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29 May 2012 3:35 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »

Chilean film My Last Round (Mi Ultimo Round) directed by Julio Jorquera Arriagada won the Best Feature Film Award at the 3rd Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival which concluded on May 27, 2012.

My Last Round is a story set in conservative Southern Chile about a working class relationship between two men – a boxer and a kitchen assistant.

Chief Guest Bollywood actor Anupam Kher who gave away the prize for the Best Film announced that he would sponsor the prize money from next year of Rs 50,000. “Cinema is meant to break barriers and Kashish is a wonderful attempt to provide a mainstream platform for the Lgbt community which is relegated to the margins,’’ said Kher.

Kher also gave away the Riyad Wadia Award for Best Emerging Indian Filmmaker, which went to The Night is Young (Raat Baki) directed by Pradipta Ray. Raat Baki deals with three persons – two queer and one »

- NewsDesk

16 March 2012 2:43 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »

By Robert J. Morais

In season four of Mad Men, Pete Campbell and Don Draper read The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by famed anthropologist Ruth Benedict in preparation for a pitch to Japanese Honda executives. Given their mining of anthropology for insight, a look at the show through an anthropological lens seems fitting. Client creative meetings, often dramatized in Mad Men, contain the defining attitudes, behaviors, and symbols of agency life, all of which we can decode when season five of Mad Men premiers March 25.

As anthropologist Helen Schwartzman says of meetings in general, advertising meetings are "sense makers" that enhance community and identity within an organization. These meetings contain the essence of agency-client relationships: conflicting objectives, displays of status, showcasing of insight and talent, control without appearing controlling, demonstration of passion without being combative, persuasion without browbeating. Executives who attend creative meetings must have a command of unwritten rules, »

- American Anthropological Association

2 items from 2012