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Educators strive to ensure that the learning environment and curricula are without exception for all students. To do so, including LGBTQ+ representation in education plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. It helps affirm that the broad curricula impact student’s ability to accept, understand and respect one another. These attributes not only help in supporting LGBTQ+ students in schools but also make students better humans. According to a post by the American Bar Association in 2022, the Trevor Project a national organization focused on LGBTQ+ suicide prevention, found that a positive school environment made a larger impact on student’s lives than similarly positive environments at home, work, or elsewhere in the community.

EXCLUSIVE: After eight months of bargaining with nonfiction production company Story Syndicate, the Writers Guild of America East and Motion Picture Editors Guild (IATSE Local 700) are putting pressure on the Harry & Meghan producers to finalize a fair deal.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Cate Blanchett and her fellow jury members from Poland’s Camerimage festival have released a statement affirming their support for the festival and commitment to “meaningful discussions” after controversial comments made by the festival’s director to justify the dearth of female cinematographers in the lineup. “We welcome debate regarding gender representation,” the jury members wrote in a statement that was posted by jury members Anna Higgs and Sandy Powell.

A Stirling primary school has been singled out for its approach to resolving classroom conflict after it was praised by the Scottish Government at the launch of new national anti-bullying guidance for schools.

Rust.” The demands are a response to a heated dispute over a column by Marek Żydowicz, the festival director, in Cinematography World magazine, that provoked allegations of misogyny. In the column, Żydowicz seemed to suggest that the selection in the program of more female cinematographers and directors could lead to the inclusion of “mediocre film productions” at the expense of “works and artists with outstanding artistic achievements.” He posed the question: “Should we reject what is esteemed and valuable just to ‘make space’ for the necessity of social change?” He went on to argue: “Whilst festivals like Cannes, Berlin or Venice are criticized for their selections due to succumbing to or promoting [political or ideological trends], Camerimage remains committed to artistic values as the foremost criterion for qualifying and promoting film art.” His column triggered an angry response from the British Society of Cinematographers, which wrote in an open letter to Żydowicz: “We are disheartened and angered by your profoundly misogynistic comments and aggressive tone, which we view as symptomatic of a deep-rooted prejudice.

Women in Cinematography — the popular and influential union that represents women cinematographers across the globe — has become the latest industry organization to publicly criticize Camerimage Film Festival head Marek Żydowicz for comments he made last week in a magazine op-ed. 

Lewis Hamilton wears an all black look while attending his Mission 44 “Reimagining the Future” Gala Dinner held at The Design Museum on Wednesday (Novemebr 6) in London.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor The National Association of Latino Independent Producers has unveiled the fourth cohort of the Women of Color Incubator. Carolina Costa (“The Feels – Or The Debilitated Condition Of The Reproductive System”), Luna Cristales (“Statelines”), Sonia Malfa (“La Sangre Llama”), Alba Roland Mejia (“Greetings From St. Helena”) and Sally Tran (“Love Cycle”) are among the chosen filmmakers.

The council that ran the school in Educating Greater Manchester has issued a statement after ex-headteacher Drew Povey was banned from teaching following a long-running dispute.

Naman Ramachandran India’s Yash Raj Films is mounting an international re-release of Yash Chopra‘s “Veer Zaara” to mark the film’s 20th anniversary, with the Shah Rukh Khan starrer set to play on 600 screens worldwide starting Nov. 7.

Marta Balaga In Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival winner “Gray Zone,” Slovak director Daniela Meressa Rusnoková proves that the personal can be universal, reliving her son’s premature birth. “I’d had two children before, so I knew how it ‘should’ go. Suddenly, he was fighting for his life, in agony.

Good Morning Britain viewers were split in their opinions after the ITV programme introduced a significant change on Tuesday.

and five-time Olympic gold medalist . For Garcia-Brito, a lawyer by training who has spent years building community-first programs (she led communications for Nike's lauded campaign), it’s a moment to push her vision forward.

A Stirling campaigner who advocates for greater access to higher education for care-experienced young people has been named in a list of 30 women and girls to watch.

A new creative hub for the north west Dumfries community has been officially with a fun-filled get-together.

A site at Ericstane near Moffat in Dumfriesshire is the first to be excavated as part of a new £360,000 Destination Tweed community archaeology project.

Council bosses have moved to clarify the position over a hotel now being used to house asylum seekers.

'Victorian' school uniform policies that insist on pupils wearing expensive, impractical clothing must be updated, a Falkirk councillor has said.

In most cases, predicting the next academy graduate to break into Pep Guardiola's first team is easy. There are usually clues, from first-team training to squad inclusions or eye-catching form in the under-21s.

Councillors all over Scotland could soon be allowed to vote by proxy following a plea made by Perth and Kinross Council.

A woman who helped create Scotland’s rape crisis movement is urging 16 other centres to follow Glasgow’s lead by restoring single sex services for traumatised female assault victims. Rosemary Whyte, who co-founded the country’s first centre in Glasgow in 1978, hailed the “brave and principled” decision by Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis (GCRC) to return to single sex support.