by Jessica Mosby – USA – The world’s weather is changing and millions of people will be displaced. This tragic reality is captured in the new documentary film, Climate Refugees. Without engaging in the divisive global warming debate, director and…
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Climate Refugees: The Human Toll of a Changing Planet
Tagged with: alternative energy, Arts & Culture, climate change, Environment, Films & Documentaries, interview, Michael Nash, Politics, Refugees
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Interview with Howl film directors Epstein and Friedman: “Allen Ginsberg’s Poetic Prophecy”
by Vera von Kreutzbruck – Germany – Howl, a biopic centered on beatnik Allen Ginsberg’s seminal poem and the resulting obscenity trial, was the most moving and intellectually engaging film presented at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. In the…
Tagged with: Allen Ginsberg, Arts & Culture, beat poetry, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale, Films & Documentaries, Homosexuality, Howl, interview, James Franco, LGBT, Poetry
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
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If There is Something to Desire:Interview with Russian Poet Vera Pavlova
by Anna Clark – USA – Why is the word yes so brief? It should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, interview, Language, poem, Poetry, Russia, translation, Vera Pavlova
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Proceed and Be Bold: Director Laura Zinger and Subject Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. on Art, Life, and Independent Filmmaking
by Jessica Mosby – USA – Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. is living the dream. After discovering his love of letterpress, Kennedy left his comfortable corporate job and devoted his life to his art. Today the self-described “humble negro printer” lives…
Tagged with: Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Arts & Culture, Films & Documentaries, independent film, interview, letterpress, San Francisco, Stacy Simcik, United States
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Tapestries of Hope: Director Michealene Cristini Risley on the Tenacity and Optimism of Zimbabwe’s Rape Survivors
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…
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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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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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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According to Harold Bloom, “What we are seeing is…the fall of America”
by Eva Sohlman – Sweden – Harold Bloom, Yale literature professor and cultural critic, is one of America’s most prominent and provocative intellectuals. Unabashedly, he has always spoken up for what he calls “the fight for truth and beauty” making…
Tagged with: Education, George Bush, Harold Bloom, interview, Iraq War, Media, Politics, United States
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
