Links to different counrties code of conduct and regulations information:
Ofcom
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/medlitpub/ukcode/ukcode.pdf
Ofcom is a site which offers information and advice on the entertainment industries rating system and it also offers information on the different laws and industry documents.
PEGI
http://www.pegionline.eu/en/index/id/media/pdf/197.pdf
PEGI rate a large number of entertainment products including video and computer games, it is used throughout Europe and has the support of the European Commission.
ESRB
http://www.esrb.org/index-js.jsp
A non-profit organisation who assign independant ratings for video games and help promote better online privacy within the interactive entertainment industry.
TIGRS
http://www.tigrs.org/
A self rating system for video games and entertainment products, they allow the developers to rate their own games and it is up to the developers to warn the audience about certain content, the games that use this system mainly include online internet games.
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Movie research
Into the west
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Director- Mike Newell
Born- 28 March 1942
Other movies directed-
The Awakening (1980)
Bad Blood (1981)
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
The Good Father (1985)
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
Enchanted April (1992)
Into the West (1992)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Pushing Tin (1999)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time (2010)
The Elfstones of Shannara (TBA)
Main Actors-
Gabriel Byrne
Ellen Barkin
Ruaidhri Conroy
Ciaran Fitzgerald
David Kelly
Movie Plot-
Into the West is a film about two young boys, Tito (Conroy) and Ossie (Fitzgerald), whose father (Byrne) was "King of the Travellers" until his wife, Mary, dies during the birth of their second son, Ossie. The boys' grandfather (David Kelly) is an old story-telling Traveller, who regales the children with Irish folk-tales and legends. When he is followed by a beautiful white horse called Tír na nÓg (meaning "Land of Eternal Youth" in Irish), from the sea to Dublin, where the boys and their father now live, the boys are overwhelmed with joy and the dreams of becoming cowboys. The horse is stolen from them and they begin their adventure to get their mystical horse back. They escape the poverty of a north Dublin council estate, and "Into the West" where they find that Tír na nÓg is not just any horse.
Director- Mike NewellBorn- 28 March 1942
Other movies directed-
The Awakening (1980)
Bad Blood (1981)
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
The Good Father (1985)
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
Enchanted April (1992)
Into the West (1992)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Pushing Tin (1999)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time (2010)
The Elfstones of Shannara (TBA)
Main Actors-
Gabriel Byrne
Ellen Barkin
Ruaidhri Conroy
Ciaran Fitzgerald
David Kelly
Movie Plot-
Into the West is a film about two young boys, Tito (Conroy) and Ossie (Fitzgerald), whose father (Byrne) was "King of the Travellers" until his wife, Mary, dies during the birth of their second son, Ossie. The boys' grandfather (David Kelly) is an old story-telling Traveller, who regales the children with Irish folk-tales and legends. When he is followed by a beautiful white horse called Tír na nÓg (meaning "Land of Eternal Youth" in Irish), from the sea to Dublin, where the boys and their father now live, the boys are overwhelmed with joy and the dreams of becoming cowboys. The horse is stolen from them and they begin their adventure to get their mystical horse back. They escape the poverty of a north Dublin council estate, and "Into the West" where they find that Tír na nÓg is not just any horse.
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