Flix Not To Miss: ‘The Square’
The Square, shortlisted for an Oscar in the documentary competition this year and winner of the 2013 Sundance audience award, is a courageous feat of filmmaking by Jehane Noujaim. Noujaim’s documentary begins in 2011 and follows a group of young people nonviolently protesting in Tahrir Square, advocating for political change to the Mubarek regime. We...
READ MOREFlix Not to Miss: Katy Perry: Part of Me
When my daughter begged me to rent Katy Perry: Part of Me, I was skeptical; but she was insistent, and I like Katy Perry’s music. I was expecting a slick, packaged, overly long concert flick. I was pleasantly surprised. The movie is loosely structured around the arc of Perry’s marriage to and subsequent break-up from...
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Muckraking Journalist Filmmaker Laura Poitras: Ahead of Surveillance Scandal, Making War on Terror Doc with Assange: bit.ly/109X6fh — Laurens Grant (@LaurensGrant) June 11, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js From the @NYWIFT list Women-Driven Films –@annelabarba
READ MORENYWIFT-Live Recap: Cuban Women Filmmakers 2013 Showcase
On March 14, NYWIFT sponsored a night of short films made by Cuban women filmmakers at the Tribeca Film Center, part of a weeklong showcase held at locations across NYC. The films: Blanco Es Mi Pelo, Negra Mi Piel (White Is My Hair, Black Is My Skin) by Marina Ochoa Derecho de Ser (The Right to...
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