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REFUGE — Din Blankenship Interview

March 25, 2023 By Leave a Comment

REFUGE — Din Blankenship Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Clarkston, GA has been the most diverse square mile in America, and that was the original focus of REFUGE, the documentary Din Blankenship and Erin Levin Bernhardt had planned to make. For several decades it has been where refugees from all over the world have been settled by… Read More »

Tagged With: 9/11, adoption, birth mothers, Chris Buckley, Clarkston, extremism, Georgia, hate groups, Heval Kelli, jihadists, KKK, Kurd, Myanmar, parents4peace, pre-conceived notion, prejudice, radical acceptance, redemption, Refugees, Syria, the twelve steps

FRANCESCO

March 26, 2021 By Leave a Comment

FRANCESCO

Click  here to listen to the flashback interview with Evgeny Afineevsky for CRIES FROM SYRIA. FRANCESCO can be classified as a hagiography of Pope Frances. Certainly, what Evgeny Afineevsky shows us of His Holiness is a man of great faith and great, notably ecumenical, compassion. Even when Frances makes a blunder about the sexual abuse… Read More »

Tagged With: clerical sexual abuse, climate change, climate crisis, LGBTQ, papacy, pope, Refugees, social justice, Vatican

NEWS OF THE WORLD

December 22, 2020 By 1 Comment

NEWS OF THE WORLD

NEWS OF THE WORLD is a somber and sober tale of post-Civil War Texas with few surprises as it wends its way through the mythos of the Old West, unfolding as it does as a metaphor. Or is it an allegory? Perhaps a microcosm of the world’s ills, both then and now? All those elements… Read More »

Tagged With: Civil War, Confederate, Kiowa, Native-American, occupation, Reconstruction, Refugees, Texas, western

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

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

CRIES FROM SYRIA — Evgeny Afineevsky Interiview

March 27, 2017 By Leave a Comment

CRIES FROM SYRIA — Evgeny Afineevsky Interiview

CRIES FROM SYRIA had already made its HBO debut when I spoke with Evgeny Afineevsky on March 16, 2017. He was in San Francisco, though, to do a Q&A after a screening here. Afineevsky is a garrulous, upbeat man, quick with a smile and a hug, but when he talks about the dangers of American… Read More »

Tagged With: Aleppo, Arab Spring, Assad, chemical weapons, defining terms, Elan Kurdi, enemy of the people, Free Speech, HBO, intelligence agencies, ISIS, Jahan Square, Kholoud Helmi, killing children, protest, Putin, Refugees, Russia, Syria, Syrian Revolution, torture, torturing children, Trump, Ukraine

FIRE AT SEA (Fuocoammare) — Gianfranco Rosi Interview

December 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment

FIRE AT SEA  (Fuocoammare) — Gianfranco Rosi Interview

Gianfranco Rosi had intended to make a 10-minute film about the refugees who find themselves on the island of Lampedusa, but once there, he quickly decided that the complexity of the situation demanded more. Hence FIRE AT SEA, short-listed for an Oscar™ and otherwise garnering praise for its sensitive, incisive look at how refugees and… Read More »

Tagged With: Africa, Italy, Lampedusa, Libya, Mediterranean, Operation Mare Nostrum, Refugees, sea rescue, Syria, turkey

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