Opening: July 1
Venue: Film Forum/New York City
Film: The Beaches of Agnès
Dir./Prod.: Agnès Varda
Distributor: Cinema Guild
http://www.cinemaguild.com/beachesofagnes/
A magnificent new film from Agnès Varda (2002 IDA Pioneer Award honoree), The Beaches of Agnès is a richly cinematic self-portrait, a reflection on art, life and the movies.
Opening: July 3
Venue: Starz Media Center/Denver
Film: An Unlikely Weapon
Dir.: Susan Morgan Cooper
Prods.: Susan Morgan Cooper
Distributor: Julesworks Releasing
http://www.anunlikelyweapon.com/
Eddie Adams photographed 13 wars, six American Presidents and every major film star of the last 50 years. History would be changed through his lens. But the photo that made Eddie famous would haunt him his entire life. In 1968, he photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nygoc Loan, shooting a Vietcong guerilla point blank. The photo brought Eddie fame and a Pulitzer Prize, but he was haunted by the man he had vilified. He would say, "Two lives were destroyed that day-the victim and the general." Others would say three lives were destroyed.
Opening: July 3
Venue: Museum of Modern Art/New York City
Film: Nollywood Babylon
Dirs.: Ben Addelman, Samir Mallal
Prods.: Ben Addelman, Samir Mallal, Adam Symansky
Distributor: Lorber HD Digital/Alive Mind
http://www3.nfb.ca/webextension/nollywood-babylon/
Nollywood Babylon chronicles the wild world of "Nollywood," a term coined in the early ‘90s to describe the world's fastest-growing national cinema, surpassed only by its Indian counterpart. The film delves first-hand into Nigeria's explosive homegrown movie industry, where Jesus and voodoo vie for screen time. Among the bustling stalls of Lagos' Idumato market, films are sold, and budding stars are born. Creating stories that explore the growing battle between traditional mysticism and modern culture, good versus evil, witchcraft and Christianity, Nollywood auteurs have mastered a down-and-dirty, straight-to-video production formula that has become the industry standard in a country plagued by poverty. This burgeoning Nigerian film industry is tapping a national identity where proud Africans are telling their own stories to a public hungry to see their lives on screen. Peppered with outrageously juicy movie clips and buoyed by a rousing score fusing Afropop and traditional sounds, Nollywood Babylon celebrates the distinctive power of Nigerian cinema as it marvels in the magic of movies.
Opening: July 10
Film: Soul Power
Dir.: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte
Prods.: David Sonenberg, Leon Gast
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
http://www.sonyclassics.com/soulpower/
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In 1974, the most celebrated American R&B acts of the time came together with the most renowned musical groups in Africa for a 12-hour, three-night-long concert held in Kinshsha, Zaire. The dream-child of Hugh Masekela and Stewart Levine, the music festival became a reality when they convinced boxing promoter Don King to combine the event with "The Rumble in the Jungle," the epic fight between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman, previously chronicled in the Academy Award-winning documentary When We Were Kings.
Soul Power is a vérité documentary about this legendary music festival (dubbed Zaire '74), and it depicts the experiences and performances of such musical luminaries as James Brown, BB King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz and others. At the peak of their talents and the heights of their careers, these artists were inspired by this return to their African roots, as well the enthusiasm of the Zairian audience, to give the performances of their lives. This concert has achieved mythological significance as the definitive African-American music event of the 20th century.
Opening: July 10
Film: Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
Dir./Prod.: Aviva Kempner
Distributor: International Film Circuit
http://www.mollygoldbergfilm.org/
Before The Cosby Show, The Jeffersons, Good Times, or even I Love Lucy, there was The Goldbergs. Yet most likely you have never heard of this show. From 1929 until 1955 The Goldbergs was one of the most popular shows on radio and television. At the center of the show was Gertrude Berg, or as most of the country knew her Molly Goldberg. Each week Molly would come into our homes dispensing advice with exasperation love and wisdom while nurturing her family.
