#LivingHeritage exists because people keep it alive.

Across all regions, bearers, practitioners, civil society organisations, cultural and academic institutions and national and local authorities are working together to safeguard, transmit and celebrate living heritage.

Today, 185 countries are parties to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Its Lists and Register now include 849 elements, including more than 100 multinational elements involving 117 countries.

Passed down from generation to generation, these traditions and practices provide communities with a sense of continuity and belonging.

On the International Day of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO recognises and celebrates the living heritage present in our communities and beyond: the knowledge, practices, craftsmanship, foodways, rituals, performing arts and social customs that connect people across generations and cultures.

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In partnership with the United Nations, Champion Fund Nation is taking steps to create The United Nations TRADITION Show to promote cultures and traditions from around the globe in the United States.

Champion Fund Nation aims to produce this show to highlight elements of participating countries including the folk arts, dance, poetry, music, food, products and services, tourism, product manufacturing, development opportunities, and history.

Our crowdfunding goal is $150,000 with funds going toward assembling this show with a Red Carpet VIP Lounge where individuals can meet and interact with diplomats and notable figures from around the world.

Advertising in a memorial program will be offered to all business associated each year’s country origin represented with the event being captured and edited by MGM. Branch productions.

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Press By: Peter Duczyn for Champion News — Hollywood Premiere Film “Day Labor”

Film Synopsis: An ordinary working day turns into a fight for survival when an American war vet seeking work as a day worker is mistakenly dropped off at a private ranch in Texas only to be hunted for sport by a group of angry locals.

Branch Productions was in Beverly Hills, premiere on the balmy evening of Tuesday, March 7, to attend the premiere of “Day Labor”. Branch Productions CEO Gaston Mantero was there in person to tread the red carpet and mingle and take in some of that famous Hollywood film glitz. Around 250 people, including many actors and crew members, attended the premiere at the Lumiere Theater on Wilshire.

“Day Labor” tackles the thorny topic of migration and illegal workers in the US through the resentful eyes of local vigilantes who feel that foreigners are encroaching on their livelihoods and the American way of life. In short, a group of day workers, mostly from South America, hunting for work actually become the hunted. We learn that the vigilantes have targeted (and killed) many illegal workers before.

The film is well scripted and acted and draws our attention to the topic of migrant workers, many undocumented, who simply disappear every year, never to be seen or heard of again. There are said to be thousands of such people.

As actor Gary Cairns, who plays Lucas Bernard, one of the bad guys, told Branch Productions: “the film looks at the issue of immigration and work at a micro level, in detail.” The film does not provide any answers but it certainly makes the viewer think by posing some relevant questions.

Though “Day Labor” is clearly set in the US, most of the filming was actually done in Mexico in the Covid-19 years of 2021-22. Cast members revealed in a post-film Q and A session that the conditions in which they had to work actually brought them together and, ultimately, helped them to bond. Character actor Kevin Gage and Corin Nemec, both of whom play bad guys, are two well-known faces who can be seen in this film.

Branch Productions Verdict: 7 1/2 out of 10. Pacey, good action, well edited, but film would have been better if shortened by 10 minutes.