WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT?

• BOLLYWOOD GOES ON STRIKE

The Indian Hollywood is having difficult times these days as it tries to regain the productivity of its employees who are on strike. Seems like the average employee who works in the industry for 30 hours straight at times is complaining about the non-deliverance of his wages. The studio executives who have not been keeping their promises are paying back by having no work and no workers in their hands.

While the employees say that the strike might go for another six months, we can’t help but wonder whether it is going to be as long as the Writer’s Strike that caused our favorites shows to stop running last year.

To read this article, please visit: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7646404.stm

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WHAT'S NEW ON FILM ANNEX?

• WATCH 8 NEW SHORT DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT 8 WONDERFUL KIDS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM AIDS IN THE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

This week, we’re bringing to you 8 new short documentaries, including honest, powerful, heartbreaking, and personal interviews with the families of 8 kids who are suffering from AIDS in Africa.

AFCA is working with seven local partners in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to help these children of different ages who are HIV positive or who have AIDS. By working in Kampala (Uganda), Nairobi, Elementita, Voi, and Mombasa (Kenya), as well as Bulawayo, (Zimbabwe), the organization also provides medications to parents and guardians to improve the health of caregivers and reduce the chance that the children will be orphaned.

These documentaries will bring you so close to these eight children regardless of the physical distance in between.

To watch the documentaries, visit the Film Annex page of The American Foundation for Children with AIDS and to get more information, please check out: www.filmannex.com/AFCA


WHAT SHOULD I WATCH ON FILM ANNEX?

• THE MOST BEAUTIFUL

This wonderful classic by Akira Kurosawa tells the stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in their tasks, devoted to their work and their country's cause.

To watch the film, go to: www.filmannex.com/movie/film/597/the_most_beautiful

• OFFSIDE

One fence, four fans, and the game of their lives. This is a story about four men and a radio. Offside is the second short film in the trilogy by directors Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv regarding the Middle East conflict. A follow-up to their last short film Strangers, Offside was shot in Israel, during September 2005, at the security zone that separates Israel from the Palestine Authority. The film won the best short film award at the Manhattan International Film Festival 2006.

To watch the film, go to: www.filmannex.com/movie/film/591/offside


• MAXIMA PENA

The winner of several awards, this short film is brilliantly funny. In a regional soccer match, we watch the team’s trainer trying to avoid the relegation of his team, when he should be at his father´s funeral.

To watch the film go to: www.filmannex.com/movie/film/37/maxima-pena

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WHAT ELSE IS PLAYING? WHAT'S GOOD?

• BLINDNESS

Starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, the film evolves around a sudden plague of blindness that devastates a city and a small group of afflicted people who band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine. Although the critics gave it a mere C+, we think the film is worth seeing, considering that it is based on the book by the talented novelist José Saramago and directed by the man behind the Constant Gardener, which (in our opinion) was a solid movie.

*Opened today. Playing everywhere. To search, go to: www.movies.com/blindness/movietimes/82298/


• THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED

Synopsis: “A carefree, pixie-haired kleptomaniac named Eleonore breathlessly traipses around city streets, stealing purses, cars and kisses just for the fun (and thrill) of it in this jazzy ode to reckless youth and the joys of New York. Shot guerrilla-style in grainy, beautiful 16mm, Josh Safdie's jazzy first feature harkens back to the exciting, off-the-cuff school of '60s American independent and French New Wave filmmaking, while adding a charming and magical sensibility all its own.”

*Playing at the IFC Center (New York, NY). For show times and purchasing tickets: www.ifccenter.com/film?filmid=67299


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WHAT EVENTS SHOULD I NOT MISS?

• MIPCOM OPENS OCTOBER 13TH

MIPCOM is the global content event for creating, co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content across all platforms. It provides the key decision-makers in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry with the only market conference and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level.

This year’s MIPCOM opens on October 13th. For more information about MIPCOM and reasons to attend, visit: www.mipcom.com



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