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In celebration of National Siblings Day on April 10, we may recall the recent triumph of Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell whose song No Time to Die received multiple accolades, including the Golden Globe for Best Original Song – Motion Picture. Or one of the frontrunners of the recent awards season – the 2015 Golden Globe winner (Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for The Honorable Woman) Maggie Gyllenhaal who was nominated this year for the Golden Globe as Best Director for her directorial debut The Lost Daughter, and her younger brother Jake Gyllenhaal who stars in Michael Bay’s Ambulance, and many other talented Hollywood siblings.

In 2019, Australian filmmaker Damon Gameau produced the acclaimed documentary, 2040, structured as a visual letter to his then-four-year-old daughter Velvet to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us. As Earth Day 2022 approaches, Gameau will be returning to the Gold Coast Film Festival in Queensland – where 2040 premiered - to introduce his new 17-minute short film, Regenerating Australia.

February 21 changed everything for Ukrainian actress Oksana Cherkashyna. Having screened Maryna Er Gorbach’s powerful film Klondike at the prestigious film festivals Sundance and Berlin, she was hoping that an invasion of her home  country Ukraine was not going to be a reality.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) is the leading national nonprofit providing free legal help to journalists and news organizations. For over 50 years, the RCFP has provided free legal representation and support to reporters, editors, documentary filmmakers, media lawyers, and others who use their resources all across the United States.

The winner of two Academy Awards (Best Documentary Feature and Best Song in 2006), An Inconvenient Truth is credited as one of the first films that raised public awareness about the dangers of climate change. As global warming is the greatest environmental challenge today, the power of film about this serious subject is undeniable.

Most people know him for his films, most notably the ones he produced for Quentin Tarantino. Not enough people know him for the incredible work he has been doing for environmental and other causes.

As the CEO and Artistic Director of BlackStar Projects which she founded in 2012, Maori Karmael Holmes is doing her part to ensure diversity in representation becomes an unremarkable reality in all roles of the industry. A writer, curator, and filmmaker, Holmes started the BlackStar Projects in 2012 after noticing a lack of venues for groundbreaking, independent work by Black filmmakers.

Movie enthusiasts probably had seen George Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (Un voyage dans la lune) many times. It’s fun, beautiful, energetic, and full of complex special effects - an extraordinary picture for 1902.

In celebration of the month in which we focus our attention on our home, planet Earth, and the numerous problems that plague it, for many of which humans are responsible, we look back at the cinema which, for a hundred years, has contributed to creating awareness of the importance of caring for nature. Reflecting on the screen the wonders of nature and the current dramas about the interrelation between man and the environment have been, and continue to be, an adventure that has had many exponents in world cinema.

Bif&st-Bari, a small international film festival offering a broad selection of high cultural films, has vastly become one of the leading cinematic events in Italy, a jewel of a place where many artists are awarded the Federico Fellini Platinum Award for Cinematic Excellence. Journalist, film, and television critic, Felice Laudadio has a long history as cultural director in multiple Italian film festivals and is the artistic creator, founder, and director of Bari International Film Festival, which is held in four beautiful theatres, with the stunning Teatro Petruzzelli being one of the most beautiful theatres in the world.