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HOW TO SURVIVE A PANDEMIC — David France Interview

May 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

HOW TO SURVIVE A PANDEMIC — David France Interview

Ten years ago, David France made the Oscar™-nominated HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE, a powerful documentary about the AIDS crisis, and the response by the actvist community to the inertia around finding a cure. When I spoke with France on March 28, 2022 about his latest documentary, HOW TO SURVIVE A PANDEMIC, I asked him… Read More »

Tagged With: activism, activist spirit, Anthony Fauci, AstraZeneca Trials, Black Lives Matter, Coronavirus, covid, Donald Trump, Dr. Adrian Hill, Jair Bolsonaro, journalism science, miracles, Operation Warp Speed, Oxford University, pandemic, Reverend Paul Abernathy, robotic camera, social justice movements, trump administration, Trumpism

DOLORES — Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt Interview

September 8, 2017 By 1 Comment

DOLORES  — Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt Interview

Dolores Huerta is a woman who revels in the victories she has won over the years, victories too numerous to list here. She is also a woman who, at 87, has not slowed down in her fight for what still needs to be done in her fight for social justice. The legend started as young… Read More »

Tagged With: activism, advocacy, Arizona public schools, chauvinism, DACA, economic justice, ethnic studies, Fred Ross, Harvey Milk, Heather Heyer, Phil Burton, racism, Robert Kennedy, sexism, social justice, Sr., Trump, United Farm Workers

AFTER LOUIE — Vincent Gagliostro Interview

June 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment

AFTER LOUIE — Vincent Gagliostro Interview

Vincent Gagliostro was an ideal person to ask my pop-quiz question during the second Frameline press day on June 23, 2017. The question was why arts are important in the age of Trump, and Gagliostro, whose film, AFTER LOUIE is the festival’s closing night film, is a man who has worked in many media, some… Read More »

Tagged With: activism, After Louie, AIDS, Allan Cumming, art, history, LGBTQI, protest, survivor's guilt, Vincent Gagliostro

HOOLIGAN SPARROW — Nanfu Wang Interview

January 12, 2017 By Leave a Comment

HOOLIGAN SPARROW — Nanfu Wang Interview

There is a difference between understanding that covering a human rights protest in China will be problematic, and actually experiencing the surveillance and intimidation that goes with that territory.  That’s one of the first things I talked about with Nanfu Wang, whose documentary, HOOLIGAN SPARROW, has been short-listed for this year’s Oscar ™.  It was… Read More »

Tagged With: activism, Ai Wei Wei, art installation, child prostitution, China, Hooligan Sparrow, human rights, Oscar short list, protest, schoolgirl rape, secret police, surveillance

Jeffrey D. Brown & Sushmita Mukherjee Talk How SOLD Changed Their Lives

April 15, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Jeffrey D. Brown & Sushmita Mukherjee Talk How SOLD Changed Their Lives

Director Jeffrey D. Brown and co-star Sushmita Mukherjee wanted to do more than make a film, they wanted to make a difference for the kids like the one depicted in SOLD. That’s why they have partnered with NGOs, and are aiming for more than a run-of-the-mill theatrical release. In that spirit, there are links to several of… Read More »

Tagged With: activism, Assam, book to screen, brothels, Calcutta, child sex trade, Dehli rape case. APNE AAP, economic status of women, Human trafficking, India, modern slavery, Nepal, NGO, Patricia McCormick, re-ensoulment, Ruchira Gupta, Sacred Feminine, Save the Children, sex slaves, spirituality, UN Commission on the Status of Women

HOWARD ZINN: YOU CAN’T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN

October 4, 2015 By Leave a Comment

HOWARD ZINN: YOU CAN’T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN

HOWARD ZINN: YOU CAN’T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN is a robust telling of the historian’s life and times that does the spirit of the man credit. First Run Feature has re-released the 2004 documentary with a plethora of bonus features, and were smart enough to realize that the only thing better than this… Read More »

Tagged With: activism, anti-war movement, civil rights, FBI, Howard Zinn, Martin Luther King, Matt Damon, politics, protest, Vietnam war

Sam Greene Monitors THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Sam Greene Monitors THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND

As a post-Baby Boomer, Sam Greene was barely alive when most of the events discussed in his documentary, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, occurred. Perhaps because he was able to come to the project without the emotions that colored that era that resulted in the balanced portrait he and partner Bill Siegel have created of those troubled… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, 9/11, activism, anti-war movement, Bill Siegal, controversy, funding, moral ambiguity, politics, protest, Sam Greene

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