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Royal baby lookalikes: From Kate Middleton to Prince Louis and beyond

February 6, 2023 by www.newsweek.com Leave a Comment

As Kate Middleton launched her new early years awareness campaign last week with a series of high profile engagements and media projects, she encouraged members of the public to share photographs from their own “early years,” which she determines as being between pregnancy and the age of five.

To inspire others, the princess released a photo showing herself as an infant, playing with her father, Michael Middleton. Posted to Twitter on Saturday, the royal said: “This weekend, we’d love for you all to spend time with your friends, families, colleagues and communities talking about your early childhoods and how they’ve shaped your lives. I hope you’ll also consider joining me in sharing a picture of yourselves before your fifth birthday to help with those conversations and to share some smiles and memories too.”

On seeing Kate’s photo, a number of online commenters highlighted the many similarities she shares with her youngest son Prince Louis .

Here, Newsweek looks, though images, at members of the royal family and their infant doppelgängers:

Kate Middleton and Prince Louis

Kate Middleton gave birth to her third child on April 23, 2018. He was named Prince Louis Arthur Charles of Cambridge and christened at St James’s Palace on July 9.

The princess and Louis have shared a number of touching moments in public that fans have praised online, most notably during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II in June 2022, where his affectionate— and sometimes cheeky —behaviour towards his mother became a central talking point.

Kate’s own childhood was spent in Buckinghamshire, England, apart from a short period when the princess was two, where her family moved to Jordan for her father’s work.

The princess uploaded a photograph of herself and her father on February 4 as part of her “Shaping Us” early years childhood development awareness campaign. A number of social media users and commenters highlighted the physical similarities between the royal and her youngest son.

Prince William and Prince George

Prince George was born on July 22, 2013, the eldest child of Prince William and Kate Middleton. He will one day inherit the throne from his father.

The prince and William share a number of physical similarities, most notably their bright blonde hair as babies.

These similarities were heightened during George’s early years when his parents would dress him in outfits similar to ones worn by William in the 1980s for important events such as the Trooping the Colour celebrations .

King Charles and Prince Harry

King Charles III and his younger son, Prince Harry , shared a number of physical similarities as the prince grew up, though notably not his red hair, which is a trait inherited from Princess Diana ‘s Spencer family .

In many family portraits from the 1980s and early 1990s Charles and Harry would pose together, with William and Diana mirroring them.

Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Charlotte

Princess Charlotte, born Princess Charlotte Diana Elizabeth of Cambridge on May 2, 2005, has been closely compared to her great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, for many years.

In the 2016 documentary film Our Queen at 90, Kate Middleton revealed that the monarch was particularly “thrilled” that the family had welcomed a new female addition.

“The Queen was really thrilled that it was a little girl and I think as soon as we came back here to Kensington, she was one of our first visitors here,” she said.

“I think she’s very fond of Charlotte. She’s always watching what she’s up to.”

Prince Harry and Archie Mountbatten-Windsor

Prince Harry’s firstborn child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on May 6, 2019, and though his public appearances were closely limited by his parents, when official photographs of the young royal were released, his similarities to his father were often commented on.

Archie shares Harry’s ginger tinted hair and wide-eyed expressions, something which was commented on when the Sussexes took their infant son on a tour of South Africa when he was four-months-old.

Princess Eugenie and August Brooksbank

Princess Eugenie, the youngest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, gave birth to her first child on February 21, 2021, and together with husband Jack Brooksbank named the baby son August Philip Hawke Brooksbank.

As Princess Eugenie plays no official working role within the monarchy, her public appearances have been limited, with the queen’s Platinum Jubilee pageant at Buckingham Palace in 2022 being a rare exception.

In January, the princess announced that she was expecting her second child .

James Crawford-Smith is Newsweek’s royal reporter based in London. You can find him on Twitter at @jrcrawfordsmith and read his stories on Newsweek’s The Royals Facebook page .

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G20 member countries agree on continued use of fossil fuels over 15-20 years: Power Secy

February 6, 2023 by energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com Leave a Comment

power ministry said in a statement.

