Elle Haywood
@ellekit.bsky.social
sea swimmer | film curator & talent coordinator for festivals and events | Londoner in Toronto ✨
The films in the Hot Docs Special Presentations program have been announced! @hotdocs.bsky.social
Featuring high-profile subjects, award-winning films and filmmakers, and masterful perspectives on current events and pressing issues
Read all about these wonderful docs: hotdocs.ca/festivals/ho...
Featuring high-profile subjects, award-winning films and filmmakers, and masterful perspectives on current events and pressing issues
Read all about these wonderful docs: hotdocs.ca/festivals/ho...
March 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The films in the Hot Docs Special Presentations program have been announced! @hotdocs.bsky.social
Featuring high-profile subjects, award-winning films and filmmakers, and masterful perspectives on current events and pressing issues
Read all about these wonderful docs: hotdocs.ca/festivals/ho...
Featuring high-profile subjects, award-winning films and filmmakers, and masterful perspectives on current events and pressing issues
Read all about these wonderful docs: hotdocs.ca/festivals/ho...
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It's a whole loada Zilbalodis!
📽️ New screening! 📽️
To celebrate FLOW's historic Oscar win, we're saluting @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social and tracing his amazing filmmaking journey with a double bill of Gints's two features, AWAY and FLOW, plus two early shorts, and a remote Q&A with the man himself!
🗓️ Sat 15th, Curzon Soho
To celebrate FLOW's historic Oscar win, we're saluting @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social and tracing his amazing filmmaking journey with a double bill of Gints's two features, AWAY and FLOW, plus two early shorts, and a remote Q&A with the man himself!
🗓️ Sat 15th, Curzon Soho
March 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
It's a whole loada Zilbalodis!
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to the surprise of absolutely no one, i wrote a short history of cats in movies for curzon to celebrate the upcoming release of flow!!! www.curzon.com/journal/a-sh...
A Short History of Cats in Film
While dogs might have long held the crown as man’s best friend, cats are particularly beloved by filmmakers, from Agnés Varda to Stanley Kubrick; here's our guide through a short history of cats in fi...
www.curzon.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
to the surprise of absolutely no one, i wrote a short history of cats in movies for curzon to celebrate the upcoming release of flow!!! www.curzon.com/journal/a-sh...
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I know we all hate M*ta with the fire of a thousand suns (with good reason), but as a broke-ass artist I need to extend my reach as much as I can. If you’re still on insta and you’d like to follow me work, you can find me at:
brianna_ashby_illustration
🖤
brianna_ashby_illustration
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February 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I know we all hate M*ta with the fire of a thousand suns (with good reason), but as a broke-ass artist I need to extend my reach as much as I can. If you’re still on insta and you’d like to follow me work, you can find me at:
brianna_ashby_illustration
🖤
brianna_ashby_illustration
🖤
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The Prince Charles Cinema is the best cinema IN THE WORLD. A true indie with the greatest audience. Bringing movies new and old to the big screen. Regularly showing films on 35mm and 70mm. Please sign this petition to protect the @princecharlescinema.com ❤️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The Prince Charles Cinema is the best cinema IN THE WORLD. A true indie with the greatest audience. Bringing movies new and old to the big screen. Regularly showing films on 35mm and 70mm. Please sign this petition to protect the @princecharlescinema.com ❤️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Please sign & share to save our beloved PCC 🤍
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Please sign & share to save our beloved PCC 🤍
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#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
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Now on the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank: a TV broadcast of David Lynch's Guardian Lecture, recorded at the NFT in 1984.
January 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Now on the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank: a TV broadcast of David Lynch's Guardian Lecture, recorded at the NFT in 1984.
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Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
January 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
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Fun with colour from some weekend party snapshots 💞
January 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Fun with colour from some weekend party snapshots 💞
A chilly start to the year in Canada, making the most of this beautiful, crisp weather ❄️
January 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A chilly start to the year in Canada, making the most of this beautiful, crisp weather ❄️
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Feel like supporting independent media & helping keep the lights on at a site devoted to movies, words, and art? The very best way to support BW/DR is to subscribe to the site!
We’re still charging what we did 8 years ago ($5/month or $25/year) so it’s a pretty sweet deal :)
We’re still charging what we did 8 years ago ($5/month or $25/year) so it’s a pretty sweet deal :)
- Bright Wall/Dark Room
Subscribe: You can sign up for a monthly ($5) or annual ($25) subscription to Bright Wall/Dark Room by clicking here. Subscriptions allow you full and ongoing access to the site, including our entire ...
brightwalldarkroom.com
January 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Feel like supporting independent media & helping keep the lights on at a site devoted to movies, words, and art? The very best way to support BW/DR is to subscribe to the site!
