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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

THE CAVE — Feras Fayyad Interview

January 13, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE CAVE — Feras Fayyad Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. When I spoke with Feras Fayyad on 0ctober 7, 2019, I started with whether or not the Syrian filmmaker had had any trouble getting into the United States. An irony in retrospect considering the difficulties he is currently encountering entering the United States (sign the petition to allow… Read More »

Tagged With: al Ghouti, bombing, chemical weapons, pediatrician, Syria, war crimes

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

THEO WHO LIVED — David Schisgall Interview

December 19, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THEO WHO LIVED — David Schisgall Interview

THEO WHO LIVED is a story of the remarkable empathy its subject, American journalist Theo Padnos, found for the captors who tortured him after being kidnapped in Syria in 2012.  David Schisgall’s sensitive, heart-wrenching documentary about Theo, like Theo himself, finds the humanity in everyone. Preferring to see people as individuals rather than stereotypes, it’s… Read More »

Tagged With: Al Qaeda, documentary, empathy, Evil Empire, FBI, hostage, ISIS, James Foley, Political kidnapping, Syria, terrorism, turkey

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

Sandra Bagaria Unveils A GAY GIRL IN DAMASCUS: THE AMINA PROFILE

July 24, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Sandra Bagaria Unveils A GAY GIRL IN DAMASCUS: THE AMINA PROFILE

Sandra Bagaria was not raised to be a victim, and so when her online with a woman blogger named Amina half a world away took an emotionally wrenching turn, the last thing she wanted to do was walk away.

Tagged With: Amina, Arab Spring, blogging, closure, Damascus, deception, documentary, EFF, Egypt, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Intifada, internet, internet security, Lebanon, LGBT, marriage equality, media, Middle East, Mossad, Online dating, Palestine, politics, same-sex marriage, Sandra Bagaria, Supreme Court, Syria, The Guardian, virtual relationships, Washington Post

The E-TEAM Talks

October 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The E-TEAM Talks

Human Rights Watch could want no better documentary about their work about their Emergency Teams than E-TEAM, which follows two of those team, one in Libya, one in Syria, bearing witness to human rights abuse. The Syrian team, Anna Neistat and Ole Solvang traveled to San Francisco along with filmmakers Ross Kauffman and Katy Chevigny… Read More »

Tagged With: Anna Neistat, documentary, gender issues, Human Rights Watch, Katy Chevigny, Libya, Ole Solvang, Ross Kauffman, Syria

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