Another last minute selection for “Dignity” that is nominated again! I am SO happy!
At the end of march we will se how it goes for it at the Belgian Moving Pictures Film Festival of Kalmthout!
Monthly Archives: March 2017
“Dignity” competing at the Female Filmmakers Audience Awards
Despite the fact that Dignity has already been competing for over one year and a half, it still happens that it is selected for a festival!
This time is the Audience Awards, and if you would like to vote for it, you can scroll down and find it on this page, thank you!
March 8, 2017 – Watch your tongue: that bitch ain’t dirty.
Sitting in the row in front of me a handsome man in his forties. Fingers tattooed with black letters, silver rings on each, bracelets and dark earrings, leather wrist band, clear blue eyes under golden lashes, hair shaved at the sides and a long ponytail of blond and curly hair that almost reaches his butt, short boots, black jeans and a gray jacket with a dark shirt underneath. And a clerical collar. His name is Markus, he is a street priest: his assigned parish is the streets, at night, and his mission is to help the underprivileged and the exploited. Especially prostitutes. In Sweden, the Protestant Church often works like this, hands on in the dirt, like Christ with the lepers.
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Who’s Afraid of Sweden?
Sweden has recently been in the news after Donald Trump referred to as fact a Fox News report based on the statements of a certain Nils Bildt, a Swedish mythomaniac who passed off as news the usual anti-immigration and anti-Islam propaganda spread by the “Sverigedemokraterna” (Swedish Democrats) party, a nationalist-inspired political faction founded by some neo-Nazi groups.
The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to reply by publishing a significant and exhaustive press release in English, “Facts about migration and crime in Sweden,” which demolishes some of the most widespread false opinions/news currently circulating, based on facts and statistics extracted through official channels, primarily Police Force data.
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