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Upcoming: Screening Of ‘A Small Act’
In honour of Human Rights Day 2011, the Human Rights Commission is collaborating with the Chewstick Foundation to share an uplifting tale about the power we each have to change our world and the lives of others for the better one small act at a time. “A Small Act” will screen at 6:30pm on Thursday December 8, 2011 at the Chewstick, located... Read more of this article
Actor’s Nightmare Before Christmas
It’s a case of the nightmare before Christmas for Bermuda actor Daren A. Herbert when his police detective character must help to unravel a fiendish Yuletide kidnapping plot devised by Mary Higgins Clark, America’s bestselling Queen of Suspense. Mr. Herbert plays New Jersey detective Vince Lugano in “Deck The Halls” —... Read more of this article
Maya Angelou Kwanzaa Documentary
Kwanzaa is not an African-American replacement for Christmas — it is a cultural celebration rather than a religious holiday. And Bermudians who want to learn more about the annual observance now have an opportunity to do so when Citizens For Uprooting Racism in Bermuda [CURB] and Chewstick screen the groundbreaking film “Black Candle”... Read more of this article
Chewstick: New Ricki Lake Childbirth Film
As part of Chewstick’s BlockDocs movie nights, the Doulas of Bermuda are proud to present a screening of “Down on The Farm: Conversations with Legendary Midwife Ina May Gaskin.” The film will be screened on Thursday [Dec. 1] at 6.30pm at Chewstick’s Neo-Griot Lounge & Cafe’ on the corner of Court and Elliot Streets This documentary... Read more of this article
Upcoming: BIFF To Screen ‘Tyrannosaur’
BIFF announced that it will be screening this month’s BIFFlix film, Tyrannosaur, twice this Sunday [Nov.27] in response to demand. Tyrannosaur won both Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Jury Prize for Breakout Performances and the World Cinema Directing Awards. Just last month, it also picked up seven nominations for The Moet British Independent... Read more of this article
Island Filmmaker Focuses On Culture Clash
Bermuda filmmaker Bayard Outerbridge — the island’s first ever Producing Fellow at the prestigious American Film Institute — hopes to soon bring his thesis project to the screen: a movie about the seemingly unending culture of conflict between Israelis and the Palestinians. Filmmaking has been a dream job for Mr. Outerbridge [pictured]... Read more of this article
Bermuda Weekend Film Series Screenings
A documentary film about a baby Orca that makes human friends, and a humorous and charming award-winning French film, are the featured films at the Weekend Film Series on Sunday [Nov. 20]. The monthly event is held in the Tradewinds Auditorium at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute [BUEI]. “The Whale” will screen at 3 p.m. while... Read more of this article
New Teddy Tucker Book’s A ‘Treasure’ Trove!
Diver Teddy Tucker is renowned around the world for his treasure-hunting adventures while Bermudians have long considered him a national treasure. As “Jaws” author Peter Benchley once said, Teddy Tucker’s legendary undersea exploits helped bring Bermuda to the attention of the world — and helped to bring the world to Bermuda. Now... Read more of this article
Second Screening For “The Interrupters”
A second screening has been added for “The Interrupters”, an award-winning film about the crime prevention programme, CeaseFire Chicago. The film will screen on Saturday [Nov. 5] at 6 p.m. in the Tradewinds Auditorium of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. It screened to a sold-out audience at the Bermuda Documentary Film Festival... Read more of this article
Bermuda Debunks Film’s Conspiracy Theory
The historical conspiracy theory offered up in a Hollywood blockbuster opening today [Oct.28] — namely, that William Shakespeare’s plays were actually written by the Earl of Oxford — can be disproved by one stubborn fact: the 1609 “Sea Venture” wreck in Bermuda. Director Roland Emmerich’s “Anonymous” is... Read more of this article
London Film Series Features Earl Cameron
Veteran Bermudian actor Earl Cameron is appearing at a series of film screenings in London next month to discuss how the decline and fall of the British Empire was portrayed in UK cinema during the 1950s and ’60s. The British Film Institute [BFI} and political magazine “New Statesman” are partnering to present the “End of Empire”... Read more of this article
Minister Meets With CeaseFire Documentarian
Minister of National Security Wayne Perinchief this weekend met with Zak Piper, Co-Producer of the acclaimed documentary, The Interrupters, and Ricardo “Cobe” Williams, a “violence interrupter” working for CeaseFire. A statement issued by Government said, “CeaseFire launched in West Garfield Park, one of the most violent communities... Read more of this article
