by Jessica Mosby – USA – The most striking element of the new documentary Tapestries of Hope is not the hell that the young rape survivors profiled have lived through, but their unbreakable spirit. The film is a vibrant international…
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Tapestries of Hope: Director Michealene Cristini Risley on the Tenacity and Optimism of Zimbabwe’s Rape Survivors
Tagged with: Africa, Arts & Culture, Betty Makoni, Children's Rights, Films & Documentaries, Girl Child Network, HIV/AIDS, interview, Michealene Cristini Risley, rape, Women's Rights, Zimbabwe
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Coming of Age in 1960s London: Interview with An Education‘s Director Lone Scherfig
by Jessica Mosby – USA – Post-war London is at its most enchanting in director Lone Scherfig’s new film, An Education. Nick Hornby’s clever screenplay, Scherfig’s apt direction and a talented star-studded cast that includes Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina, Peter…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, cinema, Films & Documentaries, interview, London, Scherfig, United Kingdom
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The Story of Stuff’s Annie Leonard Says “It’s so solvable”: 2009 Bioneers Conference Focuses on Solutions
by Kimberly N. Chase – USA – Walking through any one of America’s big cities, the wind may brush a candy bar wrapper across the street and giant bags of trash might choke the sidewalk. Some people think nothing of…
Tagged with: Conservation, Enviornment, Films & Documentaries, NGO's, Politics, Waste
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The World
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Crude: The Real Price of Oil – An Interview with Director Joe Berlinger
by Jessica Mosby – USA – Crude: The Real Price of Oil is outright sickening. Huge crude oil pits dot the landscape, natural waterways are so polluted that drinking the water causes cancer, and Ecuador’s indigenous communities’ entire way of…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, Berlinger, Chevron, Ecuador, Environment, Films & Documentaries, interview, Latin America, oil, Pollution
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Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
by Jessica Mosby – USA – Burma (also known as Myanmar) is a closed country, literally. Since the 1962 military coup, few outsiders have even entered the Southeast Asian country. News reports are scarce and often unreliable because the news…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, Asia, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Films & Documentaries, human rights, Myanmar, Rangoon, Southeast Asia, videojournalism
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From Denmark with Love:An Interview with Filmmaker Janus Metz
by Brittany Shoot – Denmark – Migrant communities in Denmark are a subject fraught with debate. As South Asian women increasingly immigrate to Scandinavia, stricter laws have been enacted to discourage the practice of convenience marriages. Rumors about abuse in…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, Denmark, filmmaker, Films & Documentaries, Immigration, interview, Marriage, Metz, migrants, sex trade, Thailand
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Interview with Polish Director Andrzej Wajda: An Elegy for Poland’s Painful Past
by Vera von Kreutzbruck – Germany – Andrzej Wajda was 13 years old when World War II broke out. Together with his mother he lived most of his life in the vain hope that his father might have survived the…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, Berlinale, Europe, Films & Documentaries, Interviews, Katyn Massacre, Poland, World War II
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
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The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
by Jessica Mosby – USA – “Rape has always been used as a weapon of war” is the opening line of the new documentary film The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. For 76 minutes the film exposes the incredibly…
Tagged with: Africa, Arts & Culture, Democratic Republic of Congo, Films & Documentaries, Gender Violence, Politics, rape, Sexual Violence, war crimes
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The 11th Hour: Only Governments Can Make the Big Changes Affecting the Environment, But There Are Still Lots of Real-World Solutions for the Average Joe!
by Jessica Mosby – USA – In an admirable effort to contribute to the dialogue on what to do to save the planet, Leonardo DiCaprio has recently released a documentary film, The 11th Hour, which he produced and narrates. However,…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, Environment, Films & Documentaries, Natural Resources, sustainability, United States
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Film Review – The Devil Came on Horseback: A US Marine Is Witness to Slaughter in Darfur
by Jessica Mosby – USA – The United Nations defines genocide as “acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” To date, some 200,000 people have been killed and…
Tagged with: Africa, Arts & Culture, Darfur, Films & Documentaries, genocide, Sudan, United States
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