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As President Donald Trump continues to bow down at the altar of the fossil fuel industry and decimates federal commitments to confront the worsening climate crisis, activist groups in the United Kingdom took to the streets to grieve over losses and organize for renewed action.

Today, Extinction Rebellion Cambridge and other activist groups held a mock funeral for the 1.5°C target that international policymakers agreed to in the 2015 Paris Climate Accord to limit global average temperature rises above pre-industrial levels.

The other groups involved included Extinction Rebellion U.K., Cambridge Greenpeace,...

Kids director to world premiere The Smell of Us at Venice Days.

Venice Days, the independent sidebar of the Venice Film Festival (Aug 27 - Sept 6), has confirmed that it will host the world premiere of Larry Clark’s The Smell of Us on Aug 31.

The film, distributed by Wild Bunch, is the first that the Us filmmaker behind Kids and Bully has made outside the States.

Written with Mathieu Landais during Clark’s “new life” in Paris, and starring Michael Pitt, Alex Martin, and Niseem Theillaud, The Smell of Us is “the portrait of a group of self-destructive skateboarders in Paris,” according to the director.

Venice days unveiled its line-up last week.

Rome -- The Smell of Us, the latest from Kids director Larry Clark, will have its premiere on August 31 as part of Venice Days, the independent sidebar of the Venice Film Festival, the film’s international distributor, Wild Bunch, has confirmed. The feature stars Michael Pitt, Alex Martin and Niseema Theillaud in a story of a group of self-destructive skateboarders in Paris. The Smell of Us is Clark's first film to shoot outside the U.S. Photos The Scene at Comic-Con 2014 Clark wrote the script with Mathieu Landais, a young writer more commonly known as S.C.

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We visit the Battle of the Year set in Whittier, California to speak with the cast and crew

Director Benson Lee's 2008 documentary Planet B-Boy proved that the art form of breakdancing is still alive and well today, decades after the popular dance craze started in the 1980s. The filmmaker returns to put a narrative spin on B-boying in the upcoming drama Battle of the Year, arriving in theaters September 13. Back in December 2011, I was invited to spend a day at the Whittier, California set to speak with the cast and crew of this dance-fueled drama. In case you missed it, clickHere to watch the second trailer that debuted last week.

During most movie set visits I attend, we spend the day watching scenes being shot and interviewing actors, writers, directors, producers, or whoever else is available. Due to some unfortunate scheduling complications, we didn't get to see a lot of shooting,...

Basketball coach Derrek (Josh Holloway) takes on a much different kind of team in the second trailer for Screen Gems' Battle of the Year. Benson Lee directs this drama, loosely based off his own documentary Planet B-Boy, which centers on Derrek, who must rally a team of talented breakdancers to take on some of the best "B-boys" in the world at the Battle of the Year. Check out the latest footage from this dance-fueled saga, also starring Josh Peck, Chris Brown, Laz Alonso and Caity Lotz.

Battle Of The Year - Trailer 2

Battle of the Year comes to theaters September 13th, 2013 and stars Josh Peck, Josh Holloway, Chris Brown, Laz Alonso, Caity Lotz, Terrence Jenkins, Weronika Rosati, Alex Martin. The film is directed by Benson Lee.