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Complete Winners’ List of Oscars 2017!

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The 89th Academy Awards, celebrated the best of the best names in the film industry. The award ceremony was held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.

Casey Affleck won the Best Actor Award for “Manchester by the Sea” while Emma Stone won the Best Actress Award for “La La Land.”

The end of the ceremony was bit disappointing when film “La La Land” was declared as best film, but suddenly it was announced that there was an error, and the best film awards goes to “Moonlight.”

Well, here’s the complete list of the winners,

Best Film

Moonlight

Best Actor

Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)

Best Actress

Emma Stone (La La Land)

Best Director

Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)

Best Supporting Actress

Viola Davis (Fences)

Best Original Screenplay

Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight)

Best Cinematography

Linus Sandgren (La La Land)

Best Original Score

Justin Hurwitz (La La Land)

Best Original Song

Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land)

Best Sound Editing

Sylvain Bellemare (Arrival)

Best Foreign Language Film

Asghar Farhadi (The Salesman)

Best Film Editing

John Gilbert (Hacksaw Ridge)

Best Visual Effects

Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon (The Jungle Book)

Best Production Design

David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds Wasco (La La Land)

Best Sound Mixing

Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace (Hacksaw Ridge)

Best Documentary Feature

Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow (O.J.: Made in America)

Best Animated Film

Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer (Zootopia)

Best Animated Short Film

Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer (Piper)

Best Documentary Short Subject

Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara (The White Helmets)

Best Live Action Short Film

Kristof Deak and Anna Udvardy (Sing)

Best Costume Design

Colleen Atwood (Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them)

Best Make-Up

Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson (Suicide Squad)

 

Fashion Pakistan Week (FPW17) on Twitter

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Fashion Pakistan, is one of the leading platform for Pakistani fashion designers. Fashion Pakistan has a long tradition of holding bi-annual fashion weeks, with the very first Fashion Pakistan Week. The council has continually looked to new ways to support Pakistan’s growing fashion industry.

The Fashion Pakistan Council (FPC) organizes 2 fashion weeks in a year, one as spring/summer fashion week, and the other as autumn/winter fashion week. And this year, council has successfully completed its 10 years.

This time Fashion Week will be for 2 days instead of 3 days. Because the council has decided to invest on quality instead of quantity. The dates for FPW Spring/summer 2017 are the 22nd and 23rd of February, 2017. The event will feature some of the country’s most renowned labels.

Let’s see what’s happening on Twitter!

Anoushay Ashraf is so excited for FPW17

See what Shehroz Sabzwari says about FPW17

Check out the amazing teaser of humayun Alamgir

Watch who’s running for Bank Alfalah’s rising talent award

Nauman Afreen is excited for his first teaser

Fashion Blitz while sharing updates

While Iftkhan Khan in reply to Fashion Pakistan and wishes hood luck

So, that’s all from Twitter, while I’m also so excited for this event. Keep following me on social media for all the latest updates and stay tuned.

Few hours to go! “Don’t Speak, Just Eat”

So, the biggest food festival of the year is all set to take place in Karachi within few hours. Yes, Karachi Eat Food Festival is all set to begin today 13th January 2017, and will continue till Sunday 15th January 2017, at Frere Hall, Karachi.

The event is organized by Sara Chapra, Aslam Khan and Omar Omari of CKO Event Architecture, while PR & Media by Ali Chaudhry of Latitude CRS.

Karachi Eat Festival is being organized since 3 years, and this year is going to be its 4th year. In the first year of festival around 15K to 18K people became the part of it, while in second around 28K to 30K, and in third 70K. But this year around 70K to 100K people are expected to attend this festival.

As Karachites are keen of eating, drinking and entertainment, so its such a wonderful initiative by CKO Event Architecture to gather people of Karachi and provide them such platform where they can not only release their stress but also can eat any kind of food and can enjoy live concert at one place.

The Frere Hall is going to be transform into foodie’s wonderland for 3 days of eating, drinking, and lots of entertainment. The festival is all set to attract the thousands of foodies from the city of lights.

Many well-known entries as well as online food businesses will be showcasing their foods, while in live concert Zoe Viccaji, Natasha Humera Ejaz, Jimmy Khan, Sara Haider, Sounds of Kolachi and Fuzon will also be performing to make crowd more energetic.

While commenting Mr. Omar Omari of CKO Event Architecture said,

“We are quite excited to see all the new upcoming restaurants and business that evolve because of their participation in the festival. Karachi Eat is an iconic event, and we are proud and excited that we are putting forward a positive image of our country.”