The member countries responded positively to the need for energy security and diversified supply chains but the participants shared the view the energy transition pathway should be different for each country depending on its energy base and potential, power secretary Alok Kumar said talking to media persons on the second day’s proceedings.

“There emerged a clear understanding that fossil fuels would continue to be used more or less in most of the countries in the coming 15 to 20 years to increase the share of renewable energy,” he said.

Commenting on the session on Universal Access to Clean Energy, Kumar said the deliberations stressed the need to manage fuel prices and choice of technology to ensure everyone on the planet has access to affordable energy and the member countries favoured a people-centric energy transition mechanism.

The ministry said the delegates complimented India for the mission-mode implementation of Soubhagya , Ujala and Ujjwala energy schemes that led to complete access to electricity, clean cooking and efficient lighting. Kumar also informed the next ETWG meeting is scheduled in the first week of April in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

Kumar said the member countries appreciated that grid inter-connections like the one India is promoting under “One Sun, One World, One Grid” can lead to better utilisation of available energy sources amongst member countries without much storage capacity.

Oscars nominations 2023 | Four reasons why ‘All That Breathes’ should win Best Documentary award

January 24, 2023 by www.moneycontrol.com Leave a Comment

Shaunak Sen’s ‘All that Breathes’ wins nomination for the Best Documentary film at the 95th Academy Awards. (Photo courtesy: Rise Films/Kiterabbit Films/HBO/Shaunak Sen)

After I had finished watching Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes in January last year, shortly after it was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, I felt like picking up a camera, rushing out, and shooting something.

It is the kind of film that will inspire someone to make films, which is possibly the highest compliment you can give to a film or a filmmaker. Sen’s documentary, which had won the Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema Documentary in Sundance Film Festival last year — winning the top award, a first for India — has, on January 24, won a nomination at the 95th Academy Awards, and this is the second time in a row that India has been nominated in the said category at the Oscars. Last year, Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s Writing with Fire was the first to pave the way. It is yet another year of excellence for the Indian documentary film.

The brothers Nadeem Shehzad (left) and Mohammad Saud in a still from Shaunak Sen’s Oscars-nominated documentary ‘All that Breathes’. (Photo courtesy Rise Films/Kiterabbit Films/HBO/Shaunak Sen)

All That Breathes follows the brothers, Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud, who rescue injured black kites and treat them out of a basement in their house in Wazirabad in north Delhi. Sen’s film juxtaposes the claustrophobic but intimate world of this basement with the vast expanse of Delhi’s sky and cityscape, which has turned noxious and inhospitable for the city’s human and non-human living beings.

But as the brothers say in the documentary, “evolution favours experimentation”, these creatures, starting from the rats who populate the opening scenes in a close-up shot, to the snails, millipedes, pigs and kites, who feature in the 91-minute film, live on and thrive amid the chaos and dystopia of the contemporary Indian metropolis.

Since its Sundance win, All That Breathes has snagged a series of top documentary awards which include the Golden Eye award for documentaries at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. HBO has picked up its worldwide television rights. Its recent nominations include a Directors Guild of America award for Sen and the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers award for Ben Bernhard and Riju Das, who shot majority of the film shortly after cinematographer Saumyananda Sahi had to leave the project.

All That Breathes , I feel, has a strong chance to bring home the Oscar for Best Documentary. Here are four reasons why:

Almost like creative non-fiction

The biggest asset of All That Breathes is its deliberate aesthetic form, which is unlike what you would associate with the average documentary: “verité, handheld, sudden cuts,” as Sen puts it.

Sen and his team introduce styles associated with fictional filmmaking into the documentary, wherein several passages in All That Breathes comprise slow, languid shots of the city’s vista, and positioning mosquitoes, rats, snails, and so on, as part of the same ecosystem as humans, a central philosophy which gives the film its title. In between are interspersed moments from the brothers’ lives as they soldier on from day to day, rescuing kites, facing infrastructural problems and lack of funds.

