The award is the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film’s highest recognition.
It’s official: the monkey is finally off the collective back of the Midlakes wrestling team.
The blinding glare of whipping red lights lit the quiet streets of Clifton Springs and the frightening scream of fire engine whistles signaled the history had just been carved out by the Screaming Eagle grapplers.
Get a recap of Friday's high school sports action as Alec Doche drains a 3-pointer with 5 seconds left in the game to lift Fairport to a win over Irondequoit in boys basketball.
Filmmaker and Pittsford resident Mara Ahmed has always been fascinated with the differences between people, but never in the divisive sense. Instead, through her filmmaking, she has been working actively to reconcile those differences and demonstrate how they ultimately make us one human race. Her first film, a documentary titled “The Muslims I Know,” is one example of her striving toward that goal. In that film, she chronicles the lives of Muslims living in the greater Rochester area, presenting them as everyday people first, Rochester residents second and everything else afterwards.
It is with that goal of reconciliation in mind that Mara Ahmed began producing her third film, an as-yet-untitled documentary about a particularly tumultuous time in the history of South Asia: the British post-colonial partition of the Indian subcontinent into the modern-day nations of Pakistan and India. Ahmed’s mother’s family, which originally hailed from India, is one of many sources of stories cited in the film, all of which center around the bitter divisions that arose as a result of the partition, in spite of the coexistence that preceded it.
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The women in our lung cancer support group at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, Mass., encouraged me to write this piece, because whether we are facing the despair of life with terminal lung cancer, in the midst of treatment or forever grateful for having survived, we share a common bond - the desire to put an end to lung cancer’s dismal prognosis. We want change. We need your help.
