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Niger '66: A Peace Corps Diary takes audiences some 45 years back in time on a journey with 65 idealistic youngsters who made a valiant attempt to make a small part of the world a better place to live. They were Peace Corps volunteers on a mission to the land-locked, poverty-stricken African nation of Niger--some 80 percent of which is in the Sahara desert. The 75-minute documentary was co-produced and directed by Judy Irola, ASC (American Society of Cinematographers), who was one of the early volunteers. She served in Niger for two years, beginning in June 1966. "My experience in the Peace
IDA Award-winning film pulled from theaters after record-breaking run
'Stories from Chinese America: The Arthur Dong Collection, Vol. 2'
A short strand of wooden camel carts moseys through a panorama of cracked, empty desert. The carts bear surprisingly light loads considering that they carry all the worldly possessions of their passengers, some of the last remaining gypsies of India's Thar Desert. As modernization finally proliferates into the outer reaches of the Thar, the gypsies find themselves searching farther and wider for a customer who hasn't already found a cheaper substitute for what they have to offer. These vibrant nomads remain faithful to their caste-based culture, living for the moment in the face of the
Doc U: A Conversation with Steve JamesProducer-Director of Hoop Dreams Monday, March 21, 2011 7:30 p.m.The Cinefamily, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA March's Doc U features an in-depth conversation with Steve James, the producer-director of Hoop Dreams, the landmark documentary hailed by critic Roger Ebert as "the great American documentary." In conversation with IDA's Eddie Schmidt, James will discuss his career, process and work, including his most recent film, The Interrupters, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. $15 IDA MEMBERS/$20 NON MEMBERS. TICKETS ON SALE NOW
I saw Crumb, Terry Zwigoff's portrait of the artist R. Crumb, in 1994 at a packed New York Film Festival press screening where the only seat available was the carpeted stairs. From the first scene I was mesmerized. On the surface, the story is so simple: The artist, in the autumn of his career, is leaving the safety of his secluded Northern California nest to start over in France. Zwigoff uses this as an opportunity to reflect on Crumb's life. As Crumb puts it in the film, "France isn't perfect, or anything, but it's just slightly less evil than the United States." Yet somehow through this
In 1972, Judy Irola was invited to join Cine Manifest, a Marxist film collective in San Francisco. The other members of the group were Gene Corr, Peter Gessner, John Hanson, Stephen Lighthill, Rob Nilsson and Steve Wax. The group was committed to pooling its talents and resources for the purpose of making films that reflected its idealistic social and political philosophies. The collective produced two long-form films before dissolving in 1978. Six of the seven members held a reunion on the 30th anniversary of the founding of Cine Manifest in 2002. There was another reunion in 2003 in North