Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship for Women Journalists- Last Date 1st May

Entries invited for the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship for Women Journalists

 

 

 The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is now accepting applications for the 2013/2014 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, designed for a woman journalist working in print, broadcast or digital news media to spend seven months in a tailored program that combines access to MIT’s Center for International Studies and media outlets including The Boston Globe The New York Times.
 

Journalists working in the print, broadcast and Internet media, including freelancers, are eligible to apply.

 

Applicants must have a minimum of three years of experience in journalism.
 

Applications will be accepted until May 01, 2013, and the fellowship will run from September 2013 – March 2014.
 

To apply, visit iwmf.org/2013neuffer

Royals Sintillates Royally

Rajasthan Royals produced a scintillating performance by beating Mumbai Indians in every department of the game and registered comprehensive 87-run victory in the IPL 6 match at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur.

Rajasthan bowlers fired in unison to help Royals restrict Mumbai to modest 92 and continue their winning run at home. James Faulkner was the pick of the bowler with three wickets while Ajit Chandila and Stuart Binny took two wickets apiece.

Earlier in the game Ajinkya Rahane led from the front as he cracked an unbeaten 68 to help Rajasthan Royals set 180-run target for Mumbai Indians. Brad Hodge also played a fine cameo as he remained unbeaten on 27 of 15 with the help of two sixes. The 53-run unbeaten stand by Rahane and Hodge for the fourth wicket powered Royals to 179/3 in 20 overs.

Chasing 180-run target, Mumbai Indians never recovered from their poor start as they lost wickets at regular intervals. Only Dinesh Karthik tried to wage a lone battle, making 30 off 32 balls but it was not good enough to take Mumbai past Royals target.

Royals have made two changes, bringing in Ankeet Chavan in place of S Sreesanth and Dishant Yagnik replaced Sanju Samson. Mumbai, on the other hand, fielded an unchanged squad from their last game.

Angelina Jolie opened a school in Afghanistan funded by her charity

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has opened a school in Afghanistan through her foundation The Education Partnership for Children of Conflict.

Angelina Jolie has reportedly said that the all-girls school she is building in Afghanistan has opened, funded by her eponymous jewellery collection.

The actress who is also a philanthropist said “The school located outside of Kabul educates from 200 to 300 students and are funded by her Jewellery Collection. It was funded by the Style of Jolie jewellery line—a collection of jewellery created by Jolie and Robert Procop, a gem expert, private jeweller and jewellery designer. Jolie told E Online! That the new school will be one of many girls schools that will be built and funded through the proceeds from the jewellery collection.

The high jewellery pieces for the Style of Jolie collection are known for using statement gemstones cut in the shape of a tablet, an exclusive feature. Procop had also earlier told in January that Jolie wanted something with an historical message and spent a great deal of time studying how a tablet is held. Together they designed the shape. All proceeds from the sales are used to build schools for girls in impoverished countries through the Education Partnerships for Children of Conflicts, co-founded by Jolie.

The actress, who is also United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, is known for her charity work. Last year, Jolie was left in tears after visiting a Syrian refugee camp.

60th National Film Awards By Directorate of Film Festivals

The 60th National Film Awards ceremony is an upcoming event during which the Directorate of Film Festivals will present its annual National Film Awards to honor the best films of 2012 in the Indian cinema. The ceremony is scheduled for May 3, 2013. The prestigious 60th National Film Awards for the year 2012 were announced in New Delhi in a joint Press Conference addressed by the Chairpersons of the three juries, Shri Basu Chatterjee for Feature Films, Ms. Aruna Raje for Non-Feature Films and Shri Swapan Mullick for Best Writing on Cinema on Monday (18th March 2013). The top honour in the feature film category goes to Paan Singh Tomar (Hindi) produced by UTV Software communications Ltd. and directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia . In non-feature film category, the top honour Best Film goes to Shepherds of Paradise (Gojri & Urdu) produced and directed by Raja Shabir Khan. In Best Writing on Cinema section, the book Silent Cinema in India – A Pictorial Journey (English) written by B.D. Garga and published by Harper Collins Publisher India has bagged the top honour, whereas Shri P.S. Radhakrishnan has been declared the Best film Critic.

Feature Film category

In the Feature Film category a total of 38 films from 14 languages have been selected for the 60th National Awards in 14 languages.

Best feature film - Paan Singh Tomar (Hindi) , directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia and produced by UTV Software communications Ltd.

Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director - Chittagong (Hindi) and 101 Chodiyangal (Malayalam)

Nargis Dutt Award for Best Film On National Integration- Thanichalla Njan (Malayalam)- Directed by Babu Thiruvalla and Produced by Cherian Philippose.

