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SETTLERS — Wyatt Rockefeller Interview

July 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

SETTLERS — Wyatt Rockefeller Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Wyatt Rockefeller knew from a very early age that his future was in filmmaking, but before making his feature-film directorial debut with SETTLERS, he took a detour into public service in the Obama administration. We got to that later in conversation with him on July 20, 2021. A… Read More »

Tagged With: gender, immigration, Mars

KNIVES OUT

November 28, 2019 By Leave a Comment

KNIVES OUT

KNIVES OUT takes a brisk pace with its cinematic legerdemain as its cast expertly calibrate their performances so that arch never strays into the certain disaster of becoming artificial. The result is a giddily entertaining, emotionally engaging film that sets a new standard for its genre, and, if there is any justice, will launch the Benoit Blanc franchise.

Tagged With: class system, gentleman detective, immigration, mystery, whodunit

ASK DR. RUTH — Ryan White Interview

May 21, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ASK DR. RUTH — Ryan White Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. One of the first things we see in ASK DR. RUTH is the subject of that documentary, the legendary Dr. Ruth Westheimer breaking the fourth wall to tell director, Ryan White, to call his mother. And while she is serious, she also has a twinkle in her eye. … Read More »

Tagged With: cable television, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Holocaust, immigration, sex therapy. sex education, Yad Vashem

HUMAN FLOW — Ai Wei Wei Interview

October 26, 2017 By Leave a Comment

HUMAN FLOW — Ai Wei Wei Interview

Ai Wei Wei is an artist and an activist who has combined both his callings into pieces and protests that can both be classified as provocative. His latest film, HUMAN FLOW, is an exquisitely filmed documentary in which Ai immerses himself into the lives of people displaced by war, repressive governments, disaster both economic and… Read More »

Tagged With: Ai Wei Wei, globalization, human rights, immigration, migrants, Refugees

Frameline 41: The Pop Quiz

July 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment

Frameline 41: The Pop Quiz

FRAMELINE 41 initiated a pair of press days for those of us covering the festival, and it offered me a rare opportunity to talk to many of the participating filmmakers while they were all gathered together in one place. The result was my inspiration to do a pop quiz with them, and the question I… Read More »

Tagged With: Allison Tate, Armistead Maupin, Art in the Time of Trump, Bill Weber, CAROL SUPPORT GROUP, Damon Cardasis, DATING MY MOTHER, Fawzia Mirza, film festival, Frameline, Frameline 41, Gail Friedkin, HOT TO TROT, immigration, Jennifer Kroot, JESUS IS DEAD, Julia Solomonoff, Legacy Bailey BOBBYANNA, LGBTQ, MAYBE TOMORROW, Mike Roma, Muslim Trump, NOBODY'S WATCHING, Pakistani-American, Philippines, Rudi Dolezal, Samantha Lee, SATURDAY CHURCH, SIGNATURE MOVE, THE UNTOLD TALES OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN, Victor Villanueava, WHITNEY: CAN I BE ME?

FINDING OSCAR — Ryan Suffern Interview

April 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment

FINDING OSCAR — Ryan Suffern Interview

For his documentary, FINDING OSCAR, Ryan Suffern started at the end, filming what would be almost the last shot of the story before realizing what a compelling, and timely, piece of history he was witnessing.  We talked about that during our conversation on April 20, 2017, but the first thing I asked him about was… Read More »

Tagged With: American foreign policy, Dos Erres, Efrain Rios Montt, exhumation, Fabio Pinzon, forensic anthropology, Frank Marshall, Fredy Peccerelli, genocide, Guatemala, Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, immigration, Refugees, Ronald Reagan, Sara Romero, Truth Commission

FOR HERE OR TO GO — Andrea Chase takes you Behind the Scenes of FOR HERE OR TO GO? — Rishi Bhilawadikar and Rucha Humnabadka Interview

April 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment

FOR HERE OR TO GO — Andrea Chase takes you Behind the Scenes of FOR HERE OR TO GO? — Rishi Bhilawadikar and Rucha Humnabadka Interview

Many years ago, I worked a hi-tech job in Silicon Valley, and though I worked side by side with people who had come there from India on work visas, I had no idea of the struggles with which these bright and talented people were dealing. FOR HERE OR TO GO? , though set in 2009,… Read More »

Tagged With: 9/11, bonded servants, Desi, diversity, globalization, green card, home, House of Representatives, immigration, indentured servitude, India, Jawaharlal Nehru, Silicon Valley

Demian Bichir and Chris Weitz make A BETTER LIFE

December 27, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Demian Bichir and Chris Weitz make A BETTER LIFE

When I spoke with Chris Weitz and Demian Bichir on November 1, 2011 about A BETTER LIFE, there was already a buzz about Bichir’s performance as an undocumented worker dreaming of a better life in the United States. It was also the second round of press tours for the duo, and that was the first… Read More »

Tagged With: East Los Angeles, father-son, immigration

CHILDREN OF MEN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CHILDREN OF MEN

In a here-and-now where the primacy of children is given ample lip service by proponents of any and all social issues, it is refreshing, and not a little thought-provoking, to see in Alfonso Cuaron’s CHILDREN OF MEN, based on the P.D. James novel of the same name, a world in which this is actually the case.… Read More »

Tagged With: Alfonso Cuaron, book to film, CHILDREN OF MEN, Clive Owen, dystopian future, immigration, infertility, Julianne Moore, Margaret Atwood, paranoia, pregnancy, Sci-fi, speculative fiction, terrorism

Gurinder Chadha Can BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Gurinder Chadha Can BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM

When I talked with Gurinder Chadha she was hoarse from talking non-stop about her world-wide hit at the 2003 San Francisco Asian American Film Festival where it had been the opening night film. That didn’t dampen her enthusiasm, which has been going strong for over a year ever since her little film became one of the top… Read More »

Tagged With: arranged marriage, casting relatives, director, gender, generation gap, immigration, screenwriter, sikh, soccer, traditional Sikh parents, women's sports

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