From the very pantheon of stop-motion animation, Mexico has recently released its first-ever independently made feature film. I am Frankelda is a gothic fantasy musical which is now available on ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

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Oscar-nominated novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi at the Rome International Film Festival in November 2012. Tiziana Fabi/AFP Marjane Satrapi achieved something rare: she made Iran understandable.

It was the year 2008, I was hunched over the family computer with an external hard drive the size of a brick plugged in, carrying the latest haul of illegally downloaded movies my brother ferried for ...

French-Iranian artist, writer and director best known for her graphic novel Persepolis that was later turned into a film The French-Iranian artist, writer and film director Marjane Satrapi, who has ...

She died of sadness, her close ones reported. Marjane Satrapi had spent her entire working life insisting that sentiment was not the opposite of seriousness – that love, properly understood, was a ...

Marjane Satrapi, best known for her memoir and film Persepolis, has died, aged 56. The death of this much loved Iranian–French artist, graphic novelist, film-maker and activist has been met with ...

Satrapi's autobiographical novel was born from her experiences of Iran's Islamic revolution and war with Iraq.