Y-Films and India’s first transgender pop band, the 6 Pack Band, created history late Monday night by winning the coveted Cannes Grand Prix Glass Lion at the Cannes Lions Festival. The unique innovation, a first of its kind ever for an Indian campaign, in collaboration with Mindshare Mumbai and Brooke Bond Red Label, won the award for its extraordinary campaign around gender rights and outreach.
This particular category of the Cannes Lions Festival awards creative work that celebrates culture-shifting creativity and addresses and impacts gender inequality, imbalance or injustice. 30 odd brands have competed from across the world, including four from India, but the unique 6 Pack Band initiative that highlights the hidden talent of the ‘Hijra’ (transgender) community of India, was chosen as the winner of the highest Cannes Lion award for the incredible impact it has had in battling prejudice and discrimination against the transgender community. With a population of...
This particular category of the Cannes Lions Festival awards creative work that celebrates culture-shifting creativity and addresses and impacts gender inequality, imbalance or injustice. 30 odd brands have competed from across the world, including four from India, but the unique 6 Pack Band initiative that highlights the hidden talent of the ‘Hijra’ (transgender) community of India, was chosen as the winner of the highest Cannes Lion award for the incredible impact it has had in battling prejudice and discrimination against the transgender community. With a population of...
- 6/24/2016
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Y-Films and India’s first transgender pop band, the 6 Pack Band, created history late Monday night by winning the coveted Cannes Grand Prix Glass Lion at the Cannes Lions Festival. The unique innovation, a first of its kind ever for an Indian campaign, in collaboration with Mindshare Mumbai and Brooke Bond Red Label, won the award for its extraordinary campaign around gender rights and outreach.
This particular category of the Cannes Lions Festival awards creative work that celebrates culture-shifting creativity and addresses and impacts gender inequality, imbalance or injustice. 30 odd brands have competed from across the world, including four from India, but the unique 6 Pack Band initiative that highlights the hidden talent of the ‘Hijra’ (transgender) community of India, was chosen as the winner of the highest Cannes Lion award for the incredible impact it has had in battling prejudice and discrimination against the transgender community. With a population of...
This particular category of the Cannes Lions Festival awards creative work that celebrates culture-shifting creativity and addresses and impacts gender inequality, imbalance or injustice. 30 odd brands have competed from across the world, including four from India, but the unique 6 Pack Band initiative that highlights the hidden talent of the ‘Hijra’ (transgender) community of India, was chosen as the winner of the highest Cannes Lion award for the incredible impact it has had in battling prejudice and discrimination against the transgender community. With a population of...
- 6/24/2016
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
"Uh, you tell me, man. You make all this shit up." Indeed. To drum up some attention for their coverage of Star Wars, Vanity Fair made a video featuring The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams being asked questions about The Force Awakens from a bevy of celebrities. He takes their questions from an iPad, featuring people like Jared Leto, Lena Dunham, Katie Couric, T.J. Miller, Lee Daniels, Shane Smith, and even George Lucas, asking him all kinds of things he can't really talk about yet. He doesn't even answer most of their questions, of course, but tries his best one-liners with some. Oh, J.J. This is fun, and honestly, it's the most we'll get out of J.J. Abrams on pretty much anything until The Force Awakens finally opens. Watch the final The Force Awakens trailer here, stay tuned for more Star Wars. What would you ask J.J.? Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens...
- 10/29/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Read More: 8 Great Documentary Discoveries from Hot Docs 2015 Hot Docs has announced that Shane Smith will be the organization's new director of programming, starting on October 5. "Shane has built a well-earned reputation as a champion of original and visionary filmmakers, and his innovative programming reflects his own passion to inspire, inform and entertain filmgoers," said executive director Brett Hendrie. "His outstanding eye for great docs will help ensure that Hot Docs continues to bring the most outspoken and outstanding films to the festival every year. I can’t wait for our audiences to meet him." Smith previously worked at the Toronto International Film Festival as the director of special projects, where he oversaw initiatives and events like the Tiff Bell Lightbox, Tiff in the Park, Nuit Blanche, the digiPlaySpace traveling exhibition and Short Cuts programming for Tiff. Beforehand, he was the director of public programs at Tiff. As director...