Many celebrities, public figures, and well known personalities are also expected to be the part of Karachi Eat Festival. So, Karachites what are you waiting for?

It’s your time to enjoy this amazing festival of eating, drinking, and lots of entertainment, which is going to be start from today and will continue till Sunday.

Foodies, “Don’t speak, just Eat.”

Sartyoon Sang Crafts Festival- SRSO

The 4th Sartyoon Sang Crafts Festival was organized by SRSO (Sindh Rural Support Organization) on 6th to 8th January – 2017, at Ocean Mall – Clifton, Karachi. The main reason behind the festival was to display the work around 1200 women artisans from the northern districts of Sindh.

SRSO is a non – for – profit organization, which is working in Sindh. It was established in 2003 with fund of RS 1 billion by government of Sindh for reducing poverty, skill development, health and education. While Sartyoon Sang (together with friends) is struggling to empower the women of slum communities of Sindh since 2011. Not only that, it also promotes crafts, culture, embroidery work, textile products and many others.

The festival attracted a large numbers of women residents of Clifton and other areas of the city since its very inauguration day. There was a wonderful display of Sindhi handicrafts by rural women, including home textiles, basketry, jewelry, dresses, dupattas, shawls, embellished with traditional embroidery and cutwork. It was a perfect mixture of all Sindhi ingredients under one roof.

The attendees were really enjoyed this festival so much, and were highly getting attracted by those beautiful crafts. As a result they were buying things like home-made slippers, crafts, decorated things, shawls, ajraks etc.

While talking about the festival Mr. Muhammed Dittal Kalhoro (CEO of SRSO) stated,

“The event objective was to facilitate better incomes for women artisans of rural Sindh.”

He continued,

“We have trained more than 10,000 women from some of the under developed regions of Jacobababad, Kandkot, Kashmore, shikarpur, Gohtki, Kambar- Shahdakot, Khairpur, and Sukkur that to help these women gain maximum monetary benefit from their skills, they have incorporated urban trends into their work.”

He further said,

“In order to set apart their work from what is available in the market, we have made a few innovations, such as net work done on the blankets.”

It was such a great initiative to promote Sindhi culture and crafts among urban people, by displaying amazing work by rural women at such platform where people go only for buying branded things. But it’s a beauty of Sindhi culture and its crafts that people automatically get attract towards it. And at the same time, it is also so beneficial for those rural women who are from the remote areas of Sindh that just because of this platform they get a chance to display their work due to which many people get attract, and as a result earn from it.

Here are the some of the pictures from Sartyoon Sang festival.

IFLIX SIGNS WITH PAKISTAN’S TOP NETWORK, HUM TV

IFLIX, the world’s leading Internet TV service has announced a licensing deal with Hum TV, Pakistan’s most established and acclaimed 24-hour entertainment TV channel, and soon to launch in Pakistan.

iflix members in Pakistan will soon be able to watch Hum TV’s most popular and award-winning dramas, including Bin Roye, Udaari, Mann Mayal, Zara Yaad Kar, Pakeeza, Gul-e-Rana, Maan, Kaisay Tum Se Kahoon, Qaid-e-Tanhai, Vasl and many more. In the coming months, it will continue to add more of Hum TV’s best dramas, with all the time audience favorites including Humsafar, Zindagi Gulzar Hai, Sanam, Diyar-e-Dil, Sadqay Tumhare, Dil-e-Muztar, Meray Qatil Meray Dildar, Man-o-Salwa, Shanakht, Kadoorat, and many more.

While announcing, James Bridges (iflix Group Chief Content Officer) stated,

“We are deeply committed to localization, and this landmark partnership with Hum TV is a testament to that promise. We are thrilled to add so many of Hum TV’s most popular and award-winning beloved, local dramas to our vast library of top international and regional content, as a part of our promise to deliver the best and widest selection of TV shows and movies from all over the world to our members.”

Hassan Jawed (Chief Strategy Officer of Hum Network Limited) commented,

“Our collaboration with iflix exhibits our commitment to promoting quality entertainment content globally. As part of this commitment, we have focused on digital media to make our content easily accessible to our global target audience. We are confident that iflix will prove to be a key strategic partner for us in the years to come.”

iflix is currently available in Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Brunei, and will continue to spread its world-class service to emerging markets in the coming months.  It offers consumers a vast library of top Hollywood, Asian regional, and local TV shows and movies including many first run exclusives and award winning programs. iflix subscribers can also download TV shows and movies from iflix’s extended index for offline viewing.

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