Best Popular Film- Vicky Donor (Hindi) and Ustad Hotel (Malayalam)

Best Animation Film - Delhi Safari- Directed By Nikhil Advani

Best Film on Social Issues- Spirit

Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservatio- Black Forest

Best Supporting Actor- Annu Kapoor for Vicky Donor (Hindi)

Best Supporting Actress- Dolly Ahluwalia for Vicky Donor (Hindi)

Best Male Playback Singer- Shankar Mahadevan for Bolo Na of Chittagong (Hindi)

Best Female Playback Singer- Arati AnkalikarTikekar for Pale Na Moondon of Samhita (Marathi)

Best Cinematography- Sudheer Palsane and Laboratory Processing: Prasad Studios for KO: YAD

Best Screenplay (Original)- Sujoy Ghosh for Kahaani

Best Screenplay (Adapted)-Bhavesh Mandalia and Umesh Shukla for OMG - Oh My God

Best Director - Shivaji Lotan Patil for Dhag (Marathi)

Best Actor award - Irrfaan  for title in Paan Singh Tomar and Vikram Gokhale for Anumati (Marathi)

Best Actress - Usha Jadhav for Dhag (Marathi)

Special Jury award - Rituparno Ghosh and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

The Best Child Artist - Virendra Pratap for Dekh Indian Circus (Hindi) and Minon for 101 Chodiyangal (Malayalam).

 Non-Feature Film category

Best Non-Feature Film- Shepherds of Paradise (Gojri & Urdu) produced and directed by Raja Shabir Khan

Best Director - Vikrant Pawar  for the film Kaatal (Marathi).

Best Debut Film of a Director:

Lipika Singh Darai for the film Eka Gachha Eka Manisa Eka Samudra (Odia),

Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia for the film I Am Micro (English)

Special Jury Award - Vasudah Joshi for Cancer Katha (English)

Best Environmental film - Timbaktu (English)

Best Promotional film- Dreaming Taj Mahal ( Hindi & Urdu)

Best Book on Cinema -Silent Cinema in India- A Pictorial Journey

Author- B D Garga

Publisher- Harper Collins Publishers India

Best Film Critic -P S Radhakrishnan

Special Mention-Piyush Roy

A File list is attached to this post for more details of the award.

Housefull 2 : second biggest weekend collector of 2012

Sajid Khan's multi-starrer Housefull 2 has garnered Rs. 42 crore in its opening weekend. . Akshay Kumar is back with a bang.  It's Akshay Kumar's biggest opener ever. The first 3 day collections of the film were Rs. 14 crore, Rs. 13 crore and Rs. 15 crore, taking its three-day total to Rs. 42 crore. Talking in terms of box-office records, Housefull 2 has the second best opening day collections of 2012, after Agneepath (Rs. 25 crore). The film is going strong in overseas also. Thus proving that film’s story has nothing to do with other events (IPL)  happening in country as well as cast’s form at box office. Though the business on Friday and Saturday was affected due to the cricket matches, while the business in North and South circuits got affected due to the strong opposition posed by a Punjabi and Telugu film, respectively. Yet, a fabulous start of Rs. 40 cr + weekend has ensured the film a prime place in the biggest openers' listing.

On this expected success of his film Sajid Khan was found saying “I saw the movie last night and I promise you, I am not saying this because I directed this film, I am saying it out of sheer love for cinema as an audience, this film is a blockbuster and I am so proud that I have directed it,”

Shootout At Wadala- The New Story of Dawood Ibrahim!!!!

Shootout At Wadala, John Abraham plays gangster Manohar Arjuna Surve, better known as Manya. Tusshar plays his trusted lieutenant Sheikh Munir from the Dharavi slums.

The film explains how they met in jail and once out, they took on Dawood Ibrahim, thus cementing their place in the Mumbai underworld and then they carried off several successful heists till Manya was gunned down by the police.

The team explains that film is a prequel and not a sequel to Sanjay’s earlier film, Shootout At Lokhandwala (2007). “It revolves around the first ever police encounter in Mumbai that took place in 1982 — almost a decade before the Lokhandwala shootout,”  explains one of the team member.

“Once Upon A Time in Mumbai (2010)” revolved around the Haji Mastan and Dawood Ibrahim rivalry. Now, the upcoming “Shootout At Wadala” and the sequel to Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai will also have references to Dawood.It seems Dawood is becoming soft target and favorite character of Indian Film Directors!!!! Congratulations to Dawood G;)

The new hot and sizzling Laila ----The item of Bollywood

After doing item numbers in films like Bin Bulaye Baraati (Shalu), Thank You (Razia) and Guru (Champa), Mallika Sherawat is back as an item girl in Tezz, this time as Laila.

The sexy siren flaunts her curves in a sleazy copper outfit. The song sung by Sunidhi Chauhan has been choreographed by Ganesh Acharya. Music is composed by duo Sajid-Wajid.The song got into trouble when Shiv Sainiks stormed the sets of the film for allowing foreign actors in it.

Priyadarshan's Tezz features Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor, Boman Irani and Kangna Ranaut. Zayed Khan, Sameera Reddy and Mohanlal are also part of the ensemble cast.