 2011)

Box Top Robbery (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 41; 1960)

Bright Road (Film; 1953)

Bugs Bunny’s Overtures to Disaster (WB Cartoon TV Special; 1991)

By Love Possessed, by James Gould Cozzens (Novel; 1958)

Caveman (Film; 1981)

Concerto for Piano, by Emánuel Moór (Piano Concerto; 1908)

Crank: High Voltage (Film; 2009)

Den of Thieves, by James B. Stewart (Book; 1992)

Desperado, by The Eagles (Album; 1973)

A Fault in the Vault or Banks a Million (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 42; 1960)

Fetch the Bolt Cutters, by Fiona Apple (Album; 2020)

Game of Thrones (TV Series; 2011)

The Great American Melting Pot (America Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1976)

Heart & Soul, R&B version by The Cleftones (Song; 1961)

Hic-cup Pup (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1954)

Imitation of Life (Film; 1959)

Let’s Go (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1937)

Light’s Out (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)

McCartney, by Paul McCartney (Album; 1970)

Mickey’s Amateurs (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

Mother Goose Melodies (Disney Cartoon; 1931)

Out of Africa, by Karen Blixen (Memoir; 1937)

The Peregrine, by J.A. Baker (Novel; 1967)

Planet Rock, by Africa Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force (Album; 1982)

Porky’s Duck Hunt (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)

Radio Girl (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)

Rocket Man, by Elton John (Song; 1973)

State of Play (Film; 2009)

Tina: The Musical (West End Musical; 2018)

The Watcher in the Woods (Film; 1980)

The White Mountains, by John Christopher (Novel; 1967) [Tripods #1]

Winner by a Hare (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1953)

A Wolf in Cheap Clothing (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)

Today’s Name Days

Eberhard, Rudolph (Austria)

Ilija, Inocent, Šimun (Croatia)

Rudolf (Czech Republic)

Anicetus (Denmark)

Ege, Eike, Hiie (Estonia)

Otto (Finland)

Anicet (France)

Eberhard, Isadora, Max, Wanda (Germany)

Rudolf (Hungary)

Anicet, Arcangelo, Roberto, Rondolfo (Italy)

Rūdis, Rūdolfs, Viviāna (Latvia)

Anicetas, Dravenis, Giedrius, Robertas, Skaidra (Lithuania)

Elise, Elsa (Norway)

Anicet, Innocenta, Innocenty, Jakub, Józef, Klara, Radociech, Robert, Roberta, Rudolf, Rudolfa, Rudolfina, Stefan (Poland)

Simeon (Romania)

Rudolf (Slovakia)

Aniceto (Spain)

Elias, Elis (Sweden)

Harding, Hardy, Holden, Raleigh (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 108 of 2024; 258 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 16 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 4 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 9 (Xin-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 9 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 8 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 18 Cyan; Foursday [18 of 30]

Julian: 4 April 2024

Moon: 68%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 24 Archimedes (4th Month) [Vitruvius]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 30 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 28 of 31)

#Holidays

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Two birthdays today from the film industry, I don’t know much about either , but they were only born a year apart on January 8th.

Happy Birthday Gillies MacKinnon, born in Glasgow in 1948.

After studying mural painting at Glasgow School of Art, he became an art teacher and professional cartoonist, and spent six months travelling with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara, what an adventure that must have been!

He studied at Middlesex Polytechnic in the 1970s and the National Film and Television School in the early 1980s. His graduation short Passing Glory, an austere recreation of the Glasgow of his youth, was premiered at the 1986 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won the first Scottish Film Prize. He then went on two direct two projects for BBC 2’S Screen Two, Small Faces, about three teenage brothers, in a downtrodden section of 1960’s Glasgow and The Grass Arena the true story of John Healy, a boxer turned alcoholic turned chess master portrayed by Mark Rylance. The film won several prizes, including the Edinburgh Film Festival’s Michael Powell Award for Best British Film.

MacKinnon also directed notable TV shows including, Trial and Retribution and George Gently. More recently he directed the TV film Torvill and Dean, and the latest version of Whisky Galore.

