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Europeans and the artistic doc: Heddy Honigmann’s Forever

mbowman

Every once in a while I will see a documentary that will totally yank my mind out of my “American doc headspace.” I’m about to make a gross generalization, but here goes. The majority of American docs pay relatively little…

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Film 101…On the Inside

katy

Last Wednesday I went to Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York State’s maximum security prison for women. Susan Purdy, a professor in Bedford’s revived college program, had asked me to show our film Deadline and speak about my experience as…

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That Dude Selling DVDs in the Subway - Grassroots Distributor or Rip-Off Artist?

shira

If you live in New York City, I’m sure you’ve seen them before. On the streets of Chinatown, on subway platforms—they’ve got a big sheet spread out or sometimes even a table, covered edge-to-edge with bootleg DVDs of blockbuster movies,…

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Postcards From Tora Bora

laimah

At this point Americans know about Afghanistan.  Post 9/11, there has been a lot of media about the region.  It is on the news fairly regularly as a nation that is a hot bed for terrorism and now it’s trying…

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