| Friday, November 5, 2010 3:53PM |
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| Stuck for Ideas? Go to the Movies |
Tags: Ideas, Movies, westerns, series, plot, setting, character development, Cable TV, A&E, History Channel, TCM, old films, true stories, international news, writers' block, writing slump, story points, plot twist, minimalist, drama, melodrama
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I grew up watching offbeat Saturday afternoon westerns like "Sky King" on TV. Not very original and highly formulaic, series like these featured stories a kid could snack on without spoiling her dinner. They were also instructive on plot, setting and a... |
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| Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:21PM |
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| The Greatest Silence |
Tags: The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, Lisa Jackson, Writing to Change our Global Community, Laura Cococcia, Laura Reviews, Interview, Documentary, Filmmaker
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For some stories, the written word can not always tell the whole tale. In such cases, pictures often speak much louder than words alone.
But just like books, every film tells a story.
Directed by Lisa F. Jackson, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo addresses the innumerable casualties of women and children who have been kidnapped, raped and tortured by soldiers as a result of the decade long war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Before Jackson's documentary, the world knew nothing of these women who died and suffered silently. As a result of Jackson's committed efforts, these stories are now being told to our global community - the home in which we all live.
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| Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:35PM |
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| Real Hope |
Tags: Harvey Milk, film
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Ya gotta give 'em hope. A timeless movie with a timeless message. |
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| Wednesday, December 24, 2008 12:40PM |
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| Silent Secret |
Tags: film
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| Proxy wars for Africa’s bountiful mineral resources produce more than just carnage. As the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo now logs 4 million dead and tens of thousands raped, tortured or mutilated, one has to ask how long transnational corporations and governments supplying the arms can continue acting with impunity. The Greatest Silence, the award–winning documentary by Lisa F. Jackson, exposes the brutality of civil war on women and children in the DRC; US participation in this holocaust is perhaps the world’s best kept open secret. |
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| Monday, November 17, 2008 11:44AM |
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| Give Some Love |
Tags: trafficking, slavery, film
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
--Cornell West |
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| Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:53AM |
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| Ten Cent Toll |
Tags: Kootenai, film, Idaho, American Indian
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Watch the trailer of the new film about the 1974 Kootenai insurrection. |
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| Sunday, November 9, 2008 11:46AM |
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| March Point |
Tags: film, American Indian, Swinomish
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March Point, the award-winning documentary film by three Swinomish Indian teens, airs November 18 on PBS. |
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| Tuesday, November 4, 2008 12:10PM |
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| The American Carver |
Tags: American Indian film, Lummi
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The American Carver, a documentary feature film about Lummi carver Jewell James, debuts at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, Sunday, November 9. In the early 1970s, I worked alongside Jewell's father and brother harvesting salmon in the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the Cascade Mountains. Jewell is also a fellow associate of the Center for World Indigenous Studies in Olympia, Washington. |
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| Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:35PM |
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| Unrepentant |
Tags: indigenous, human rights, genocide, Christianity, film
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Kevin Annett's documentary film Unrepentant exposes the hidden history of the Canadian holocaust.
Annett's revelation in the 1990s of the Indian Residential School death camps, run by the United Church of Canada, initiated public scrutiny of the systematic indigenous extermination by the Canadian government and mainstream churches that has broken the silence imposed by Canadian media and authorities. Despite ongoing church, government and police harassment, the story of mass murder of native peoples in Canada that continues to this day is no longer banished from human consciousness. Indeed, the crimes of the present against aboriginal peoples by North American institutions and corporations reveals the truth of Annett's statement that, "Christianity was hijacked" by a people... |
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