I recommend his latest work, a film called The Last Bus…….Life is a journey and The Last Bus takes pensioner Tom Harper (Timothy Spall) on an epic trip from the remote village he calls home, back to the place where he was born. The film also stars our very own Phyllis Logan, in it Spall uses his free bus pass to travel from John O'Groats to Land’s End in Cornwall, It's a joyful film that is also sad in places.

The second birthday boy is Iain Smith was born in Glasgow in 1949, and graduated from the London Film School in 1971.

He worked in London for several years before returning to his native Scotland to make “My Childhood”, for the British Film Institute, the first of the award winning trilogy.

He formed his own production company in partnership with Jon Schorstein and produced television commercials, documentaries, children’s feature films and low budget dramas, and in 1978 production managed Bertrand Tavernier’s “Deathwatch” starring Romy Schneider and Harvey Keitel. A year later he joined David Puttnam and Hugh Hudson to make “Chariots of Fire” starring Ian Charleson and Ben Cross.

Smith has worked with some of the best actors in Hollywood, including Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly, Robert De Niro in the Mission and Spygame with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. His most famous Scottish work is arguably as an associate producer of Local Hero. He alson worked on some Hollywood titles including The Fifth Element, The A Team(movie) and The Killing Fields.

Iain Smith has served on the boards of the UK Film Council, Scottish Screen, the Joint board of Creative Scotland, the Scottish Film Council, the Scottish Film Production Fund, the Scottish Film Training Trust as a Governor of the National Film and Television School, a director of the Children’s Film and Television Foundation, and as Chair of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

#scottish #scotland #filmmaking #filmakers #film director #film producers #happy birhtday

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The Monkey King Conquers the Demon (1985) 金猴降妖

Director: Te Wei / Yan Dingxian / Lin Wenxiao

Screenwriter: Te Wei / Bao Lei

Starring: Li Yang / Tan Pengfei / Hong Rong / Wu Lusheng / Chariot / more...

Genre: Drama / Animation / Fantasy

Country/Region of Production: Mainland China

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Date: 1985 (Mainland China)

Duration: 90 minutes / 125 minutes (TV version)

Also known as: The Golden Monkey Conquers the Demon

IMDb: tt2572208

Type: Retelling

Summary:

It is said that Sun Wukong, Great Sage Equally Heaven, Zhu Bajie, the Canopy Marshal, and Monk Sha, Rolling Curtain General, protect Tang Monk from the west to learn Buddhist scriptures. After going through a lot of hardships along the way, they subdue countless demons and ghosts. On this day, the four masters and apprentices came to a barren mountain.

At this time, a young village girl came forward to ask for help, and Sun Wukong recognized with piercing eyes that it was the monster Bone Demon, and beat her away. However, Tang Sanzang, with his naked mortal eyes, blamed Wukong for harming his life, and Zhu Bajie fanned the flames, chanting the mantra so tightly that Monkey King was in unbearable pain.

After that, the White Bone Essence turned into a child and an old man to trick him, but Wukong saw them all and beat them away. Tang Seng was so angry that he drove away Wukong in a fit of anger, and thus fell into the trick of the monster...

This film is adapted from the story in the classic classic "Journey to the West", and won the 1986 China Film Golden Rooster Award for Best Animation Film; The 1985 Excellent Film Award of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television; In 1987, he won the feature film award and the popular award at the Youth Animation Film Festival of the French Burpolas Cultural Club; 1989 Chicago International Children's Film Festival Animation Feature Film First Prize.

