Tuesday 7th February 2012
Film
Wednesday 27th January 2010 12:09
Penan tribe's forest is under threat
Reuters
A Malaysian tribe has claimed that the blockbuster movie Avatar tells the real story of their lives today.
Just like the blue Navi race in Avatar, the Penan tribe’s forest in the Malaysian part of Borneo, is threatened by foreign companies. An estimated 15,485 people live in the Eastern Malaysian Sarawak state.
The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia says: 'An ancient tribe of hunters and gatherers in Borneo’s jungles are being threatened by severe poverty and companies that clear land for logging and oil palm projects."
Wednesday 11th February 2009 11:01
Oscar race is on
The race for this year’s Best Picture is hotting up with only eleven days to go until the film event of the year.
Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button are the two leading candidates for success at this year’s Oscars.
Both films posses a "feel good factor" that has not been seen in a best picture winner since Chicago won in 2002.
The films represent a marked departure from Boyle’s and Fincher’s previous films.
