Sean Lawrence

April 07, 2014 LITTLE BALLERS In addition to our  Jury Award winners , announced on Saturday, the Atlanta Film Festival also awards one feature film and one short film with an Audience Award every year. Festival-goers received a ballot at each screening and rated each film according to personal preference. The Audience Award winning feature film is Crystal McCrary's  Little Ballers . The film screened Saturday, March 29 to a packed out audience in The Plaza Theatre's Chipotle Auditorium. Jonathan Rej's  Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse  is the Audience Award winning short film. The hugely popular local film screened in the Other Worlds shorts block on Sunday, March 30 and again during an encore presentation on Sunday, April 6. Congratulations to the winners and to every film selected to play at this year's festival.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-chinese-servers-seen-as-spy-peril.html?_r=0 WASHINGTON — American officials have long considered Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, a security threat, blocking it from business deals in the United States for fear that the company would create "back doors" in its equipment that could allow the Chinese military or Beijing-backed hackers to steal corporate and government secrets. But even as the United States made a public case about the dangers of buying from Huawei, classified documents show that the National Security Agency was creating its own back doors — directly into Huawei’s networks. The agency pried its way into the servers in Huawei’s sealed headquarters in Shenzhen, China’s industrial heart, according to N.S.A. documents provided by the former contractor Edward J. Snowden. It obtained information about the workings of the giant routers and complex digital switches that Huawei boasts co...