Source: http://chinesemov.com/1985/The-Monkey-King-Conquers-the-Demon.html

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmLXmXVx7Oo&ab_channel=HappyAcademy

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Holidays 6.26

Holidays

Alexandra Rose Day

Anti Drugs Day (India)

Armed Forces Day (UK)

Army & Navy Day (Azerbaijan)

Bar Code Day (a.k.a. UPC Day)

Beautician's Day

Boardwalk Day

Canoe Day

Day of the Armed Forces (Azerbaijan)

Festival of the Tarasque (France)

Flag Day (Romania)

Forgiveness Day

Global Africa Day

Good Earth Day

Good Manners Day

Guru Rinpoche Day (Bhutan)

Harry Potter Day

Human Genome Day

International Angel Shark Day

International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (UN)

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (UN)

International Stitch Day

LGBTQ Equality Day

National Beautician’s Day

National Cancer Wellness Awareness Day (Canada)

National Canoe Day (Canada)

National DCE (Director of Christian Education) Day

National Fossil Day (Australia)

National Milkman Day

National Ranboo Day

National Rat Catcher’s Day

National Report Trade Agreement Act Fraud Day

National Sarah Day

National Sports Day (Fiji)

National Toothbrush Day

National Zachary Day

Ommegang Pageant begins (Belgium) [Ends 7.6]

Pied Piper of Hamelin Day (according to the Brothers Grimm)

Same Sex Marriage Day

Senior Citizen’s Day (Mason County, Michigan)

626 Day (Lilo & Stitch)

Shallot Day (French Republic)

Sunthorn Phu Day (Thailand)

Supply Chain Geek Day

UN Charter Day

World Bunny Chow Day

World Nupe Day (Nigeria)

World Refrigeration Day

Wrong Trousers Day (Wallace & Gromit)

Ziua Tricolorului (Flag Day; Romania)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chocolate Pudding Day

National Coconut Day

National Haskap Berry Day

Tropical Cocktails Day

4th & Last Monday in June

Please Take My Children To Work Day [Last Monday]

Independence Days

Madagascar (from France, 1960)

Schwanensee (Swan Lake; Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

St. George (Principality Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Anthelm of Belley (Christian; Saint)

Archie McPhee Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Branwell Brontë (Artology)

Carbonara Day (Pastafarian)

David the Dendrite (Christian; Saint)

El Cid (Positivist; Saint)

Feast of All Saints

Hermogius (Christian; Saint)

Isabel Florence Hapgood (Episcopal Church)

Jack (Muppetism)

Jeremiah (Lutheran)

John and Paul (Christian; Saint)

José María Robles Hurtado (One of Saints of the Cristero War; Christian)

Josemaría Escrivá (Christian; Saint)

Mar Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)

Maria (Muppetism)

Pelagius of Córdoba (Christian; Saint)

Pelayo (Christian; Saint)

Solstitium I (Pagan)

Vigilius of Trent (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

After the Rain, by Nelson (Album; 1990)

Baby, I Love Your Way, by Peter Frampton (Song; 1976)

Darby O’Gill and the Little People (Film; 1959)

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1870) [Ring of the Nibelung #2]

Donald in Mathematic Land (Disney Cartoon; 1959)

Dragonslayer (Film; 1981)

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Film; 2020)

For Your Eyes Only (US Film; 1981) [James Bond #12]

Full Metal Jacket (Film; 1987)

The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin Film; 1925)

Goo, by Sonic Youth (Album; 1990)

The Great Muppet Caper (Film; 1981)

A Hard Day’s Night, by The Beatles (Album; 1964)

The Hurt Locker (Film; 2009)

Jean de Florette (Film; 1987)

Muzzle Tough (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)

My Spy (Film; 2020)

Never a Dull Moment (Film; 1968)

Out of Sight (Film; 1998)

The Philosopher’s Stone (a.k.a. Sorcerer's Stone), by J.K. Rowling (Novel; 1997) [Harry Potter #1]

Spaceballs (Film; 1987)

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (Film; 1952)

Stripes (Film; 1981)

Sweet Sioux (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Symphony No. 9, by Gustav Mahler (Symphony; 1912)

Ted 2 (Film; 2015)

Who Let the Dogs Out, by the Baha Men (Album; 2000)

Today’s Name Days

Anthelm, Vigilius (Austria)

David (Bulgaria)

Ivan, Pavao, Vigilije, Zoran (Croatia)

Adriana (Czech Republic)

