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EMERGENCY

May 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

EMERGENCY

EMERGENCY starts with Sean (RJ Cyler) and Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) attending a class called Blasphemy and Taboos, taught by a perky British woman who, after reminding her students that their syllabus contained a trigger warning about this class, confronts them with the n-word. Not just projecting it onto the classroom screen in huge letters,… Read More »

Tagged With: bacterial cultures, broken tail light, classism, college, moral center, racism, sexism, spring break, trigger word, white privilege

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

EQUITY — Meera Menon, Sarah Megan Thomas, and Alysia Reiner Interview

August 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

EQUITY — Meera Menon, Sarah Megan Thomas, and Alysia Reiner Interview

Gender equity is the inevitable topic of conversation when talking about EQUITY, a sharply observed and uncompromising examination of women on Wall Street in the 2010s. And so it was on July 15, 2016 when I talked with director Meera Menon, and co-stars/co-producers Alysia Reiner and Sarah Megan Thomas, who is also one of the… Read More »

Tagged With: affordable child care, ambition, chocolate chip cookies, ethics, Gender equality, investment banking, Mount Rainier, mountain climbing, photo rights, sexism, smiling, Wall Street

Stephen Winter Re-discovers JASON AND SHIRLEY

June 27, 2015 By 1 Comment

Stephen Winter Re-discovers JASON AND SHIRLEY

Click here to listen to the interview. When Shirley Clarke made PORTRAIT OF JASON, she was doing more than exercising her creative impulse. The Oscar™-winning director had been all but shut out of Hollywood, and returned to New York to pursue a career as an indie filmmaker rather than deal with being marginalized by the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, African-American, Alan Ginsberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Canada Lee, Carl Lee, cinema, civil rights, director, film, gay, Gus Van Sant, homophobia, Howl, interview, Jack Waters, James Baldwin, James Tobak, Jason Holliday, LGBT, Marion Crane, Miles Davis, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, narrative, New York City, Orson Welles, PARIS IS BURNING, PORTRAIT OF JASON, PSYCHO, racism, River Phoenix, ruthlessness, Sarah Shulman, sexism, Shirley Clark, Stephen Winter, THE TRIAL

SANDSTORM (BAWANDAR)

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Jag Mundhra’s SANDSTORM succeeds on several levels. First, it’s a fine piece of filmmaking that tells this story of cultural discrimination with a directness that never panders to either its audience or its characters. Second, it succeeds in outlining in stark and uncompromisingly personal terms exactly what this sort of injustice means for one woman… Read More »

Tagged With: andrea chase, caste, classism, elitism, Jaipur, NGO, Rajistan, rape, review, sexism

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