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Director Biography – Mani Mirsadeghi (IRAN’S WILD SIDE)

Mani Mirsadeghi is a marine biologist and documentary filmmaker who has made several films related to wildlife and environmental issues since 1993. He has traveled extensively, from Antarctica to the North Pole, has made documentaries from the underwater world of the Oman Sea to the wildlife of Africa and Siberia. His goal is to inspire […]

Director Biography – Mani Mirsadeghi (IRAN’S WILD SIDE)

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Short Film: PLANTED IN 2020, 18min., Canada, Documentary

Despite a workforce in quarantine, Canada planted almost 700 million trees in 2020 – the most ever. With future forests under threat, a young woman journeys into the Canadian bush to endure a grueling and unconventional season of tree planting. Project Links  Facebook News & Reviews “Planted in 2020: A Journey into the Environment”Toronto Film […]

Short Film: PLANTED IN 2020, 18min., Canada, Documentary

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Short Film: FEEDING LEWISHAM

This is a short film using film talent laid of during Covid, with no work I produced a short inspiring film to show and record how one community organised without state or Government support to help thousands get through the crisis and access food. Project Links  Website  Facebook  Twitter  Instagram News & Reviews https://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2020/10/feeding-lewisha

Short Film: FEEDING LEWISHAM, 12min., UK, Documentary

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Short Film: HONG KONG DIALOGUES, 40min., Hong Kong, Experimental Documentary

The experimental documentary shot on the ground by citizen-journalists during the Hong Kong protests of August 2019 to January 2020, it captured the conversations and words appeared during the Hong Kong Movement in 2019, from slogans chanted by the protestors to, speech by advocate, argument between local residents, to graffties on the wall. It tends […]

Short Film: HONG KONG DIALOGUES, 40min., Hong Kong, Experimental Documentary

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Enjoy this 1930s version of ‘A Trip Down Market Street’ in color

I’ve recently seen this stunning piece of film on YouTube that was posted in November of 2020. Shot in the 1930s, it’s a drive down Market Street from Steuart Street near the Ferry Building to Stockton Street. The filmmakers were obviously inspired by the famous 1906 film ‘A Trip Down Market Street’. It’s been colorized […]

Enjoy this 1930s version of ‘A Trip Down Market Street’ in color

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Fotoğrafı Göster: Jim Marshall’ın Hikayesi (İKSV Özel)

Jim Marshall’ın Hikayesi (İKSV Özel) İKSV ocak seçkisinde bugün bir belgeselimiz var. Alfred George Bailey yönetmenliğinde müzik tutkusunu fotoğrafçılıkla birleştirip bu dünyaya unutulmaz eserler bırakan Jim Marshall’ın hayatını anlatan belgesel yayınlandı. 2020 Grierson Trust En iyi İngiliz Sanat Belgeseli ve 2019 San Francisco En İyi Belgesel ödüllerine layık görülen belgesel hem bir biyografiyi […]

Fotoğrafı Göster: Jim Marshall’ın Hikayesi (İKSV Özel)

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Documentary Series To Stream On Netflix8

History Of Swear Words [2021] Welcome to “History of Swear Words”, hosted by none other than the legendary Nicolas Cage. I’m serious. This series is real and it’s easily bingeable. So prepare yourself to learn more about your favorite swear words, from “Fuck” to “Shit”. It’s a lot of fun and it’s actually educative. […]

Documentary Series To Stream On Netflix

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FRIDA KAHLO

It’s likely that Frida Kahlo’s face is better known than her paintings. Then again, the same could be said of many public figures. Surely more people own some form of paraphernalia with Marilyn Monroe plastered on it than have seen her movies. Images of Ruth Bader Ginsburg are common, but how well known are the […]

FRIDA KAHLO

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Boys State

Every year, the American Legion hosts a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas and has them build a representative government from the ground up.  Every state but Hawaii does the same or similar, but this particular documentary is hanging around Austin, Texas, to witness their particular experience. High schools nominate which students will be sent, ostensibly […]

Boys State

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From the Archives: The Infiltrators

Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera’s recent film The Infiltrators uses a bold mix of film forms to tell the true story of a group of young undocumented activists who intentionally detain themselves in a South Florida immigration detention facility. Styled as a heist film, Ibarra and Rivera weave together verité footage, testimony, and reenactment to produce a compelling argument against immigration detention. In Diana Ruiz’s interview, Ibarra and Rivera discuss the ways in which The Infiltrators problematizes extractive modes of documentary film and how the project’s requisite reenactment brought about unexpected results. They also discuss the creative and political dimensions of “undocumented storytelling,” which relates to the filmmakers’ enduring commitment to depicting fully dimensional representations of immigrants and Latinx experiences.

From the Archives: The Infiltrators

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Charlie as Chaplin or Chaplin as Charlie?

A weird one… I wrote about RECREATION already — this Keystone park film didn’t seem much different from a half-dozen others, and it survives in a form most uneven and considerably more ragged than most. As so often at Keystone, Chaplin makes valuable discoveries in one short (THE FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR) only to […]

The Sunday Intertitle: Charlie as Chaplin or Chaplin as Charlie?

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Rose Island

In 1968, there were dreamers, and Giorgio Rosa wasn’t the only one, but he’s the man we’re going follow today, all the way to Rose Island. Actually, in 1968 there was no Rose Island as Giorgio (Elio Germano) hadn’t built it yet. But he’s about to. He’s an engineer, a creator, and a thinker. And […]

Rose Island

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Éric Rohmer ve Yeni Dalga

Éric Rohmer 1971’de kendisiyle yapılan bir röportajda¹, “Filmlerim tamamen kurgu eserlerdir, sosyolog olduğumu iddia etmiyorum (…) Sadece kendim icat ettiğim belirli vakaları alıyorum, bunlar bilimsel değildir, hayal ürünüdürler” der. Ancak en fantastik olanından en korkunç olanına kadar her film, içinde mutlaka toplumsal bir gerçeklik barındırır. Film ile izleyici arasında bağ kuran da bu gerçeğe yakın…

Éric Rohmer ve Yeni Dalga