Pelagius (Denmark)

Manivald, Vaane, Vaano, Vaino, Vane, Vanevald (Estonia)

Jarkko, Jarmo, Jarno, Jere, Jeremias, Jorma (Finland)

Anthelme (France)

David, Konstantin, Paul, Vigil (Germany)

Makarios (Greece)

János, Pál (Hungary)

Elisa, Filippo, Rodolfo, Vigilio (Italy)

Ausma, Dzejs, Ingūna, Inguns, Ulvis (Latvia)

Jaunius, Jaunutis, Viltautė, Virgilijus (Lithuania)

Jenny, Jonny (Norway)

Jan, Jeremi, Jeremiasz, Paweł, Zdziwoj (Poland)

David (România)

Adriána (Slovakia)

José, Pelayo (Spain)

Lea, Rakel (Sweden)

Arley, Harlan, Harlene, Harley, Thelma (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 177 of 2024; 188 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 26 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 15 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 9 (Yi-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 7 Tammuz 5783

Islamic: 7 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444

J Cal: 27 Sol; Sixday [27 of 30]

Julian: 13 June 2023

Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter

Positivist: 9 Charlemagne (7th Month) [El Cid]

Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 6 of 94)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 6 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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— Tamino for Libération, 2018 (x) (Original French text)

Tamino, Amir do you hear...

Still unknown last year, the young Belgian singer of Egyptian origin wants to be circumspect in the face of the announced success.

by Gilles Renault, photo Marleen Daniels for “Liberation”published on October 26, 2018 at 5:06 p.m.(updated at 6:10 p.m.)

To well-born souls, value not waiting for the number of years, here comes another Belgian kid knocking at the door of musical fame. The Walloon Infanta Angèle, barely hatched in the light song department for children, likely to titillate the grown-ups, makes way for Tamino, 22, an indifferently Flemish - and mixed-blood - replica of a strong magnitude within an industry in perpetual quest for fresh flesh.

As recently as last year, the three syllables only referred to the Oriental Prince of The Magic Flute, a Mozartian hero pursued by a snake and saved by the Queen of the Night who, in return, commissions him to fly to the aid of her daughter. However, by the grace of the nickname connoted, the obliging ephebe becomes, in 2018, one of the most serious hopes of the European pop scene, ready to capsize the choirs.

A hundred and eighty-eight centimeters of haughty youth, swaddled in an endless black sweater (and unwearable, for a quidam) branded Ann Demeulemeester, matching the flagrant charm of a dark romanticism à la Louis Garrel, Amir Moharam Fouad wears handsome with his left ear ring. But does not seem to make much of it, in the art-deco house surrounded by greenery of the maternal grandparents, where he gives audience on his land, in Antwerp, a few days before the international release of a much awaited first album "based on a harmonious blend of oppositions, hot - cold, bright - dark, western - eastern…”.

Indeed, for months in Belgium first, then in France and elsewhere, all the halls and festivals (Printemps de Bourges, Rock en Seine, Montreux) have been rolling out the red carpet in front of the steep romanticism of the precocious English-speaking prodigy. Germinated in the spring, a song, Habibi, was enough to raise the temperature, an embrocation steeped in spleen, climbing so cheerfully in the treble that it revived this flame once fanned by the late Jeff Buckley - to stick to a filiation which he cannot escape. Since then, the fever has not gone down.

Sitting on a big gym ball behind the grandfather's desk, the neo-crooner deceives it without hesitation, while taking care to maintain the private sphere within a security perimeter: it will be necessary to be satisfied with the minimum service - "a girlfriend, for a long time" - in the taste buds department. Just as the hypothesis of a meeting at home was politely dismissed, on the grounds that the Antwerp apartment into which he moved a year ago hardly represents him, fault, already caught up in the whirlwind of concerts and the recording of the disc, to have had time to open all the boxes.

