Birmingham charity Suited for Success have reached the finals of the National Lottery Awards

Unemployment charity Suited for Success reaches finals of National Lottery Awards

Birmingham charity Suited for Success, which helps unemployed men and women find suitable interview outfits, is appealing for votes after reaching the finals of the National Lottery Awards – the annual search for the UK’s favourite National Lottery-funded projects. The charity is competing in the Best Education Project category. The project beat off stiff competition from over…

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'Tomb Raider' and 'City of Tiny Lights' actor Antonio Aakeel will be attending a screening in Birmingham to promote new film 'Eaten by Lions'

Antonio Aakeel heads home for Eaten By Lions premiere at Birmingham Indian Film Festival

We started the year with highlighting ten of the city’s rising stars for 2018, and featured prominently on the list was Wolverhampton-born actor Antonio Aakeel. The promising young talent from Wolves – now based between Birmingham and London – Antonio’s inclusion was on the merit of the number of incredibly intense and striking roles he had been racking up in the last…

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REVIEW: Love Sonia

Love Sonia is a hard-hitting, harrowing film that succinctly highlights the untold story of young girls who are sexually trafficked internationally and their journey from innocence to desolation. The film follows the story of Sonia (Mrunal Thakur) and Preeti (Riya Sisodiya) as two sisters who are daughters of a desperately poor farmer in the desert-like outskirts…

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'Love Sonia' star Mrunal Thakur poses on the red carpet at Cineworld in Broad Street for the launch of the Birmingham Indian Film Festival

50 photos from the Birmingham Indian Film Festival launch

The Birmingham Indian Film Festival (BIFF) launched at Cineworld in Broad Street on Friday, initiating ten days of twenty independent South Asian movies across five different venues. Screening special preview films, premieres and discussion panels supported by Film Birmingham and Birmingham City University will be offering rare glimpses into some of the billion plus lives in…

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