With the pandemic still very much a daily reality and communities around the world struggling in unprecedented fashion, Greenwich International Film Festival has announced that it will make a large scale impact on the community and bring about much needed positive news during these extraordinary times. GIFF will award one or more charity partners a significant financial grant (up to $100,000) to be used toward the benefit of an underserved portion of the population within the broad community of Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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Tony Award nominated Broadway actor Nick Cordero passed away on July 5, 2020 from complications of COVID-19 but not before putting up a heroic fight for his life with the loving and determined support of his amazing wife Amanda Kloots who chronicled his ups and downs fighting the disease for over three months on Instagram. Tragically, they lost the battle. A beautiful life cut short by a terrible disease still terrorizing our world. Nick not only leaves behind his wife but also his son Elvis who just turned 1 in June.
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When I learned that the African Burial Ground had been discovered in New York City, I began to follow and research the story. In October 1991, the excavation crew for a new $275 million federal building on lower Broadway unearthed 419 human skeletons, the remains of a small fraction of the slaves who had built much of the city, including the wall that once defined Wall Street. In the 17th- and 18th-centuries, that site had been part of a cemetery where the bodies of more than 15,000 black people rested.
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Dr. Bettye Kearse, the author of The Other Madisons is a retired pediatrician who recently published her book The Other Madisons, which is a tale that Bettye Kearse was literally born to tell. As she journeys in search of her deepest, most painful family roots, she unfurls an intensely personal tale that is also a quintessentially American story. Confronting colonialism and cruelty, power and its abuse, the silencing of slaves and the fraught complexity of intertwined nations and individual lives, The Other Madisons crafts a new kind of record, one that illuminates the power of a woman taking charge of her own truth.
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The Greenwich International Film Festival (GIFF) will be a Virtual Festival in 2020, for obvious reasons. Watch the inspiring and exciting films selected by the founders from May 1 to May 3, 2020 from the comfort of your home while staying safe.
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During these challenging times when all borders are closed and international travel is impossible, let me take you on a virtual journey to the beautiful Austrian town of Bregenz where every summer an amazing opera festival takes place on a floating stage known as the Bregenzer Festspiele.
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We’ve come a long way, ladies but there’s still room for improvement. The future is female!
This year’s theme for International Women's Day is, I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women's Rights. The theme is in alignment with UN Women's new multigenerational campaign, Generation Equality.
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