Angelina Jolie looks elegant as she joins Sophie, Countess of Wessex at the Fighting Stigma Through Film festival for the Preventing Sexual Violence In Conflict initiative
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- Published on Saturday, 24 November 2018 16:53
- Written by Daily mail
She's been an avid philanthropist ever since she first witnessed the crisis in war-torn Cambodia while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001.And Angelina Jolie continued her humanitarian work as she attended the Fighting Stigma Through Film festival at the BFI in London on Friday evening.The actress, 43, was joined at the event by Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and the women looked to be deep in conversation as they spoke together at the event.Angelina looked elegant as she arrived at the goodwill event wearing a chic white dress, which she had cinched at the waist with a statement belt.The Maleficent star added a glamorous flair to her ensemble with a lace undershirt, while she boosted her height in silver heels, while earlier on she wrapped up in a black longline coat.Her brunette locks were styled in a slicked back style which allowed her hair to fall in loose waves over her shoulders and frame her face well.Angelina highlighted her pretty features by wearing a slick of bright red lipstick, black eyeliner and smokey eye shadow.he royal looked demure in a navy blue coat, which she secured at the waist with a tightly knotted belt, and teamed up with a matching sleek shirt.Sophie pulled her blonde locks back into a glamorous bun, while she brushed on a natural palette of make-up and accessorised with a pair of jewel earrings.Both women appeared to be in high spirits together, clearly getting on well as the Countess of Wessex patted her on the arm as they spoke with each other.Angelina was seen walking alongside fellow actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, 41, who looked dapper in a pair of denim jeans and a blue blazer, which he teamed up with a chequered shirt and grey scarf.While the actress was also spotted talking with Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Jeremy Hunt, who spent much of the evening discussing the event alongside her.Angelina is one of the key guests of the film festival, which aims to use the power of cinema to help fight and prevent discrimination faced by survivors of sexual violence in conflict.
The actress is also a co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence In Conflict initiative, which hosted the event. 38 films and documentaries will be screened over two days at the event, sharing the stories of survivors and inspiring others to work alongside them.Leslie Thomas’ film The Prosecutors will have its world premiere at the festival, and other events include thought-provoking art installations, as well as organisations' showcases, and workshops led by prominent experts in the field. Angelina set up the Preventing Sexual Violence In Conflict initiative with William Hague in 2014, which has worked tirelessly to help those affected in countries like South Sudan and the Democratic Republic Of Congo.Talking about the initiative on Friday, according to The Guardian Hague said to young filmmakers: 'We’ve made a tremendous start, but it’s only a start because as things stand, no member of Isil or Boko Haram or the armed forces of Burma has been brought to trial for crimes of sexual violence.'The former foreign secretary added that it has been 'very difficult' to measure the success of the programme because of the scale of the problem, citing the 'tens of thousands of people raped in war in South Sudan'.This is not the first humanitarian project the Malificent star has set up, as she opened a foundation, now called the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation, in Cambodia in 2003.The foundation acts as a conservation and community development program in the Samlout Protected Area.The UNHCR special envoy was also inspired by the country to make her Golden Globe nominated movie, First They Killed My Father.Based on Cambodia human rights activist Luong Ung’s memoir, the film documents her experience as a young girl under the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge.Angelina spoke to Vanity Fair in 2017 about her first visit to the country, and said: 'I found a people who were so kind and warm and open, and, yes, very complex.'You go there, and you see the families come out with their blanket and their picnic to watch a sunset,' she explained.Angelina shares sons Maddox, 17, and Pax, 14, daughters Zahara, 13, and Shiloh, 12, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 10, with her ex-husband Brad Pitt.
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source : Daily Mail 
Angelina Jolie to guest-edit Radio 4's Today programme: Actress will feature refugees and violence against women when she takes reins of the flagship BBC show
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- Published on Thursday, 22 November 2018 04:20
- Written by Daily mail
She has combined a hugely successful Hollywood career with campaigning on a range of issues close to her heart.So Angelina Jolie will not be short of ideas for stories to pursue when she guest-edits BBC Radio 4’s Today programme over Christmas.Since 2003 the flagship current affairs show has invited prominent public figures to become the editor for a day during the festive period.Jolie, 43, will take the reins on December 28, when she will highlight the issues of violence against women in conflict zones and the refugee crisis.She will speak to refugees and survivors of conflict directly during the show.The mother-of-six, actress and campaigner has already begun work on her stint at Today.Her spokesman said she is ‘grateful’ for the opportunity ‘to draw on the BBC’s global expertise and network to explore practical solutions to a number of pressing issues of our time’.He added: ‘She has already begun working with the Today programme team and is looking forward to engaging a broad and diverse range of voices in the programme.’Jolie will not be briefing John Humphrys on the issues as Justin Webb and Mishal Husain are due to present that day.Other guest editors will include outgoing Question Time host David Dimbleby, 80. Meanwhile, the subject of ‘outer space’ will be explored in a separate, theme-based episode of the Radio 4 programme.Dimbleby will join Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's prize for fiction, the founder of lastminute.com Lady Lane-Fox, the Churchill biographer, Andrew Roberts, and Chidera Eggrue, the fashion blogger and campaigner on female body issues. Last year the Duke of Sussex was among the guest editors of the show, interviewing his own father, the Prince of Wales, and former US president Barack Obama.Actress Carey Mulligan, comedian Sir Lenny Henry, House of Commons Speaker John Bercow and Professor Stephen Hawking have also previously steered Today for special Christmas editions.