- 8/19/2015
- by Kaeli Van Cott
- Indiewire
New work from Claire Denis takes its place in the inaugural Short Cuts International line-up at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14).Scroll down for full list
A total of 36 shorts from filmmakers representing 29 countries will screen in five curated programmes.
“Some of the best filmmaking in the industry is happening in the short form and the introduction of this programme allows the festival to identify talented filmmakers and connect them to the rest of the world as well as the highly engaged audience present here in Toronto,” said Tiff director of special projects Shane Smith.
“From politically and socially provocative narratives, to aesthetically compelling animation and profoundly moving documentaries, the works in Short Cuts International are vigorous and vital films showcasing unique, yet universal, stories about the human condition.”
Short Cuts International is programmed by Smith; Kathleen McInnis, Short Cuts International programmer; and Magali Simard, Short Cuts programmer and Tiff manager Of film programmes.
The...
A total of 36 shorts from filmmakers representing 29 countries will screen in five curated programmes.
“Some of the best filmmaking in the industry is happening in the short form and the introduction of this programme allows the festival to identify talented filmmakers and connect them to the rest of the world as well as the highly engaged audience present here in Toronto,” said Tiff director of special projects Shane Smith.
“From politically and socially provocative narratives, to aesthetically compelling animation and profoundly moving documentaries, the works in Short Cuts International are vigorous and vital films showcasing unique, yet universal, stories about the human condition.”
Short Cuts International is programmed by Smith; Kathleen McInnis, Short Cuts International programmer; and Magali Simard, Short Cuts programmer and Tiff manager Of film programmes.
The...
- 8/12/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto International Film Festival is starting a new programme for international shorts, Shorts Cuts International.
The new spotlight, in five curated programmes, will kick off at Tiff in September 2014, and then will be continued as a series of monthly screenings year round at Bell Lightbox.
Shane Smith, Tiff’s Director of Special Projects, will oversee Short Cuts International and programmers will be announced in the coming months.
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of Tiff, said: “With new technologies and a constant influx of new talent, short filmmaking is flourishing. As Tiff expands its global reach, we want to bring some of the world’s finest short films to the audience, industry and media that gather in Toronto every year.”
Selected international shorts will screen in five curated programmes this September. The Festival’s Short Cuts International screenings will kick off a new monthly shorts programme that will run year-round at Tiff Bell Lightbox.
Festival submissions...
The new spotlight, in five curated programmes, will kick off at Tiff in September 2014, and then will be continued as a series of monthly screenings year round at Bell Lightbox.
Shane Smith, Tiff’s Director of Special Projects, will oversee Short Cuts International and programmers will be announced in the coming months.
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of Tiff, said: “With new technologies and a constant influx of new talent, short filmmaking is flourishing. As Tiff expands its global reach, we want to bring some of the world’s finest short films to the audience, industry and media that gather in Toronto every year.”
Selected international shorts will screen in five curated programmes this September. The Festival’s Short Cuts International screenings will kick off a new monthly shorts programme that will run year-round at Tiff Bell Lightbox.
Festival submissions...
- 2/11/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
[Press Release] Berlin — Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, today announced Short Cuts International, a programme of international short films that will premiere at the 2014 Festival. “With new technologies and a constant influx of new talent, short filmmaking is flourishing,” said Bailey. “As Tiff expands its global reach, we want to bring some of the world's finest short films to the audience, industry and media that gather in Toronto every year.” Selected international shorts will screen in five curated programmes this September. The Festival’s Short Cuts International screenings will kick off a new monthly shorts programme that will run year-round at Tiff Bell Lightbox. Shane Smith, Tiff’s Director of Special Projects, will oversee Short...
