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Jun- 2020 -18 June
ACV Lockdown Listings: Bagri’s Open Up artists interviews; London Indian Film Festival exclusive; Neil Gaiman-JLF ‘Good Omens’ session; Refugee Week end; Summer Solstice Festival; Buddhadeb Dasgupta chat and Leicester kids picks
Eagle eyes on what’s out there online… Art Visiting an art gallery still isn’t possible in many parts of the…
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17 June
‘Women Make Film’ – Why director Mark Cousins wanted Sharmila Tagore as a narrator and several Asian directors’ work featured…
Filmmaker behind the gargantuan project tells us how one of the most famous names in Indian cinema came to be…
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15 June
Sushant Singh Rajput’s death incites Bollywood soul-searching…
Star’s untimely death puts spotlight on mental health issues and shows successful outsiders who break through may face greater pressures……
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15 June
Sushant Singh Rajput – tributes to Bollywood star including Prime Minister Narendra Modi (full story coming)
There was shock and consternation at news of the actor’s sudden death yesterday… THERE has been a huge outpouring of…
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12 June
Black Lives Matter: Looking between the lines – love, culture and art across South Asian and Black communities
Why don’t we see more Black and Asian couples in books and films? How should South Asian communities respond to…
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11 June
ACV Lockdown Listings : ‘Dots’ – World premiere lockdown film supported by UKAFF; Anurag Kashyap LIFFathome interview; ‘Made In India’ play; Anti-racism ‘We R not Virus’ performances; Nitin Ganatra in Tara Tales, ‘The Panchatantra’
Film festivals are finding new ways to deliver content to eager audiences and East Asian Brits take on racism…* Films/Filmmakers…
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8 June
‘Coronation Street’ domestic violence story grips nation and actor at the centre of it, Shelley King, talks about the power of Yasmeen’s story…
One of the country’s best-loved soaps has tackled the issue of domestic violence head-on over a storyline that has been…
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5 June
ACV Lockdown Listings – curtain raisers for JLF at the British Library, ‘The Forgotten Kingdoms of India’; Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Choked’; Great British Black and Other experiences in ‘The Uncertain Kingdom’; and Tan France…
This is the time to delve far and wide, and explore new worlds… Literature It was one of the highlights…
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4 June
Cannes 2020: The Official Selections – Steve McQueen and interesting British choices, while India draws a blank despite more recent success…
While the May film festival was scrapped, these films will all be able to carry the Cannes insignia… IT WASN’T…
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3 June
Cannes 2020: Steve McQueen dedicates selections to George Floyd and Black Lives Matter
Just over an hour ago it was announced… BRITISH black director Steve McQueen has dedicated two of his films given…
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