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'The Weight of the Nation' airs May 14 and 15 on HBO.
In North America, conversations about Brazil might center, depending upon one's particular bent, on the beauty of the beaches and the jungles of the Amazon; the merits of the national cocktail, the Caipirinha, and the bacchanal of Carnival; or the poverty in the big city favelas and the environmental destruction caused by gold mining and logging. These images are all true of Brazil, but there is more. This is a very large nation that encompasses a teeming diversity, much of which is unknown outside its borders. Included among the treasures of Brazil is one of the liveliest contemporary
Apply now through May 25 for consideration in IFP's Project Forum.
Central among the 106 films screened at the 15th edition of the Durham, North Carolina-based Full Frame Documentary Film Festival were films addressing socio-political problems. Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, from Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke, was the best of them. It is a balanced but penetrating analysis that illuminates the wrong-headedness of our present system, posing the question, Has health care in the US become a disease management system, rather than a system that treats not just symptoms but the underlying causes of disease? Paying physicians for the
There was plenty to look forward to at the 11th Tribeca Film Festival. More than 30 documentaries played in competition and non-competition sections, many making their North American, International or World Premieres. Amidst the discoveries were films continuing their successful festival runs-including Malik Bendjelloul's Searching for Sugar Man from Sundance and Chris Kenneally's Side by Side from Berlinale. Anticipation on high, I was disappointed to find that I'd have to stream most of these films at home. Perhaps it was because of the festival's increasing popularity that access to
PBS series on Latinos highlights the conference.
In July 2002, John and Janet Pierson and their two children packed their bags and moved to Taveuni, a remote Fijian island. Eleven months later, they asked filmmaker Steve James to come and make a movie about their experiences. The result is Reel Paradise. This was no ordinary tale of Americans abroad. John Pierson is a noted rainmaker for indie filmmakers, having helped to bring the work of first-time filmmakers--including Spike Lee, Michael Moore, Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater--to the screen. He was also creator and host of Split Screen, a half-hour magazine format TV show on IFC. It was
Documentary Salon presents a tribute to the notoriously private French filmmaker.
Yauch directed and distributed docs through his company.