FIAPF’s decision to make A-list status official, with Tokyo among the 17 festivals named, is unlikely to change much about the event, according to the filmmaker leading its competition jury. Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer, the director of “Bad Boy Bubby” and “Ten Canoes,” was asked at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival’s jury press
Under his chosen successor, progress stalled. The economic boom also gave way to recession, and the country’s political scene was rocked by a huge investigation into top-level corruption, known as Operation Car Wash. Lula was among those to get caught up in the scandal. In July 2017, he was convicted of corruption and sentenced to
Four bodies handed over to special forces on a mission to Haiti to recover Salvadoran hostages are “not our men”, El Salvador’s president has said. Nayib Bukele said a nongovernmental organisation delivered the human remains to one of Haiti’s airports claiming they were four El Salvadoran air technicians, but that one of the corpses was
Skydance has announced new leadership for its combined advertising business following the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, according to a memo viewed by Business Insider. Jay Askinasi, Skydance’s chief revenue officer for advertising, outlined the new leadership structure for the “unified Skydance Advertising organization.” Following the completion of the $110 billion merger this month, Skydance’s portfolio
El Salvador’s president has said he has launched a military operation to rescue four air force personnel who have been missing in Haiti since Sunday. Nayib Bukele wrote in a post on X that Wednesday’s attack was “nothing” compared with what would happen if all the hostages – who he said were not combatants –
Billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel said he’s skeptical of the US war with Iran and does not believe the United States should have launched it, putting the major Republican donor at odds with President Donald Trump over one of the administration’s defining foreign policy decisions, POLITICO reported. Thiel’s remarks, delivered on October 12 at a
