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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

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

GHOST TOWN TO HAVANA — Coach Roscoe Bryant and Filmmaker Eugene Corr

October 27, 2015 By Leave a Comment

GHOST TOWN TO HAVANA — Coach Roscoe Bryant and Filmmaker Eugene Corr

Coach Roscoe Bryant was inspired to start the Royals baseball team in his adopted town of Oakland when a young man died in his arms. Conceived as a way to help at-risk youth discover their own potential, Coach Roscoe has also made it a way for these kids to also discover a world, and a… Read More »

Tagged With: Baseball, building character, Café con Leche League, Cuba, Eugene Corr, farm teams, Havana, income inequality, mentor, Roscoe Bryant, Royals, social justice

Peter Mullan Avenges THE MAGDALENE SISTERS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Peter Mullan Avenges THE MAGDALENE SISTERS

Peter Mullan is a man of strong opinions and serious politics. And so it is no surprise that the story of the Magdalene girls, imprisoned in convents sometimes for the rest of their lives with no recourse or chance of appeal, would appeal to his sense of outrage and craving for social justice. When I spoke with him on… Read More »

Tagged With: Catholic Church, convent, history, indie filmmaking, Inquisition, Ireland, KGB, Magdalene girls, nuns, social justice, unwed mother

Deepa Mehta Sails WATER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Deepa Mehta Sails WATER

When I talked with Deepa Mehta on March 20, 2006, it was the third time I’d had the chance to interview this remarkable filmmaker. A magnet and a catalyst for controversy, she makes films that challenge not just society in her native India, but also the ones elsewhere that tolerate intolerance in the name of tradition. WATER, the third… Read More »

Tagged With: burning in effigy, children, cinema, controversy, Deepa Mehta, drama, Elements Trilogy, gender discrimination, gender rights, India, Indian Cinema, intolerance, movie, narrative, social justice, trilogy, widowhood, widows

Connie Field Asks HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG? APARTHEID AND THE CLUB OF THE WEST

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Connie Field Asks HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG? APARTHEID AND THE CLUB OF THE WEST

Connie Field started from scratch in putting together her six-part documentary, HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG. Undaunted, she set about assembling an archive of first-person narratives about apartheid at home and abroad in South Africa. When we spoke on October 30, 2007, she discussed how the 2000+ hours of interviews and footage would be made available to scholars,… Read More »

Tagged With: Africa, African history, apartheid, boycott, Connie Field, documentary, Johannesburg, mini-series, oral history, PBS, racism, social justice, South Africa, witness to history, world history

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