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Truly big ideas — advances that overturn hundreds if not thousands of years of conventional thinking — are in general notoriously difficult to distill in nonfiction reportage, even for an audience who might be receptive to the change they offer. But director Liz Marshall’s Meat the Future, executive produced by Moby and celebrated filmmaker Chris Hegedus, among others, does just that.

Ricky Kej was born in North Carolina on August 5, 1981. At the age of eight, the family moved to Bangalore, where he still resides.

Last month, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced an additional grant of $75,000 to the New York-based non-profit organization, the Committee to Protect Journalists, targeted to help their efforts in Ukraine. Since 2017, the HFPA has granted them almost $2 million to defend press freedom worldwide and protect journalists and their right to report the news freely and without fear.

The non-profit organization Women’s Voices Now, founded in 2010, was established to drive positive social change with the purpose of advancing girls’ and women’s rights globally. The organization was built on the idea that women’s voices and their struggle for equality around the world should be supported.

American Aristocracy is a silent 5-reel 52-minute comedy released by Triangle Film Corporation on November 12, 1916, starring Douglas Fairbanks in one of his earliest roles. Directed by Lloyd Ingraham, the film presents Jewel Carmen as Fairbanks’ love interest and Albert Parker as the antagonist.

Standing in front of the same Westwood movie theater where his 1991 film New Jack City premiered 31 years ago, filmmaker Mario Van Peebles can’t help but reflect on that night as he celebrates the restored 35mm print opening the “Perpetratin’ Realism” program, sponsored by the American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.   The blistering crime thriller and gangster movie opened in theatres on March 8, 1991 – four days after the world first saw the video of LAPD officers beating Rodney King, and the premiere became the setting for brawls and gun violence in New York, Chicago, and Las Vegas, resulting in at least one death.

Daryl Hannah was born in Chicago in 1960. Her mother’s second husband was the brother of cinematographer Haskell Wexler, which gave her a familiarity with the film world.

Venice Arts, founded in the early 90s, is one of the most important organizations in fostering young talent in California. With eight full-time staff and around 10 part-time employees, it serves to ignite, expand, and transform the lives of LA’s low-income youth through photography and film.

Are more families finally feeling safer about going back to the cineplexes? The record box office figures of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, pegged at $71 million, the highest weekend debut ever of a video game adaptation movie in the United States and Canada, maybe a promising sign. Paul Dergarabedian, a veteran box office analyst with Comscore, which offers real-time movie and television services, said to the media, “There has been some indication that families wanted to go back with movies like Sing 2 but it has moved in fits and starts.

The overall ranking of films at the Italian box office for the first half of the 2021/2022 season is out. A hard blow for Italian productions: only one Italian film managed to gain a space in the top ten: Me contro Te, released last August, a teen comedy starring the two young YouTube stars Sofia Scalia and Luigi Calagna.