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Showing videos filed under: documentary film
Got Docs: Latching On
July 31, 2010"Latching On" produced by Women Make Movies, interviews several different women from around the world who describe how their respective cultures and locations respond to breast-feeding and the ongoing fight against the "taboo" of public breast-feeding in New York City.Europe Under the Crunch, Donna Edwards, Latching On, & Monique Harden
July 30, 2010We've heard plenty about the recession in the U.S., but what about the rest of the world? Countries across Europe have faced budget crunches and conservative governments are using the crisis as an excuse to roll back the social safety net that most have enjoyed for decades.Got Docs: The Heretics
July 23, 2010Our Got Docs? this week is "The Heretics" created by Joan Braderman of Women Make Movies. Braderman followed the now geographically dispersed New York feminist art collective from Venice, Italy to New Mexico, asking them what it was like to come together and challenge gender and power structures within the art world and how it shaped them as women and artists.Tamra Davis, The Heretics, and Small Steps on the Economy
July 23, 2010In the 80s, before she directed Hollywood comedies like Half Baked and Billy Madison, Tamra Davis shot hours of footage of her friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. The young artist went on to international stardom before dying of a heroin overdose at age 27, and Davis went on to Hollywood. Our Got Docs? this week is "The Heretics" created by Joan Braderman of Women Make Movies. Braderman followed the now geographically dispersed New York feminist art collective from Venice, Italy to New Mexico, asking them what it was like to come together and challenge gender and power structures within the art world and how it shaped them as women and artists. Lastly, Danny Schechter comments on how small steps on economic recovery are not enough to remedy an economic meltdown.Yoruba Richen: Promised Land
July 3, 2010Yoruba Richen made the film, “Promised Land,” to explore the black, the white, and the shades of gray of post apartheid tensions. The film follows the Mekgareng, and impoverished tribe, removed from their land forty years ago as they try to reclaim their land from wealthy, white farmers and developers. The land issue becomes a “ticking time bomb,” posing an ever-present threat to volatile post-apartheid South Africa.Anyone But Me, South Africa's Promised Land, and Courtney Young
July 2, 2010Anyone But Me is a hit teen show, viewed over 4.5 million times in its first two seasons. That's pretty impressive for a show that is only available on the Web. The drama, which was financed for two seasons by a private investor, was created by Susan Miller and Tina Cesa Ward to do something different, and with few models for a successful Web TV show to follow, they have had to chart their own course.Tim Hetherington: "Restrepo"
June 19, 2010Stories about politics are rarely stories about people, but stories about people are often stories about politics. “Restrepo” is the title of a film by Tim Hetherington telling one of these stories.Restrepo, the UXO Tour, and Chloe Angyal
June 18, 2010Afghanistan is now the longest war in United States history. Soldiers are deported everyday, institutionalized to fight the elusive “war in Afghanistan.” Civilians and villagers are caught between the Taliban and the United States. Often, soldiers are too busy trying to survive to ask the metaphysically political questions like, “why are we here?”Joy Harjo, Developing Haiti, and a Muted Media
May 21, 2010Poet, musician, playwright, and artist Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Nation, and her art has always served to reconnect her audiences with Native issues and themes. From the soybean plantations of Brazil to the tin mines of Bolivia, Latin America has experienced 500 years of several angles of exploitation and repression. Yet, Latin America is at a turning point where a series of socialist leaders have come to power. We continued our conversation with Ray Laforest concerning global redevelopment projects in Haiti. On Sunday, seven-year old Aiyana Jones was shot and killed during a failed murder investigation. What happens when the police accidently shoot and kill a seven-year old black girl and the media reaction is muted?Got Doc: El General
May 14, 2010Plutarco Elías Calles was both a military general and later one of the most controversial presidents of Mexico. He is known for his status as a revolutionary hero, but also for bringing these (sometimes brutal) military tactics into his political career.
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