Conversely, Tamino rightly feels at home in the home of Lucas and “Nonna” Gerda, affectionate ancestors who still brood over the infant whose sleepless hours were brushed with Mozart. The little boy who “transformed the living room into a place of theatrical performance”. The child "often in his bubble who, eager for reading, promised to one day transform into films the stories that captivated him". Then the teenager who, having no Christmas present to offer his grandmother, "went to her room for an hour, writing her a song at a moment's notice" - whose framed manuscript is now hanging on the wall.

Going back in the annals, we come across another Moharam Fouad who, on stage, once caused syncope. Adored actor and prolific singer (his track record counts 900 tunes), the roucouleur who died in 2002 was one of the Egyptian figures of the golden age of Arabic song, in the 60s and 70s. Dogs don't make cats; Tamino has a deep respect for his paternal grandfather, whose guitar he now uses like a talisman; while specifying to have been especially marked, child, by the melodic unction of John Lennon, or the considerations on the life, the love and the friendship of the Prophet, of the Lebanese author Khalil Gibran.

“If I have a role to play today, it's that of a unifier through my music. A large part of the evils that overwhelm our society comes from the ignorance that generates these prejudices fueling rejection and racism", extrapolates the "citizen of the world", not stingy with clichés for which he apologizes, while praising a spirituality kindly abstruse, based on a transcendence that defies monotheisms.

Growing up in a land where the Vlaams Belang - the Flemish far-right party - is fanning the embers of intolerance, Tamino - who, due to his young age, won't vote for the first time in his life until next year , to the municipal ones - prefers to appeal to the weighting. “Certainly, with my head and my name, I know that in the event of a random identity check, in a crowd, it will undoubtedly fall on me. But to be frank, I must admit that I have never had to suffer from discrimination for all that”, assures the ephebe, born of a Belgian mother, anthropologist, and an Egyptian father working today in events, who separate when he is just 3 years old - and his little brother has just been born (two half-brothers will follow, one on each side).

Retaining the "friendliness and open-mindedness" of the first, and the "humor" of the second - a moment lost sight of and today requalified as an excellent "friend" - Tamino assures, as far as he remembers, always wanting to be an artist. Even though the study of languages and behavioral sciences do not leave the high school student indifferent, music is indeed very quickly imposed on his eyes - and his ears - as the "most natural way of expressing himself". The shyness overcome at the conservatory of Amsterdam, where he will perfect his scales at the age of 17, Tamino nevertheless continues to appreciate this loneliness which, in the past, encouraged him to "stay two hours hidden reading under the desk of the grandfather". Or to take refuge in phantasmagoria, at this age when, ordinarily, boys seriously begin to stare at girls.

"Still today, isolation is not displeasing to me, and I know very well how to adapt to silence", certifies the seed of star, whose sincerity does not seem subject to caution. Without this preventing him from adding, a little later in the exchange, that he would see no incompatibility therewith with the fact of "becoming the new Bono". A brazenness that hastens to defuse an ingenuous smile, pushing away the still distant specter of disappointed hopes.

October 24, 1996 Born in Mortsel (Belgium).

2017 Release of the song Habibi in Belgium and first big concert, at the Werchter festival.

October 19, 2018 Release of the album Amir.

November 19 Concert at the Café de la danse (full).

#tamino #tamino amir #libération #article #interview #french #2018 #without photoshoot #english translated text #thank u cinemalamet on twt for helping with the translation <3 #disclaimer to everyone that she said this article is 'too french' to properly translate so please just cope with the translation #as it is KJXHGURHGJK #some good gems of trivia though! like him using a gym ball as a chair and #writing a song for his grandmother in an hour because he didnt get her a christmas present

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mi4011amandithewarathanthri · 1 year

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Assessment 1

2. conduct research into their life stories

Wladyslaw Starewicz - life and work

The first Polish animator and one of the first animation makers in the world

He was born in 1882 in Moscow to a Polish family (through his places of residence and work he would become acquainted with Lithuanian, Russian and French cinematography). He spent his childhood and youth in Kaunas, in present-day Lithuania where, as a four-year-old boy, he was adopted by his mother’s parents after she died. Early drawings revealed his significant artistic talent - he liked photography and was interested in cinematography, which at the time was still an innovation, as well as nature, particularly in the insects which he so passionately collected.

