Melanie Wise, founder of the Artemis Women in Action film festival, devotes her career to supporting empowering female roles in action movies.
Manchester filmmaker Faisal A. Qureshi has won the $10,000 pitching prize at the third Astana International Action Film Festival in Kazakhstan for his script The Adversary, which is based on the film genre Ostern, or 'Eastern', the Russian equivalent of a Western.
21-26 March, kings.caMarchukingsir There's endless fun for petrol heads at the action-packed Festival of Power, a weekend of drag Racing at Santa Pod Raceway in Northamptonshire, over Easter weekend.cam
Yet it has distinguished itself from the larger network-run action-sports festivals.
Action-sport festivals like the X Games and the Dew Tour professionalized the genre, with five-figure prize purses and broadcasts of the contests on ESPN and NBC.
I'll be around on @CasparLS, while Alex Needham plans to go scouting the Adelaide fringe festival action.
Following Jay-Z's lead, the world's hottest hip-hop and R&B stars all now want a piece of the UK festival action.
Caffè e Gelato (Potsdamer Platz Arkaden Center, gelato-berlin.de) with pronto table service is immediately visible on the Arkaden's first floor as is Salomon Bagels (salomon-bagels.de) from where you can keep track of the festival action below.
Organisers, who include the British writer William Dalrymple, issued a statement stressing that Kunzru and the other authors acted without their prior knowledge or consent, and saying they would not tolerate any illegal action at the festival.
The Festival action starts this Sunday, with the first two fixtures in the Armed Forces competition at the Colchester Garrison – Great Britain face New Zealand, and Australia take on the newcomers from Serbia.