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source : Daily Mail
Angelina Jolie Is Returning To London To Fight Stigma Of Sexual Violence With Film Festival
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 November 2018 19:29
- Written by Elle
The 43-year-old will take part in the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict’s film festival in London later this month.She's visited refugee camps all over over the world, created a wildlife preserve in Cambodia previously under threat of poachers, and created the first Millennium Village Project in Asia.Now, Angelina Jolie is bringing her humanitarian efforts to London.Next week, the 43-year-old actress will take part in the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict’s film festival, 'Fighting Stigma Through Film'. The event will focus on harnessing the power of film 'to help fight the discrimination and social stigma faced by survivors of warzone rape and other forms of sexual violence in conflict', according to a press release from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in the UK.The mother-of-six, who is the co-founder of Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, will lead a Q&A session with Dr. Denis Mukege, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and City of Joy Centre Director Christine Schuler Deschryver.
'Artists and human rights defenders often take significant risks to tell the truth about crimes committed against defenceless women, children and men during war,' Jolie - who was awarded an honorary dame hood in 2014 - said in a press release.'The perpetrators of war crimes often go to extreme lengths to keep the truth from being told. So I am proud to support the filmmakers taking part in the festival.' She added: 'Stigma compounds the suffering of survivors of warzone rape. It is an unbearable injustice on a human level, and it is a major obstacle to achieving justice for victims of these sickening acts of violence. We need to examine and change the entrenched social attitudes that treat sexual violence as an inevitable consequence of war or lesser crime – including harmful attitudes to women.'
In 2014, Jolie and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague travelled to Sarajevo to meet victims of the conflict in their on-going campaign to end sexual violence against women in war.Films to be screened at the festival include The Prosecutors, a kickstarter backed film about a Congolese and Bosnian lawyer’s fight to get justice for survivors of sexual violence, and Silent War, which accounts by women and children systematically abused by members of the Assad regime.
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source : Elle
‘The Bone Collector': NBC Developing TV Adaptation of Denzel Washington Film
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- Published on Tuesday, 20 November 2018 11:36
- Written by The Wrap
NBC is developing a TV adaptation of Denzel Washington’s 1999 film, “The Bone Collector.” The NBC series is based on both the film and the book series by Jeffery Deaver, and follows Lincoln Rhyme, a retired genius forensic criminologist left paralyzed after an accident on the job. When a harrowing case brings him back to the force, Rhyme partners up with an ambitious young detective, Amelia Sachs, to take down some of the most dangerous criminals in the U.S.In the film, Amelia was played by Angelina Jolie. NBC handed out a premium script order for the project.The project is from Universal Television and Sony Pictures Television in association with Keshet Studios. The film, which grossed $151 million at the box office globally, was distributed jointly by Universal Pictures (U.S. and Canada) and Columbia Pictures (internationally).Boyd and Bianculli executive produce with Keshet’s Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Peter Traugott and Rachel Kaplan.
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source : The Wrap
Angelina Jolie beams proudly as she watches daughter Vivienne practice karate in Los Angeles
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- Published on Tuesday, 20 November 2018 07:48
- Written by Daily mail
She has kicked butt as Lara Croft, Mrs Smith, and Master Tigress.And Angelina Jolie was clearly delighted the apple has not fallen far from the tree as she watched daughter Vivienne practice karate on Monday night.The proud mama was spotted beaming as she silently spectated her youngest daughter training at her martial arts class in Los Angeles.The 43-year-old could not hide her delight as she stood at the back of the dojo, wrapped in a long grey shawl.With her sunglasses perched on her head and a cup of Starbucks coffee clutched to her chest, she stood alongside one of the Kenpo instructors as the students performed.Along with her ten-year-old twin brother Knox, Vivenne is the screen siren's youngest child of six with ex Brad Pitt.The former couple also share 12-year-old Shiloh, 13-year-old Zahara, 14-year-old Pax, and 17-year-old Maddox.In December, the pair are slated to duke it out in a Los Angeles courtroom over custody of the kids.They were reported to have reached an interim custody agreement regarding their six children in late summer.But negotiations appear to have broken down, and next month, the couple will ask a judge to rule on the custody battle.Angelina is asking for full custody, while her A-list ex wants a shared custody agreement. In addition, the judge will weigh in on dividing up their shared property, after it was revealed they had no prenup.
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source : Daily Mail
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