Starewicz decided to purse an artistic career by enrolling into a painting school, despite how disapproving his family was of this choice.

1910 - he was awarded the title of Director of the Museum of Natural History in Kaunas, Lithuania. His first foray into filmmaking included making a series of four short documentaries, however it was in live action.

He didn’t start delving into animation until his fifth movie. This was also meant to be a documentary intending to “show the life of stag beetles.” However, he was incensed to find that it was impossible to capture two stag belts fighting due to the beetles dying from the light of the stage lighting.

This gave rise to his first stop motion piece featured two stag beetles in battle, named “Lucanus Cervus” (1910), after their scientific name. It was the first ever animated puppet film in Russia. He used wires to put their limbs back on, dressed them in knight outfits and then moved them, capturing individual movement phases frame by frame.

He started working with Khanzhonkov in 1911. Aleksandr Khanzhonkov was the world's first maker of a cartoon film, the first maker of a full-time feature film in Russia and the founder of the first Russian film studio (Studio Khanzhonkov) in 1905. Here, Starewicz continued his passion for stop motion, mostly using his dead bug collection as his character models.

1912 - “The Beautiful Leukandia.” Was an adaptation about the tale of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

1912 - “the cameraman’s revenge.” This was his most famous piece of work and is widely regarded as the piece that pioneered stop motion as an art form. When the film first premiered audiences actually thought that Starewicz had managed to train live bugs to act. It was a short comedy drama movie about marital infidelity, jealously, and of course revenge. The animated story was not made for children, which was quite uncommon at the time. Starewicz showed how versatile animation as a medium can be and how it can be curated for an older audience.

The success of The ant and the grasshopper (1913/1911) is also worth mentioning – an adaptation of a fable by Ivan Krylov that, thanks to a record 140 copies, was seen by viewers all over Europe and America. One copy, packed in a silver box, was given by the producer to a successor of the Russian throne, Alexei Nikolayevich Romanov

“The night before Christmas” (1913). It was Starewicz’s version of the original Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol story. This film featured live action interaction with his animated elements. Some parts even included his daughter Irina.

“Terrible Vengeance” (1913). This movie won the 2014 gold medal at international film festival in Milan.

During WW1, Satrewicz continued to make films. He worked for many different film companies and produced 60 live action movies. After WW1, he changed his name to Ladislas Starevich, as it was easier to pronounce in French, and began diving back into stop motion. During this time he produced: Midnight Wedding, The Scarecrow (1921), Frogland (1922), Love in Black and White (1923), The Voice of the Nightingale (1923), and The Little Street Singer (1924).

In 1924, Starevich moved to Fontenay-sous-Bois, where he lived until his death in 1965. There he made the rest of his films.

The Eyes of the Dragon (1925) — this film was exceptionally impressive due to its complex use of set design and character design. Starewicz’s talent as an artist truly shines through here in set decoration as well as ingenious trick photography.

The Town Rat and the Country Rat (1927) — a parody of American slapstick films.

The Magical Clock (1928) — a fairy tale story

The Little Parade - an adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s story titled ‘the steadfast tin soldier’

“Le Roman de Renard” (1937) — some consider this his best film.

During WW2 he didn’t make any films. After WW2 he made a few more films before passing away: “Zanzabelle a Paris”, “Fern Flower” (This his first movie in colour and won the first prize as an animated film in the 11th International Children Film Festival in Venice Biennale), “Nose to Wind”, “Winter Carousel” (his last completed film), and a half completed film titled “Like Dog and Cat.” He passed away before he could complete this last film.

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apisonadora60 · 2 years

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Cycle. Un bellissimo short film di Sophie Olga de Jong

Oggi vi presentiamo un cortometraggio di animazione realizzato dalla creatività di Sophie Olga de Jong che ci racconta in soli due minuti una emozionante storia a pedali. Quella di una bambina che impara ad andare in bicicletta da suo nonno e scopre che dove finisce la strada inizia la vera avventura. Questo short film è stato proiettato prima di Lo Schiaccianoci della Disney in tutti i Pathé Cinema nei Paesi Bassi.

