Browsing Tag: Media

Gurbani Media Center Mobile App Released!

With the SikhNet Gurbani Media Center app you will have the world's largest archive of Gurban Kirtan audio available to you wherever you go!
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Film Festival Winners Announced!

Congratulations to the 2011 SikhNet Online Youth Film Festival prize winners in all three categories, Junior, Intermediate and Senior! This year's winning films show more mastery than any previous year.
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The 2011 SikhNet Film Festival – Reviews & Thoughts

By giving the Sikh youth a "stage" and some prizes as encouragement, we have seen so many personal and creative stories. If we want to educate our own community and the world about what Sikhi is about, then we have to have the skills, tools and actually do it. No one is going to do it for us.
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Clockwatch Watch - The Arrival

Clockwork Watch is an immersive story and participatory experience set in a retro-futurist vision of Victorian England. The narrative is played out across two graphic novels, interactive promenade theatre, live action role-play, online adventures, an interactive book and a feature film.
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Exposure of Sikhism at national level in America

Sikhs and Hindus are featured prominently in the nationwide PBS public television documentary “The Asian & Abrahamic Religions: A Divine Encounter in America” which will be shown on over 300 public television stations nationwide in the USA.
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Sikhs and Bollywood ~ A Fresh Perspective

There was a strong Sikh presence in Bollywood, but they never came to the fore-front as Sikhs, because of inherent taboos instilled and strengthened that somehow, movies are taboos for Sikhs. It also gave birth to an unfounded perception that persists that the Sikhs in Bollywood movies are presented as “buffoons”. Bollywood has been making caricature of minorities.
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India to lead the mobile internet revolution

Despite the booming information technology industry that has made it "the back office to the world," India still lags far behind nimble China in the race to provide universal internet access to its citizens. But as prices for smart phones plunge and India's cost-slashing mobile service providers get ready to roll out broadband-ready 3G networks, India is poised to leapfrog the PC and take pole position in the mobile internet revolution, says McKinsey & Co.
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National Geographic Apologizes for Portraying Sikhs as Terrorists

“We appreciate the prompt response and apology from National Geographic acknowledging their error. This experience highlights the need for Sikh Americans to be vigilant against inaccurate portrayals of our community in the media. Such inaccuracies promote misconceptions and increase the challenges our community faces.”
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Sikh Art and Film Festival - "Sikh-centric" films, art and music in Southern California

SikhLens is proud to announce its annual Sikh Art and Film Festival (SAFF) to be held from November 19th-21st, 2010 at the prestigious Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University in Orange, CA.
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The future of Sikh Media – A personal perspective (OP-ED)

Maybe it is time to take stock of where we are and where we’re heading, from a TV perspective. Today, there are many Muslim based channels, again defined by SkyTV as International? There is one Hindu channel and three Sikh Channels...
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