In 1994, Banfield earned two IRIS awards for the "Best News Documentary" and "Best of Festival" categories, where she chronicled the life of a homeless man.

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He is the chief executive officer of Film Life and founder of the American Black Film Festival, which celebrates its 15 anniversary this year as a showcase for black film.

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But Holy Week, the Christian festival that commemorates the last week of Jesus' life, is a solemn celebration, and once mass begins, a calm settles over the congregation.

BBC: Easter in Rome

When I sit back and think over the life of my career, the first jazz festival I performed in was at the Monterey Jazz Festival in the early '60s.

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BP's new technique - called LoSal EOR and announced here at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen - promises to increase both the life and yield of oilfields worldwide.

BBC: BP unveils new technology to boost oil production

Highlights of the festival include the award-winning La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) by the talented Mauritanian director Abderahmane Sissako, who was commissioned to make a film about the year 2000.

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The film, a semi-autobiographical account of Ms. Ree's life, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival this past January.

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Despite prejudice and tragedy in Poland's past, a remarkable revival of Jewish life and culture is now under way, including an annual music festival in Cracow, near Auschwitz.

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To the short list of life's certainties--death, taxes, the Cannes film festival--we can add another inevitability: Every four years U.S. sports officials cook up a new scheme to make the U.S. an international powerhouse in men's soccer.

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The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington, which receives its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on Sunday.

BBC: Tim Hetherington, his life and death

But Greenspan has been almost part of her daily life since she first completed six paintings on him in 2003 for an art festival in Charlottesville, Va.

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Other highlights during the three-week festival this May will include a world premiere celebrating the Britten Centenary Year, and the UK premiere of My Life After by Argentine playwright and performer Lola Arias.

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Actress Nicole Kidman and Oscar-winning Life of Pi director Ang Lee will join Steven Spielberg on this year's Cannes Film Festival jury.

BBC: Nicole Kidman and Ang Lee join Cannes jury