Cycle by Sophie Olga de Jong. Riconoscimenti

Il cortometraggio Cycle è stato selezionato nei più importanti Film Festival di animazione di tutto il mondo.

Monstra Lisboa, Portugal • Anima Brussels, Belgium • International Children’s and Youth Film Carnival, Hongkong • Anim’Est Festival, Romenia • Cinanima, Portugal • Nederlands Film Festival Utrecht, The Netherlands • Go Short, The Netherlands • Cinekid, The Netherlands • Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany • Seattle International Children Film Festival, USA • Hamptons International Film Festival, USA • Zlín Film Festival for Children & Youth, Czech Republic • Anibar Animation Festival, Kosovo • Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival, Switserland • Festival de Cine de Madrid, Spain • International Kids Film Festival Mumbai, India • Imaginaria Animation Festival, Italy. Awards: Special Mention • Monstra Lisboa, Portugal.

Regia: Sophie Olga de Jong e Sytske Kok Produttori: Willen Thijssen e Nancy Fornovile Sceneggiatura: Sytske Kok Design e animazione: Sophie Olga de Jong Animazione aggiuntiva: Janneke van den Biggelaar, Bram Donders, Kim van Engelen Sound design: Fay Lovsky Finanziato da : The Netherlands Film Fund, Fonds 21, Produzione Pathé Cinema: CinéTé

Fonte:

sophieolga.com

https://urbancycling.it/46645-cycle-un-bellissimo-short-film-di-sophie-olga-de-jong/

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Neuroplasticity Drug-Crime Nexus in Belgique based on Trafficking.

CPP, CNS Depressants, et FENTALOGS: Cul-de-sac

Grey-Decentralized Markets

Bastilles: Cul-de-sac Artist Résidences Penthouse Complexes

Big Room House Raves

Acid House Art Gallery

International Film Festival

Hôtel Chefs

Seigneurial System/Tableau Economique Raw Material Économics Production Spot

Surautomatism

Discount Networking Acid House Party

Opium Dens and Fragrance Festivals

Pill Pressers

CNS depressants

Upper-tier County System

Defense Lawyers are Traplords (Trafficking P4P and Malicious Prosecution)

Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC)

Brain Receptor Dealing

Neuroplasticity Drug-Crime Nexus

Religious Ecstacy

Entheogens are psychedelic drugs—and sometimes certain other psychoactive substances—used for engendering spiritual development or otherwise in sacred contexts

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We are delighted to announce that MA Animation graduate production HOMODEUS has been selected for screening in the Zlín Dog International Student Film Competition which is a part of the 64th Zlín Film Festival.

Zlín Film Festival was established in 1961 and is the oldest and largest film festival of its kind in the world. The festival screenings are conducted not only in Zlín, but also in many other towns in the Czech Republic. Each year the festival presents around 300 films from more than 50 countries around the world. Since 2010 festival attendance has exceeded 95,000 children and adults.

Zlín is connected with film primarily due to the strong history of its film studios, which were founded in 1936 at the behest of Jan Antonín Baťa as a studio for the creation of advertising films of the Baťa footwear empire.

This year’s festival will take place from the 30th of May to the 5th of June 2024.

Congratulations all round!

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korekplaybeta2024 · 4 months

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Menagerie from Jack Gray on Vimeo.

Day after day, inhabitants of the Menagerie play out their daily lives like clockwork.

Menagerie is a study of the daily motions and mundane tasks of contemporary city life. Featuring hundreds of looping animated characters, the film explores how the repetitive actions of our day-to-day lives quickly spiral into an endless kaleidoscope of abstraction.