- 2/10/2014
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, today announced Short Cuts International, a programme of international short films that will premiere at the 2014 Festival.
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) earlier only accepted Canadian short films.
“With new technologies and a constant influx of new talent, short filmmaking is flourishing,” said Bailey. “As Tiff expands its global reach, we want to bring some of the world’s finest short films to the audience, industry and media that gather in Toronto every year.”
Selected international shorts will screen in five curated programmes this September. The Festival’s Short Cuts International screenings will kick off a new monthly shorts programme that will run year-round at Tiff Bell Lightbox. Shane Smith, Tiff’s Director of Special Projects, will oversee Short Cuts International. Programmers will be announced in the coming months.
The Festival will begin accepting film submissions for all film programmes on Wednesday,...
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) earlier only accepted Canadian short films.
“With new technologies and a constant influx of new talent, short filmmaking is flourishing,” said Bailey. “As Tiff expands its global reach, we want to bring some of the world’s finest short films to the audience, industry and media that gather in Toronto every year.”
Selected international shorts will screen in five curated programmes this September. The Festival’s Short Cuts International screenings will kick off a new monthly shorts programme that will run year-round at Tiff Bell Lightbox. Shane Smith, Tiff’s Director of Special Projects, will oversee Short Cuts International. Programmers will be announced in the coming months.
The Festival will begin accepting film submissions for all film programmes on Wednesday,...
- 2/10/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Twittersphere lit up with ecstatic responses to Matt Saville.s Australian thriller Felony after its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The plaudits flew for the performances by Joel Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson and Jai Courtney, Edgerton.s smart screenplay and for Saville.s direction.
In the Goalpost Pictures production Edgerton plays a decorated cop who runs a cyclist off the road after drinking with his buddies to celebrate a major gang bust. Wilkinson is a senior cop who is complicit in the cover-up. Courtney is a fresh-faced detective who suspects Edgerton.s character is lying and gradually builds a case against him.
South African writer-director Donovan Marsh tweeted, .Just saw the amazing Australian film Felony with Tom Wilkinson, so sensitive, so beautifully directed.. (Marsh's crime drama iNumber Number premiered at Tiff in the Contemporary World Cinema program).
Shane Smith, Director, Public Programmes for Tiff Bell Lightbox, said: .Felony is an intelligent,...
The plaudits flew for the performances by Joel Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson and Jai Courtney, Edgerton.s smart screenplay and for Saville.s direction.
In the Goalpost Pictures production Edgerton plays a decorated cop who runs a cyclist off the road after drinking with his buddies to celebrate a major gang bust. Wilkinson is a senior cop who is complicit in the cover-up. Courtney is a fresh-faced detective who suspects Edgerton.s character is lying and gradually builds a case against him.
South African writer-director Donovan Marsh tweeted, .Just saw the amazing Australian film Felony with Tom Wilkinson, so sensitive, so beautifully directed.. (Marsh's crime drama iNumber Number premiered at Tiff in the Contemporary World Cinema program).
Shane Smith, Director, Public Programmes for Tiff Bell Lightbox, said: .Felony is an intelligent,...
- 9/12/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Razzie-winning bridal gown aficionado Dennis Rodman isn’t just one of the most colorful characters of the 1990s — apparently, he’s also America’s last hope for a decent diplomatic relationship with North Korea.
I’ll pause to let that sink in.
The retired basketball player is currently in Pyongyang with a group of Harlem Globetrotters and a documentary film crew. The athletes are planning to spend four to five days in the North Korean capital, putting on a few basketball exhibitions and perhaps even meeting North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un — a noted basketball fan who spent hours as...
I’ll pause to let that sink in.
The retired basketball player is currently in Pyongyang with a group of Harlem Globetrotters and a documentary film crew. The athletes are planning to spend four to five days in the North Korean capital, putting on a few basketball exhibitions and perhaps even meeting North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un — a noted basketball fan who spent hours as...
