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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

DEFENDER — Jeff Adachi Interview

April 14, 2017 By Leave a Comment

DEFENDER — Jeff Adachi Interview

Jeff Adachi has devoted his professional life to public service, serving as a public defender for 32 years, the last 15 of which in the top elected spot in the public defender’s office. Somehow he has also managed to carve out a sideline as a filmmaker, making documentaries that examine racial issues in our culture… Read More »

Tagged With: BART police, Black Lives Matter, criminal justice system, immigration court, implicit bias, Japanese internment, Public defender, racism, San Francisco, scapegoat, travel ban

W. Kamau Bell Loves THE LAST DRAGON and You Should, Too.

December 17, 2015 By Leave a Comment

W. Kamau Bell Loves THE LAST DRAGON and You Should, Too.

W. Kamau Bell, comedian, podcaster, broadcaster, writer, host of the late-lamented Totally Biased, and soon to be co-host of CNN’s United Shades of America, has proven himself a savvy connoisseur of cinema. Aside from the obvious entertainment value of a film, he is a student, and a fan, of the subtext of films that might… Read More »

Tagged With: Berry Gordy, Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, Comic Con, Donald Trump, KALW, media representation, Motown, nerd culture, Republican Presidential Candidate Debate, Taimak, THE LAST DRAGON, Totally Biased, United Shades of America, Vanity

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION — Stanley Nelson

October 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION — Stanley Nelson

When Stanley Nelson started working on THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION, it was seven years ago and he thought the history of that movement was particularly relevant to those times. In 2015, he thinks it’s even more relevant. When I spoke to him on October 1, 2015, the echoes of the Panther movement in… Read More »

Tagged With: 10 point program, 1960s, 1970s, American history, Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, Bobby Seale, Civil Rights Movement, COINTELPRO, dignity, Erica Huggins, FBI, Huey Newton, J. Edgar Hoover, Los Angeles, MacArthur Genius, Martin Luther King, New York, Oakland, open-carry, police brutality, Ralph Abernathy, revolution, San Francisco, Second Amendment, self-defense, Stanley Nelson

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