“While the verité documentary unfolds as if the makers are in fly-on-the-wall mode, life unfolds, and we witness, and the film is made on the edit table, here, we wanted curated actuality that is tripoded and controlled,” Sen explains. “You don’t see sliders and tripod pans in documentary. The verité form of this very film would just be nice people doing nice things, but that wasn’t the film I wanted to make. I don’t agree with the understanding that documentaries capture pristine and untainted reality. Here, I am working with the substance of reality and giving it aesthetic shape and the aspiration was to be visually compelling.”

Are there other films like this? Among Sen’s inspirations was Russian filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky’s 2020 documentary Gunda , which looks at the daily lives of a pig, a one-legged chicken and two cows.

The brothers themselves — and the lovable Salik

The brothers' helping hand Salik Rehman in a still from Shaunak Sen's Oscars-nominated 'All That Breathes'. (Photo courtesy Rise Films/Kiterabbit Films/HBO/Shaunak Sen) The brothers’ helping hand Salik Rehman in a still from Shaunak Sen’s Oscars-nominated ‘All That Breathes’. (Photo courtesy Rise Films/Kiterabbit Films/HBO/Shaunak Sen)

All That Breathes is as much a look at how Delhi’s non-human living creatures co-exist cheek by jowl, making do in an increasingly polluted wasteland, as it is a story of two brothers’ love for the non-human and the lengths, they go to be, ultimately, kind in a world that desperately needs more kindness. (The film was shot during the Delhi protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, and the violence it led to, snatches of which leak into the narrative).

While the brothers go about their duties with a sincerity and seriousness that is “almost stoic and deceptively uninteresting”, as Sen describes, they are also “philosophers of the urban” who have been observing the ever-changing city and the greying skies for years. Their banter aside, their views on the city, which often work as voiceover as the camera slowly tracks the kites in all their glory, could easily be slipped into a book of philosophical quotes and no one would know the difference.

By contrast, their friend and helper, Salik, a bespectacled and unassuming young man, offers a colour to the documentary bordering on comic relief. An early scene has a kite snatching his glasses away. In other scenes, Salik comes across as “almost innocent and unvarnished”, Sen says. Among the reactions Sen witnessed after the film’s premiere at Sundance, he says, was “people were saying they felt like hugging Salik”.

The otherworldly cinematography

The spectacular cinematography of Shaunak Sen’s Oscars-nominated ‘All That Breathes’. (Photo courtesy Rise Films/Kiterabbit Films/HBO/Shaunak Sen)

The cinematography by Sahi, Bernard and Das flows in tandem with the quietude and grace with which Shehzad and Saud conduct their daily business. In sync is Roger Goula’s hypnotic and dissonant music where beautiful strings are buried underneath layers of electronic synth suggesting something that was once beautiful (in Delhi, or, the world) has gone awry.

Meanwhile, the film is packed with graceful shots of little creatures that make you scratch your head about how they were conceptualised and executed.

For example, one shot tracks a snail slowly moving in the foreground against a burning pyre for the Holika festival. “We are making the human not the centre of the documentary but the non-human,” Sen explains. “We are following the snail’s time, non-human time, as a way to regard the world as experienced by those who are not us.”

Sen’s assistant directors figured out which locations in Delhi were frequented by animals and the crew kept visiting them daily to shoot. Among these was Delhi’s Hamdard Chowk where a certain area would be infested with rats after sundown. The ambitious four-minute opening of the film tracks down from the city’s traffic lights and enters deep into this world of rats, which squeal and squirm audibly transporting the viewer into a non-human space, and instantly the scene cuts to the open sky where a magisterial kite flies far, far away.

Another crazy shot has a millipede crawling over a leaf on the ground and a puddle of water near it reflects the airplane in the sky: all part of the film’s philosophy that constantly connects sky and the several layers of earth in poetic, interesting ways. “That shot came after 10 tilt-downs of the camera, and the moment we had it, I knew it, we are coming to Sundance,” Sen quips.

