Edisi 28 April 2016 | International Bali Post

Page 1

I N T E R N A T I O N A L

I N T E R N A T I O N A L

16 Pages Number 93 7th year Price: Rp 3.000,-

Entertainment

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Winehouse family criticizes ‘misleading’ movie about singer

WEATHER FORECAST Dps

23 - 32

e-mail: info_ibp@balipost.co.id online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Expats try phones, social apps to connect to quake-hit Nepal

Madrid wins 4-2 thriller at Celta to stay in title hunt

Firebrand, survivor face off in UK’s wildest election race

Page 6

Page 8

Page 13

LONDON — The family of Amy Winehouse has criticized a documentary about the late singer that is due to have its premiere at next month’s Cannes Film Festival.

AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File

A statement issued Sunday by family spokesman Chris Goodman said director Asif Kapadia’s “Amy” is “misleading and contains some basic untruths.” The statement said the film suggested family members did too little to help the singer, who died in July 2011 at age 27 of accidental alcohol poisoning. The soul diva, whose 2006 album “Back to Black” won five Grammy Awards, had battled drug and alcohol abuse for years. The family statement said the movie did not reflect the “huge effort from all concerned to help Amy at all stages.” “Fundamentally, the Winehouse family believes that the film does a disservice to individuals and families suffering from

the complicated affliction of addiction,” it said. The filmmakers said in a statement that they began work with “total objectivity” and the support of the Winehouse family. They said the documentary was the result of interviews with about 100 people who knew the singer, including “friends, family, former partners and members of the music industry that worked with her.” Kapadia won wide acclaim with “Senna,” a documentary about the late motor racing champion Ayrton Senna. “Amy” is due to screen out of competition at the May 13-24 Cannes festival. (ap)

Salma Hayek visits Lebanon to launch film ‘The Prophet’ BCHARRE, Lebanon — Salma Hayek is in Lebanon, her first visit to her ancestral homeland, to launch “The Prophet,” an animated feature film she co-produced. Hayek visited the picturesque mountain village of Bcharre in northern Lebanon on Sunday to pay homage to Khalil Gibran, the Lebaneseborn poet who wrote “The Prophet,” the book on which the film is based. “Let us have a private moment in this place that we dreamt so long to be a part of,” Hayek said before entering the Gibran Museum. “The Prophet,” written in 1923, has inspired generations of artists. The book, a series of poems about love, joy, sorrow, work and spirituality, has been translated into at least 40 languages. Gibran also was a sculptor and a painter influenced by the English Romantics. He migrated to the United States in the late 1890s, dying there in 1931. Hayek posed with one of Gibran’s towering sculptures outside the museum

and dipped her feet in nearby mountain spring waters before visiting his tomb and viewing his work. “The Prophet” director Roger Allers, who also directed Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King,” accompanied Hayek. The film tells the story of a friendship between a young girl and an imprisoned poet. Quoting from Gibran’s book, Allers said: “’Work is love made visible.’ And I really feel that about this movie.” The film premieres April 30 in Lebanon. Distributor Mohammed Fadallah said it will be showing in 20 theaters here before going to the Gulf region and North Africa. (ap)

Hundred photographers flock to Jembarana buffalo race

Mexican and American Salma Hayek sits in front of a statue of LebaneseAmerican poet Khalil Gibran during her visit to his museum in the northeast mountain town of Bcharre, Lebanon, Sunday, April 26, 2015.

IBP/Wayan Sumatika

The mud field buffalo race is becoming more widely known to the general public as evidenced by the increasing number of visitors coming to watch the rare spectacle.

AP Photo/Bilal Hussein

NEGARA - Long ago, the agrarian society of Jembrana, created the makepung lampit or mud field buffalo race, a tradition which is unique to this area. The mud field buffalo race is becoming more widely known to the general public as evidenced by the increasing number of visitors coming to watch the rare spectacle. Last Sunday (Apr. 26) at Peh, Kaliakah village, more than a hundred photographers from various regions of Indonesia and overseas, deliberately came to hunt buffalo racing shots in the rice fields. Deputy Regent of Jembrana, I Made Kembang Hartawan, who was present in the midst of the spectators, confirmed that the tradition of mud field buffalo racing only exists in Jembrana. For this

reason representative of Jembrana invited photographers to document this unique tradition and share information about it with the world. A group of young Jembranese have coalesced in the KFJ Jembrana

Photographers Community, which seeks to preserve and promote this tradition. “It cannot be found at any other places. In Borneo, they do run buffalo, but the animals are free to run where they want and the purpose is to see if they can run in a straight line as these are the buffalo that will then be sold. In Madura there is a race but they use cows. Thus, this kind of buffalo race can only be found in Jembrana, and this tradition still survives to this day,” said Kembang Hartawan, who also serves as adviser to the Jembrana Photographers Community (KFJ). Jembrana regency hopes that the

event can continue into the future and be included in a tour package that would entice photographers and foreign travelers to stay in Jembrana. “To make it sustainable, we will be holding regular scheduled buffalo races that will be part of a package that includes the community of photographers and other cultural aspects of Jembrana,” he added. In contrast to the other buffalo races, this makepung lampit does not have a chariot attached to the animal but instead uses a lampit - a tool used by farmers for flattening the soil of paddy fields before

planting rice. The mud field buffalo race of Jembrana is a long standing tradition of this agrarian society and although other area may have held similar races in the past, Jembrana is the only place where it still practiced. (olo) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.