DOUEN II is a 2025 short folklore horror film written and directed by Alyscia Cunningham. Produced by Her House Media. Drawing from Trinidad and Tobago folklore, DOUEN II explores the supernatural legend of the douen.
The story follows Sania, a young girl helping her aunt Sybil bake traditional Trinidadian bread. As Sybil recounts tales of mischievous spirits and forest protectors, a douen—a mysterious childlike spirit with backward feet and no face—appears, making Sania question whether old stories hold darker truths.
The film stars Kike Ayodeji, Diann Marshall, Clyne Ever, and Shaiday Dancy, and features music by Calypso Rose.
The story follows Sania, a young girl helping her aunt Sybil bake traditional Trinidadian bread. As Sybil recounts tales of mischievous spirits and forest protectors, a douen—a mysterious childlike spirit with backward feet and no face—appears, making Sania question whether old stories hold darker truths.
The film stars Kike Ayodeji, Diann Marshall, Clyne Ever, and Shaiday Dancy, and features music by Calypso Rose.
Singa is a Finnish karaoke streaming service founded in 2015 and headquartered in Helsinki. The platform provides on-demand access to a large catalog of licensed karaoke tracks for both individual users and commercial venues.
The company aims to modernize the karaoke experience by providing a digital solution for both consumers and businesses, offering access to a vast library of licensed karaoke tracks across various devices, similar to how Spotify transformed music consumption.
History
Singa was founded in Helsinki in 2015 by Atte Hujanen and Tomi Pajunen. The company launched with the goal of bringing karaoke into the digital era, offering a user-friendly streaming platform akin to how Spotify modernized music listening.
In June 2017, Singa secured €1.75 million in seed funding led by Initial Capital, with participation from Superhero Capital and Reaktor Ventures.
In June 2025, Singa announced a licensing agreement with Warner Music Group, granting access to original master recordings from the label's extensive catalog.
This partnership expands Singa's karaoke song catalogue beyond soundalike recordings and enables users to perform using authentic backing tracks from artists.
Features and services
Singa is available via web browsers, iOS and Android smart phones, tablets, Android TV and Apple TV , allowing users to sing karaoke at home, on the go, or in social settings. Its key features include:
* A catalog of over 120,000 songs across multiple genres and languages
* Pitch control and guide vocals
* Remote control and smart queue functionality for parties
For commercial use, Singa offers Singa Business Pro and Singa Business Lite, which provide full-featured karaoke solutions for bars, restaurants, and hospitality venues.
Global Reach
As of 2025, Singa is available in 34 countries. It supports over 2,000 business venues and has more than 2 million registered users globally.
The company aims to modernize the karaoke experience by providing a digital solution for both consumers and businesses, offering access to a vast library of licensed karaoke tracks across various devices, similar to how Spotify transformed music consumption.
History
Singa was founded in Helsinki in 2015 by Atte Hujanen and Tomi Pajunen. The company launched with the goal of bringing karaoke into the digital era, offering a user-friendly streaming platform akin to how Spotify modernized music listening.
In June 2017, Singa secured €1.75 million in seed funding led by Initial Capital, with participation from Superhero Capital and Reaktor Ventures.
In June 2025, Singa announced a licensing agreement with Warner Music Group, granting access to original master recordings from the label's extensive catalog.
This partnership expands Singa's karaoke song catalogue beyond soundalike recordings and enables users to perform using authentic backing tracks from artists.
Features and services
Singa is available via web browsers, iOS and Android smart phones, tablets, Android TV and Apple TV , allowing users to sing karaoke at home, on the go, or in social settings. Its key features include:
* A catalog of over 120,000 songs across multiple genres and languages
* Pitch control and guide vocals
* Remote control and smart queue functionality for parties
For commercial use, Singa offers Singa Business Pro and Singa Business Lite, which provide full-featured karaoke solutions for bars, restaurants, and hospitality venues.
Global Reach
As of 2025, Singa is available in 34 countries. It supports over 2,000 business venues and has more than 2 million registered users globally.
The Tehran Monolingual Corpus (TMC) is a large-scale Persian monolingual corpus. TMC is suited for Language Modeling and relevant research areas in Natural Language Processing.
The corpus is extracted from Hamshahri Corpus and ISNA news agency website. The quality of Hamshahri corpus is improved for language modeling purpose by a series of tokenization and spell-checking steps.
TMC comprises more than 250 million words. The total number of unique words (with frequency of two or more) of the corpus is about 300 thousand, which is relatively good for a highly-inflectional language like Persian.
TMC is created by Natural Language Processing Lab of University of Tehran. The corpus is free for research use, after obtaining permission from the corpus aggregator.
The corpus is extracted from Hamshahri Corpus and ISNA news agency website. The quality of Hamshahri corpus is improved for language modeling purpose by a series of tokenization and spell-checking steps.
TMC comprises more than 250 million words. The total number of unique words (with frequency of two or more) of the corpus is about 300 thousand, which is relatively good for a highly-inflectional language like Persian.
TMC is created by Natural Language Processing Lab of University of Tehran. The corpus is free for research use, after obtaining permission from the corpus aggregator.
White is an upcoming multi-language international thriller film directed by Montoo Bassi and produced by Siddharth Anand's Marflix Pictures and Mahaveer Jain Films. The film stars Vikrant Massey as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and revolves around the story of how Colombia's brutal 52-year-long civil war was resolved--a largely untold chapter of modern peace-building.
Plot
The film is described as a "global thriller" that explores the impact of Indian spiritual philosophy on global peace-building. It highlights how ancient wisdom, particularly Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's teachings, contributed to brokering peace in a country still healing from a brutal conflict. The story is presented as an untold chapter of modern peace-building, emphasizing the positive impact of spiritual guidance and non-violent dialogue.
Cast
* Vikrant Massey
* Jaideep Ahlawat
* Nikita Dutta
Production
The pre-production of the film is underway in Columbia. The film is being produced by Marflix Pictures and Mahaveer Jain Films. The makers intend to bring in an international cast and crew from LA.
Release
The film will begin shooting in July 2025 and is set to be released in 2026.
Plot
The film is described as a "global thriller" that explores the impact of Indian spiritual philosophy on global peace-building. It highlights how ancient wisdom, particularly Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's teachings, contributed to brokering peace in a country still healing from a brutal conflict. The story is presented as an untold chapter of modern peace-building, emphasizing the positive impact of spiritual guidance and non-violent dialogue.
Cast
* Vikrant Massey
* Jaideep Ahlawat
* Nikita Dutta
Production
The pre-production of the film is underway in Columbia. The film is being produced by Marflix Pictures and Mahaveer Jain Films. The makers intend to bring in an international cast and crew from LA.
Release
The film will begin shooting in July 2025 and is set to be released in 2026.