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2010 marks the centenary of 100 years of film being shown in Byron Bay - at the same spot where the BBFF is held - the Byron Community Centre. The festival's Centenary of Cinema celebration will highlight the importance of film appreciation and the role film has played in the region.

BBFF - Your world of film in the heart of Byron Bay.

Friday 5 March - Sunday 14 March

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The day after tragedy in Haiti, students of the country's only film school, Cine Institute, began capturing stories around them. These filmmakers continue to document what this disaster means for the Haitian people and in doing so, they provide a powerful reminder that film is an inherently urgent medium.

 

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A selection of the world’s most compelling graphic novelists and comic artists are to collaborate with experimental youth initiative Ctrl.Alt.Shift, to create a limited edition comic book Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption which aims to highlight corruption as both the cause of poverty and a barrier to overcoming it.

Comprising original work from leading comic artists, satirists and creative figures from around the world including USA, South Africa, India, Sweden, Serbia and the UK, Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption will engage and challenge the issues of social injustice in a bid to politicise a new generation of activists through the medium of popular comic culture.

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Noam ChomskyHistory of US Rule in Latin America: Elections and Resistance to the Coup in Honduras - Professor Noam Chomsky.

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Almost a year ago the inauguration of President Barack Obama was hailed as a turning point in US race relations. The country was said to be entering a new era of post-racial politics, on the path to a future of greater diversity and tolerance. But while crowds flocked to Washington to witness the swearing in, others were refusing to join the party. Racially motivated threats against Obama rose to new heights in the first months of his presidency, with the US seeing nine high-profile race killings in 2009. Meanwhile white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups claim their membership is growing and that visits to their websites are increasing. Filmmakers Rick Rowley and Jacquie Soohen went inside the white nationalist movement to investigate.

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Killing in the Name" is a song by American rap metal band Rage Against the Machine, featured on their 1992 self-titled debut album. Released as the lead single from the album in November 1992, the song reached number 25 on the UK Singles Chart and in 2009 became the official UK Christmas number 1.

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Well, since 1980, through the Sundance Film Festival and the Sundance Institute, Robert Redford has helped independent voices develop their craft—in film, in theater and music—to reach larger and newer audiences.

The Sundance festival takes as its namesake one of Redford’s best-known characters, from the 1969 film

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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Because he's self-effacing, frankly open and thought-provoking, all at the same time. Vik Muniz's explorations into the power of representation and his masterful use of unexpected materials such as chocolate syrup, toy soldiers and paper confetti mean that his resulting images transcend mere gimmickry.

Muniz is often hailed as a master illusionist, but he says he's not interested in fooling people. Rather, he wants his images to show people a measure of their own belief. Muniz has exhibited his playfully provocative work in galleries all over the world. Describing the history of photography as "the history of blindness," his images simply but powerfully remind a viewer of what it means to see, and how our preconceptions can color every experience.

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Zeitgeist, the Movie was officially released online on June 18, 2007 on zeitgeistmovie.com.[4] However, a beta version had already been available on Google video since June 6.[5][original research?] For a time, it reached the top of the chart of "most viewed" videos available, with more than 50 million views in the first three weeks after its release through Google video,[citation needed] and has been recognized as an "Internet sensation".[6] The video has since been translated into 23 languages and has created a YouTube phenomenon with hundreds of independent reedits, video snippets, vlogs and interviews.[