Awards

-GLAS Animation Festival 2022- US Competition Special Mention -Animation Block Party 2022 - Best In Show Award -Imaginaria Animation Festival 2022 - International Competition Special Mention Award -Fantoche International Animation Festival 2022 - International Competition Special Mention Award - Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival 2022 - Eyepopper Award - Best Experimental & Boundary Pushing

Screenings 2022

- MONSTRA - Lisboa Animation Festival - International Short Film Competition - Lisbon, Portugal - March - Athens ANIMAFEST - Official Selection - Athens, Greece - March - GLAS Animation Festival - US Competition - Berkeley, CA - US Competition - April - International Short Film Festival Oberhausen - Children's and Youth Film Competition - Oberhausen, Germany - May - Flatpack Festival - Short Film Competition - Birmingham, England - May - Directors Notes Official Selection - Brighton, UK -May - Animatricks Animation Festival Helsinki - Official Selection - Helsinki, Finland - May - ANNY Animation Nights New York - Screened in Program #71, Season 7 In Competition Films - New York USA - May - Krakow Film Festival - International Short Film Competition - Krakow, Poland - May - Sydney Film Festival - Animation Program - Sydney, Australia - June - Fest Anča - World Panorama - Žilina, Slovakia - June - Screening at Substance Skatepark with NPCC.NYC, Supertight, Massacre Video - summer fest 2022 - Brooklyn, USA - June - Cardiff Animation Nights - Screening at The Underdog - Cardiff, Wales - July - X Insomnia International Open-Air Animation Film Festival - International Competition - Moscow, Russia - July - International Animation Festival Chilemonos - International Short Film Competition - Santiago, Chile - July - Imaginaria Animation Festival - Official Selection - Conversano, Italy - August - Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival - Animated Short Competition - Providence, RI - August - Animation Block Party - Official Selection - Brooklyn, NYC - August - Salute Your Shorts - Official Selection - Los Angeles, CA - August - Festival of Animation Berlin - international Competition - Berlin, Germany - September - Pictoplasma - Official Selection - Berlin, Germany - September - Reykjavik International Film Festival - Youth Program - Reykjavik, Iceland - September - Fantoche International Animation Film Festival - International Competition & Kids Film Competition - Baden, Switzerland - September - Supernova Digital Animation Festival - Official Competition - Denver, CO - September - Sedicicorto International Film Festival - ANIMALAB Competition - Forlì, Italy - October - Anim'est International Animation Festival - International Competition - Bucharest, Romania - October - TAIS Animation Showcase - Official Competition - Toronto, Canada - October - Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival - International Program - Baltimore, MD - October - BitBang Animation Festival - International Competition - Buenos Aires, Argentina - October - Festival Cinéma Jeune Public - International Short Competition - Lausanne, Switzerland - November - London International Animation Festival - International Competition - London, England - November - PÖFF Shorts - Non-Competitive Program - Tallinn, Estonia - November - Chicago International Children's Film Festival - Official Selection - Chicago, IL - November - Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival - Official Selection - Calgary, Canada - November - Tatsuno International Film Festival - Official Selection - Tatsuno, Japan - November - CutOut Fest - Official Selection - Querétaro, Mexico - December

2023 - Animac International Animation Film Festival - Official Selection - Catalonia, Spain February - Ann Arbor Film Festival - Animation Competition - Ann Arbor, MI - March -Glasgow Short Film Festival - International Competition & Welcome to the Multiverse program - Glasgow, Scotland - March - Florida Film Festival - Animated Shorts Competition - Orlando, Florida - April - San Diego Underground Film Festival - Official Selection - Los Angeles, CA - May -L'hybride - Best of Flatpack Festival Screening - Lille, France - May - The Moviate Underground Film Festival - Official Selection - Harrisburg, PA - May - Melbourne International Animation Festival - Official Selection - Melbourne, Australia - May - Malt Adult #26 - Screened at Public Works Gallery, Chicago, IL - May - Palm Springs International Shortfest - Official Selection - Palm Springs, CA - June - La Guarimba Film Festival - La Grotta dei Piccoli Competition - Calabria - Italy - August

Jack Gray 2022

Sound Design Judy Kim

Voice Alicia Maye

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