We’re still charging what we did 8 years ago ($5/month or $25/year) so it’s a pretty sweet deal :)
We’re still charging what we did 8 years ago ($5/month or $25/year) so it’s a pretty sweet deal :)
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She should win the Bafta Rising Star
January 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
She should win the Bafta Rising Star
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Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.
January 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.
Mulled wine & All That Heaven Allows 🤍
December 23, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Mulled wine & All That Heaven Allows 🤍
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“I told [my mother] I’m not scared, that she should let me fight. Because I have a son & he'll need the forest”
Paulo Paulino Guajajara was the 6th Guardian killed by loggers in the Arariboia forest in Brazil.
Help get justice: svlint.org/Guardians
www.commondreams.org/opinion/paulo-guajajarajus
Paulo Paulino Guajajara was the 6th Guardian killed by loggers in the Arariboia forest in Brazil.
Help get justice: svlint.org/Guardians
www.commondreams.org/opinion/paulo-guajajarajus
The Guardians of the Amazon need your help!
The Amazon Guardians are fighting for the lands and lives - and protecting the lungs of the Earth. Stand with the Amazon Guardians - for tribes, for nature, for all humanity.
svlint.org
November 4, 2024 at 6:00 PM
“I told [my mother] I’m not scared, that she should let me fight. Because I have a son & he'll need the forest”
Paulo Paulino Guajajara was the 6th Guardian killed by loggers in the Arariboia forest in Brazil.
Help get justice: svlint.org/Guardians
www.commondreams.org/opinion/paulo-guajajarajus
Paulo Paulino Guajajara was the 6th Guardian killed by loggers in the Arariboia forest in Brazil.
Help get justice: svlint.org/Guardians
www.commondreams.org/opinion/paulo-guajajarajus
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New review dropping on my newsletter tomorrow of the film “Flow”, which I really loved. I discuss climate disasters, what we owe this planet/our fellow living beings, and how the sometimes prickly nature of community is the only way forward for survival. This movie made me cry y’all.
December 18, 2024 at 1:59 PM
New review dropping on my newsletter tomorrow of the film “Flow”, which I really loved. I discuss climate disasters, what we owe this planet/our fellow living beings, and how the sometimes prickly nature of community is the only way forward for survival. This movie made me cry y’all.
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And thus, ChatGPT should be categorically banned from all spaces in which plagiarism is against the rules, especially academia and journalism.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 6:10 PM
And thus, ChatGPT should be categorically banned from all spaces in which plagiarism is against the rules, especially academia and journalism.
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FYI: Little White Lies is entirely anti-AI, and we will never allow our writers' and illustrators' work to be used to train AI models. This is completely against what journalism and art should be and should stand for and it's disheartening to see other publications being taken down this road.
December 5, 2024 at 10:51 AM
FYI: Little White Lies is entirely anti-AI, and we will never allow our writers' and illustrators' work to be used to train AI models. This is completely against what journalism and art should be and should stand for and it's disheartening to see other publications being taken down this road.
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"I don't like the idea of 'understanding' a film. I don't believe rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn't. If you are moved by it, you don't need it explained to you."
- Federico Fellini
- Federico Fellini
a man and a woman are dancing together in a black and white photo
ALT: a man and a woman are dancing together in a black and white photo
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:36 AM
"I don't like the idea of 'understanding' a film. I don't believe rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn't. If you are moved by it, you don't need it explained to you."
- Federico Fellini
- Federico Fellini
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Lovely event with the Youth Committee of Friends of Cymru Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia & Thalassaemia CIC who have put together a panel to talk about The Wild Robot and how films like this can help us deal with complex themes of family and dealing with emotional difficulties.
November 30, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Lovely event with the Youth Committee of Friends of Cymru Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia & Thalassaemia CIC who have put together a panel to talk about The Wild Robot and how films like this can help us deal with complex themes of family and dealing with emotional difficulties.
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THIS
Bit of a reverse Black Friday tip. Go buy a book from an independent bookshop. While the richest companies in the world have another bonanza, put a smile on the face of a struggling writer and bookseller. Thank you x
November 29, 2024 at 3:39 AM
THIS
Lava caving in Iceland seven years ago today 🗻
November 27, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Lava caving in Iceland seven years ago today 🗻
If anyone is wondering how living in Toronto is going, I’m running late to work as I just watched a giant raccoon politely make himself at home in our basement 🦝 Nice to have a new neighbour, I suppose
November 26, 2024 at 3:50 PM
If anyone is wondering how living in Toronto is going, I’m running late to work as I just watched a giant raccoon politely make himself at home in our basement 🦝 Nice to have a new neighbour, I suppose