- 2/27/2013
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
The newest venture for hipster tome Vice magazine is a news show on HBO set to launch Friday, April 5th at 11pm, one that will find founder Shane Smith and other correspondents traveling the globe to report on stories like North Korean forced labor camps, Taliban child suicide bombers and Somalian pirates. Never ones to underplay things, Vice has promised the series "will serve as the harbinger of a new age in documentary programming." "What you're going to see on 'Vice' is not sanitized -- it's going to punch people in the face," Smith says in the trailer for the show, below. While Smith and Vice chief creative officer Eddy Moretti didn't exactly charm the critics in person at TCA in January, the footage looks undeniably interesting and ambitious in terms of what's covered.
- 2/18/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
The producers of the new HBO news series "Vice" admit that their journalistic approach shares some similarities with that of the soon-to-be-shuttered Current TV. In fact, they say, Current tried to buy their content before they got their own show. The origins of "Vice" go back to Montreal in 1994, when Shane Smith founded Vice Magazine to look at sex, drugs, music and fashion with jaded, hipster snark. But as Vice expanded online, it began traveling the world, sending untraditional journalists into global hotspots to do sneakers-on-the-ground reports like Smith's journey...
- 1/5/2013
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
HBO will premiere their world news TV series, Vice, this spring. Shane Smith hosts the show and also executive produces with Bill Maher and Eddy Moretti.
Here's the pres release with additional details:
"Vice," News Series Featuring Startling, Groundbreaking Stories From Around The World, Debuts This Spring, Exclusively On HBO
Shane Smith Hosts; Bill Maher, Shane Smith And Eddy Moretti Executive Produce; Fareed Zakaria Is A Consultant
As U.S. troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, the Taliban stoops to an all-time low by recruiting confused, innocent kids as young as six to be suicide bombers.
A kindly South Korean preacher runs an underground railroad to rescue young North Korean women from sex slavery in China.
A hallucinogen is so powerful that it's banned by the U.S. government, but is the key ingredient in a...
Here's the pres release with additional details:
"Vice," News Series Featuring Startling, Groundbreaking Stories From Around The World, Debuts This Spring, Exclusively On HBO
Shane Smith Hosts; Bill Maher, Shane Smith And Eddy Moretti Executive Produce; Fareed Zakaria Is A Consultant
As U.S. troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, the Taliban stoops to an all-time low by recruiting confused, innocent kids as young as six to be suicide bombers.
A kindly South Korean preacher runs an underground railroad to rescue young North Korean women from sex slavery in China.
A hallucinogen is so powerful that it's banned by the U.S. government, but is the key ingredient in a...
- 1/5/2013
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage. HBO isn’t in the habit of doing traditional newsmagazine shows, and its new magazine Vice (premiering April 5) is like no series of its ilk that mainstream TV has ever seen. It’s sort of Rolling Stone-meets-The-bbc-meets-Real Time With Bill Maher. And it’s certainly not coincidental that Maher is an exec producer on the globe-trotting newsmagazine fronted by host Shane Smith. Vice is also the name of the media company that produces the show that practices a New Age-style journalism that Smith called “Immersionism” during an afternoon panel at TCA. “We have local stringers, we dress the part (of the locals), and we try not to be intrusive,” Smith explained. “We also try to be smart about it. We aren’t action junkies. We just try to get a good story. Being able to have smaller crews helps.” Smith...
- 1/5/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Abu Dhabi -- Vice Media, which most recently made waves with Snoop Lion documentary Reincarnated, is looking to expand its film business. For 2013, the company targets more film releases, CEO and co-founder Shane Smith tells The Hollywood Reporter. "One of the things we learned was we were doing all this film marketing for the major studios very successfully," he says. "But why are we pushing these films for studios when we can push out own films? So that's what we are doing." Cover Story: Snoop on Pot, the Music Biz and His Movie 'Reincarnated' Smith says Vice's
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- 10/9/2012
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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