Vashon Island Film Festival Unveils 2025 Festival Lineup, Sets ‘The Balconettes’ For Opening Night – Film News in Brief
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Vashon Island Film Festival Unveils 2025 Festival Lineup, Sets ‘The Balconettes’ For Opening Night – Film News in Brief

Vashon Film Institute, the non-profit organization dedicated to fostering independent filmmaking in the Pacific Northwest, has announced the film slate for its fourth annual Vashon Island Film Festival. The festival is set for Aug. 7-10, where nine features and 15 shorts will screen at the Vashon Theatre. The festival will open with a screening of the Opening Night film “The Balconettes,” which will screen out of competition. This year’s lineup will include six narrative and three documentary features, including Laurent Slama’s “A Second Life,” Ari Gold’s “Brother Verses Brother,” Ernesto Martinez Bucio’s “The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box)”, Georgi M. Unkovski’s “DJ Ahmet,” Henry Bernadet’s “Gamma Rays,” Phil Moniz and Kevin Claydon’s “Racewalkers,” Ben Hethcoat and Keita Ideno’s “Coroner To The Stars,” Brittany Shyne’s “Seeds,” and Benjamin Flaherty’s “Shuffle.” The narrative...
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Kangana Ranaut OPENS up about the financial reality of being an MP: ‘Actual salary is just Rs…’
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Kangana Ranaut OPENS up about the financial reality of being an MP: ‘Actual salary is just Rs…’

Bollywood's Queen Kangana Ranaut calls politics an expensive hobby. According to her, being an MP can't be considered a profession, and one needs another job. Read on to know more. 1/7 Who is Kangana Ranaut, actress turned politician?Kangana Ranaut is among the top Bollywood actresses who has been ruling people's hearts with her charming personality and talent. Kangana’s acting skills are way beyond any competition. She has been part of several successful films, including Queen. 2/7 Kangana Ranaut won the election from?Actress Kangana Ranaut recently chose a different career path to follow. She was recently elected as a...
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Is Elon Musk’s “America Party” Worth Taking Seriously?
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Is Elon Musk’s “America Party” Worth Taking Seriously?

For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang.There have been several political groupings called the American Party, or something similar, in U.S. history. Perhaps most famously, this was the official name of the Know Nothings, the once secret society (members were told to deny knowledge of it, hence “know nothing”) that developed a virulently anti-immigrant platform and became, according to Smithsonian Magazinethe country’s “first major third party.” In the early nineteen-hundreds, an American Party in Utah sprang up in opposition to the Mormon church; the following decade, one was formed in New York State by supporters of William Sulzer, a former governor who had tangled with Tammany Hall and been impeached and convicted—to this day the lone New York governor to hold that distinction, though perhaps owing only...
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