By Jordan Moreau
11.05.2020 - 18:06 / variety.com
By Shalini Dore
Features News Editor
A Seattle fund aiming to fill a gap in financing for South Asian filmmakers is launching today. The Tasveer Film Fund will bestow $5,000, in a first for that community, to South Asian shorts filmmakers to tell their stories, according to the organizers.
Rita Meher, executive director of Tasveer South Asian Film Festival, and Pulkit Dutta, artistic director, said they had been discussing such a fund before the coronavirus crisis began.
“After a lot of
By Jordan Moreau
Hollywood stars are taking a stand. On Monday night, Minnesota resident George Floyd, an African-American man, died at the age of 46 after a white police officer pinned his knee against Floyd's neck, while he struggled for air and begged for his life.
There were a lot of bummed-out people on Wednesday (May 28) when the historic SpaceX launch at Cape Canaveral was scrubbed at the last minute due to uncooperative weather. The capsule that was slated to take off from its Florida launch pad carrying two NASA astronauts would have been the first crewed space flight to launch from U.S. soil in nearly a decade since the mothballing of the space shuttle fleet in 2011. Spaceheads across the country
By Brian Steinberg
Even for those of us born much to0 late to step into the club, the name Studio 54 conjures images of late nights, packed dancefloors, impossibly glamorous people and glorious, glorious disco.
Shad Gaspard has been found dead after he went missing following a swim at Venice Beach in California on Sunday. He was 39.
Shad Gaspard has been found dead after he went missing following a swim at Venice Beach in California on Sunday. He was 39.
By Mark Duplass
Former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) pro Shad Gaspard‘s body was found washed up on Venice Beach on Wednesday morning after he was swept out to sea in Southern California last weekend while swimming with his young son.
Former World Wrestling Entertainment pro Shad Gaspard was still missing Tuesday after he was swept out to sea in Southern California last weekend while swimming with his young son.
Former WWE superstar Shad Gaspard has gone missing near Venice Beach, California. The wrestler was visiting the beach with his son and wife Siliana. He was one of the swimmers who were pulled into a rip current at the beach. The 39-year-old was the only one who went under. According to TMZ, as the lifeguards rushed to rescue the wrestler, he requested them to help his son first. While they successfully saved his son, a large wave crashed onto Gaspard.
Wrestler Shad Gaspard has gone missing following a swim at Venice Beach in California.
Shad Gaspard, well known as being a former WWE star, has gone missing on Sunday (May 17) after going for a swim in Venice Beach, California with his 10-year-old son.
Lynn Shelton, a director known for her recent work on "Little Fires Everywhere," has died at the age of 54. In a statement obtained by Fox News, it was revealed that Shelton passed on Friday due to "a previously unidentified blood disorder." "Lynn Shelton was born August 27th, 1965 in Oberlin, Ohio and she grew up in Seattle.
NFL player Quinton Dunbar is in big trouble with the law. The 27-year-old cornerback has only been a Seattle Seahawk for six weeks following a March 24 trade from the Washington Redskins. Now he’s wanted in connection with an armed robbery in South Florida. Miramar, FL Police issued an arrest warrant for Quinton and New York Giants rookie Deandre Baker for an incident that allegedly went down at a house party on May 13.