Empathy for but also Curiosity towards the Other

The black kites in Shaunak Sen’s Oscars-nominated documentary ‘All That Breathes’ (Photo courtesy Rise Films/Kiterabbit Films/HBO/Shaunak Sen)

Behind the style and cinematic finesse of All That Breathes is a throbbing heart that persuades you to look closely at the world around you and understand that everyone, not just humans across boundaries of class, caste or gender, but all kinds of animals are here and now in the same planet, experiencing the same world, perhaps, a little differently, but in that difference lies the truth of all that is life and living: we are all we have and there is nothing else.

“I wanted to do something that connects the human and the non-human,” Sen says about the film’s origins in his mind. “I want to show the simultaneity and coexistence of life, writ large.”

Among his intentions with the film which he kept repeating through the conversation was “to render the natural world poetic”. And just as poetic are his hopes with a viewer’s experience after having watched All That Breathes : “The idea was to reenchant the sky, to hope the audience, after seeing this film, looks up at the sky immediately. I wanted the film to have elements of a fairytale gone dystopic, the nostalgia of childhood when the brothers fell in love with the kites at an early age.”

MTV To Air ‘Don’t Leave Me Behind’ Commercial-Free, Documentary On Teenage Ukrainian Refugees Traumatized By Russian War

February 6, 2023 by deadline.com Leave a Comment

EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s nearly year-long war in Ukraine has claimed the lives of more than 7,000 civilians, including 438 children, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. But the impact of the invasion goes much further than those numbers, of course – the bloodshed has sent more than five million Ukrainians fleeing across the Polish border, reportedly half of them teenagers or younger.

Those traumatized Ukrainian teens are the focus of the new documentary Don’t Leave Me Behind: Stories of Young Ukrainian Survival , which will premiere on MTV on February 21, just days before the war’s one-year anniversary. MTV is airing the film commercial-free.

“Filmmaker Nathaniel Lezra brings viewers just miles from the Ukraine-Poland border,” MTV said in a statement about the documentary, “where he chronicles the lives of Ukrainian teenage refugees as they process the unimaginable trauma of being displaced from their country and separated from their fathers fighting the war at home.”

A pair of teens occupy the foreground in Lezra’s film – 18-year-old Oleksandra “Sasha” Kunitska and 15-year-old Daria “Dasha” Unger, “as they try to find normalcy in Poland – through volunteering work, mental health support, family and friendships – while maintaining hope for their families left behind, home country and their own futures.” A third central character, Ukrainian psychologist Ekaterina “Katya” Trofimenko, oversees a therapy group in which Dasha and other youths participate.

“As the world marks the one-year anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, we sought to shine a light on the enormity of the human impact of this war, particularly among the millions of young people who have fled their country,” noted Nina L. Diaz, president of content and chief creative officer, Paramount Media Networks & MTV Entertainment Studios. “It’s an honor to share their stories, and through the thoughtful lens of Nathaniel Lezra, show their extraordinary resilience in addressing their mental health, supporting their loved ones and finding hope for their futures.”

In addition, MTV is partnering with Choose Love “to empower viewers to support young people who have been impacted by the war in Ukraine.” Viewers are invited to learn more and take action by visiting ukraine.mtv.com .

“The film seeks to direct the world’s attention to a group of people too often lost in this war’s coverage – young refugees,” Lezra observed in a statement. “These are people who have spent much of their lives living in the shadow of war, and whose identities and mental landscapes have been indelibly impacted by Russia’s aggression. It was the honor of a lifetime to spend time with these inspiring and extraordinarily resilient young people and I’m grateful to MTV for their partnership and shared commitment to telling their stories and encouraging more action to support them.”

Don’t Leave Me Behind: Stories of Young Ukrainian Survival is executive produced by Nina L. Diaz, Lily Neumeyer, Benjamin Hurvitz and Pamela A. Aguilar for MTV. Nathaniel Lezra directs and executive produces; Elizaveta Goroshnikova serves as creative producer, with Iuliia Stashevska as story producer, and Malcolm Bird as executive producer. The film’s logo was designed by Kateryna Gaidamaka, a designer and visual artist from Kyiv.