A 4th collaboration between German filmmaker Tom Tykwer's One Fine Day Films, and Nairobi (Kenya)-based Ginger Ink, has begun production in Nairobi. S&A has covered every film that's been developed under the One Fine Day Films/Ginger Ink banners - Soul Boy, from director Hawa Essuman, Nairobi Half Life, from director David Tosh Gitonga, and most recently, Something Necessary, from another Kenyan filmmaker in Judy Kibinge. After launching a casting call for actors early last month, the production companies are currently shooting their next feature, which is titled Veve, and is written by Natasha Likimani, and is being...

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On Monday, two Department of Homeland Security unions comprising of 20,000 individuals from the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council (NICEC) and the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council (NCISC) publicly released a statement indicating their opposition to the Senate immigration bill. This letter by Chris Crane, who heads the Homeland Secretary union that represents [...]

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Over ten percent of all doctors and nurses on the government's Medicare and Medicaid blacklist end up on it because they defaulted on government-backed student loans. Medical workers on the blacklist are barred from treating Medicare and Medicaid patients or receiving federal reimbursements for a predesignated time period. According to a Modern Healthcare analysis of [...]

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In the wake of calls from several Latin American leaders to end the failed war on drugs, a new report by an international alliance of major Western Hemisphere nations flags the potential benefits of decriminalization and/or legalization. Although the 200-page Organization of American States report shies away from drawing conclusions, it definitively states that "a [...]

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Research has previously demonstrated that ballot initiatives to ban same-sex marriage create psychological stress for the gay community, and new analysis from a massive National Institutes of Health study has confirmed the same effect. Around 2004, NIH began conducting interviews for a massive mental health survey, then followed up with the same participants a year [...]

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Minister Jeff Radebe on Sunday blamed "name-dropping" for the Gupta corruption scandal and said the government wanted name-dropping to be classified as a form of gross misconduct - presumably for members of the civil service. But for Radebe to blame officials for a culture of name-dropping and to rail against such a culture, is a [...]

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It'll close the 66th Festival Canne Film Festival this week, where it's making its World Premiere. Here's your first look at Zulu, a film that we've been tracking for about a year now, since it was first announced, starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom in a Cape Town, South Africa-set crime drama, which is based on French author Caryl Férey's award winning novel of the same name. The film is directed by French helmer Jérôme Salle - his first film in English. Recapping... Set against the backdrop of post-apartheid South Africa, Whitaker and Bloom play two South African police officers on opposing sides of...

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As the farm bill approved by the Agriculture Committee last week reaches the Senate floor Monday afternoon, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) will be a few hours into an experiment: eating for a week on the meager food budget afford by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Murphy announced on Twitter that he would take the [...]

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Kanye West's debuted a new song, "New Slaves," for a mass audience on Saturday Night Live this weekend, and as an art project last Friday, projecting a video for the song on buildings in London, Chicago, New York, and Sydney. Among those locations was the Prada store Fifth Avenue: It's a fitting choice of venue, [...]

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by Brad Johnson, campaign manager of Forecast the Facts In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, New York City's flagship public television station, WNET, has dropped the richest man in New York, carbon pollution billionaire David Koch, from its board of trustees. Days before the monthly board meeting on May 16, Koch's name was removed from [...]

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