The movie The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020) [A Metamorfose dos Pássaros], by Portuguese film producer and director Catarina Vasconcelos, will represent Portugal at the Oscars 2022, competing for the Best International Film award, the Portuguese Academy of Cinema announced. Vasconcelos’ film was world premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2020, where it […]
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Film: ‘The Metamorphosis of Birds’ competing for the Oscars 2022 – Portugal
Posted on 01 November 2021.
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Appointed: Randi Charno Levine US Ambassador to Portugal – White House
Posted on 31 October 2021.
President Joe Biden has nominated cultural philanthropist and diplomat, Randi Charno Levine, the new United States Ambassador to Portugal. Ambassador Levine replaces George Edward Glass (2017-2021) a businessman and former diplomat. She is the second woman to hold the position, after Elizabeth Bagley, who was US Ambassador to Portugal under President Bill Clinton. According to […]
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Book: ‘Through a Grainy Landscape’ by Millicent Borges Accardi – Editor’s Note
Posted on 31 October 2021.
Millicent Borges Accardi adds luster to her acclaim as a leading poet of the Portuguese-American experience with a new collection of breathtaking scope. She inhabits the new artistic frontier in exploring what heritage means to those descended from immigrants long established in the place of their dreams—“a dark mixture of all I have lost.” There’s […]
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Business: Global Diaspora Network meets Canadian entrepreneurs – Portugal
Posted on 31 October 2021.
The Global Diaspora Network [Rede Global da Diaspora] is in Canada, from November 2 to November 6, in Montreal, Toronto and Mississauga, for an international business convention, bringing together more than 150 Portuguese and Canadian entrepreneurs of Portuguese descent. The Global Diaspora Network is the largest Portugal based business network, with more than 7,500 members, […]
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Book | The Life of Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston | by Richard Gribble – Editor’s Note
Posted on 31 October 2021.
Cardinal Humberto Medeiros served the Church as priest and bishop in Texas and Massachusetts. An immigrant from the Azores he utilized his superior intelligence, administrative ability, and language skills to move up rapidly in Church ranks. His work with the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, both nationally and internationally, especially with migrant workers, was notable. […]
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COP26: António Guterres takes the stage at Glasgow Conference – United Nations
Posted on 28 October 2021.
By Len Port António Guterres, former prime minister of Portugal, now secretary-general of the United Nations, is likely to be one of the most articulate and passionate advocates for urgent action at the gathering of world leaders in Glasgow (UK) for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). In one of his many recent statements […]
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