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First Look at Bill Nighy in ‘A Town in Nova Scotia’

First Look at Bill Nighy in ‘A Town in Nova Scotia’

Published by Daniella Wilson

A first look at Babak Jalali‘s Billy Nighy-starring feature, A Town in Nova Scotia, has dropped ahead of Paradise City Sales launching worldwide sales at Cannes. His fifth film after presenting previous works in Locarno (Frontier Blues), Rotterdam (Radio Treams) and the Berlinale (Land), the Iranian director gained international recognition with Sundance’s Fremont. A Town in Nova Scotia is about a widowed Irish senior, Leon, played by the Love Actually star, who gets a plea from his daughter to join her in Nova Scotia. Instead, he launches a crusade to make his aging Liverpool building safer after news of a tower fire in London. On a mission alongside his neighbor and closest friend, Salah (Makram J Khoury), Leon turns their fellow residents’ quiet lives upside down in what is described as “a warm story of friendsip, stubbornness, and small acts of defiance.” The photo released Wednesday shows Nighy and Khoury riding a lakeside carousel. The film was co-written with Carolina Cavalli, who collaborated with Jalali on Fremont. Further creatives include production designer Paulina Rzeszowska, cinematographer …

Capacity building for biomanufacturing scale-up in Nova Scotia

Capacity building for biomanufacturing scale-up in Nova Scotia

Published by skeptic

The Verschuren Centre is filling the critical scale-up gap for vital biobased manufacturing companies to solve global challenges. Biomanufacturing, a broad term encompassing a range of green technologies including precision fermentation, presents a pivotal technology to address key global challenges of human and environmental health. Numerous reports estimate the future impact of biotechnology as replacing 60% of the world’s physical inputs and alleviating 45% of the world’s disease burden in the next 20 years. This represents a market value in the trillions of dollars for companies targeting sustainable solutions for the future. Biomanufacturing takes advantage of rapid advances in genetic engineering to create virtually any intermediary product that is otherwise typically derived from petrochemicals, and, as such, has huge potential to impact the country’s path to a net zero manufacturing future. Often referred to as the internet of the future, the potential product array seems infinite and will impact almost every aspect of our daily lives. The bridge to success To accelerate deployment of this green supply chain of intermediaries and functional materials, key capital-intensive …