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Preview: Bronx International Film Festival

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Here’s another preview from one of the films featured in this weekend’s Bronx International Film Festival at Lehman College, which started last night and continues tonight and tomorrow evening. Visit www.bronxstage.com for tickets and information.This clip, from “A Joke,” by Andy Brown, is based on short story by Anton Chekov. It’ll screen tonight. Here’s a little synopsis from the Festival’s website:”Bryce and Nadia have been dating for about 3 months when Bryce decides to bring her to his favorite sledding hill. After a little persuasion, Nadia agrees to ride with him down the steepest slope on the hill.

Bronx News Network

Bronx News Roundup, June 18

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Bronx teens Rashawn Birthwright, 17, and Javon Maldonado, 17, were stabbed to death yesterday in two unrelated incidents. Maldonado died on the doorstep of the NYPD’s 41st Precinct station house in Hunts Point hours after Birthwright was stabbed on Gunther Avenue and died at Jacobi Medical Center. The Daily News has the story.12-year-old Bronx twins Jason and Corey Grant have started a Facebook-page campaign to persuade LeBron James to play for the New York Knicks. In four days, the site has tracked one million votes in support of LeBron’s switch.After giving birth three times with the help of Bronx midwives, New York state assemblywoman Amy Paulin is seeking to pass a bill that will afford other women a similar, though safer, experience. The bill would repeal the requirement that midwives have a “written practice agreement” with a doctor or hospital, thus allowing them to travel and still have access to doctors and medical facilities.”Reflections of a Heart,” a play about black soldiers who fought in World War II, depicts Isaac Woodard Jr.’s experience in the post-war Bronx.