From the award-winning producer and director of The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg and producer of Partisans of Vilna, comes a new documentary on America's favorite radio and television personality. Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg is a 90-minute documentary on an American Jewish heroine who emerged during the most difficult years for American Jews.
Opening: July 17
Film: The Queen and I
Dir./Prod: Nahid Persson Sarvastani
Distributor: 7th Art Releasing
http://www.7thart.com/joomla/
When Nahid Persson Sarvestani, an Iranian exile, set out to make a documentary about Farrah, the wife of the Shah of Iran, she expected to encounter her opposite. As a child, Persson Sarvestani had lived in dire poverty, watching Farrah's wedding as if it were a fairy tale. As a teenager, she joined the Communist faction of Khomeini's revolution that deposed the Shah, sending him and his family volleying from country to country. When Khomeini betrayed his promise for democracy, imposing more violent measures than the Shah had, Persson Sarvestani was also forced to flee.
Thirty years later, she needs key questions answered and goes directly to the source. Surprisingly, Queen Farrah welcomes her as a fellow refugee from their beloved homeland, granting unprecedented access. Over the next year and a half, Persson Sarvestani enters the queen's world, planning to challenge the Shah's ideology; instead, she must rethink her own. When Persson Sarvestani's prior opposition to the Shah surfaces, the Queen shuts down filming. Yet, in the struggle to understand each other's experiences, an unlikely friendship has blossomed. Confronting Farrah about the Shah's repression has become not only a political conflict but a personal one, and Persson Sarvestani's objectivity is shaken. In this gripping, poignant consideration of subjectivity as truth, we learn that people write history. And can also heal it. The Queen and I couldn't be more relevant as we reach across our own political aisles.
Opening: July 17
Film: The Way We Get By
Dir.: Aron Gaudet
Prod.: Gita Pullapilly
Distributor: International Film Circuit
http://www.thewaywegetbymovie.com/
The SXSW Special Jury Award-winning The Way We Get By is a deeply moving film about life and how to live it. Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters--a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq--the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality.
When its three subjects aren't at the airport, they wrestle with their own problems: failing health, depression, mounting debt. Joan, a grandmother of eight, has a deep connection to the soldiers she meets. The sanguine Jerry keeps his spirits up even as his personal problems mount. And the veteran Bill, who clearly has trouble taking care of himself, finds himself contemplating his own death. Seeking out the telling detail rather than offering sweeping generalizations, the film carefully builds stories of heartbreak and redemption, reminding us how our culture casts our elders, and too often our soldiers, aside. More important, regardless of your politics, The Way We Get By celebrates three unsung heroes who share their love with strangers who need and deserve it.
Opening: July 24
Film: The English Surgeon
Dir./Prod.: Geoffrey Smith
Distributor: IndiePix
http://www.theenglishsurgeon.com/
What is it like to have God-like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail? This film follows brain surgeon Henry Marsh as he openly confronts the dilemmas of the doctor-patient relationship on his latest mission to Ukraine.
Opening: July 31
Film: The Cove
Dir.: Louis Psihoyos
Prods.: Paula DuPre Presman, Fisher Stevens
Distributors: Lionsgate/Roadside Atrractions/Participant Media
http://thecovemovie.com/
The Cove begins in Taiji, Japan, where former dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry has come to set things right after a long search for redemption. In the 1960s, it was O'Barry who captured and trained the five dolphins who played the title character in the international television sensation Flipper.
But his close relationship with those dolphins--the very dolphins who sparked a global fascination with trained sea mammals that continues to this day--led O'Barry to a radical change of heart. One fateful day, a heartbroken Barry came to realize that these deeply sensitive, highly intelligent and self-aware creatures so beautifully adapted to life in the open ocean must never be subjected to human captivity again. This mission has brought him to Taiji, a town that appears to be devoted to the wonders and mysteries of the sleek, playful dolphins and whales that swim off their coast.
But in a remote, glistening cove, surrounded by barbed wire and "Keep Out" signs, lies a dark reality. It is here, under cover of night, that the fishermen of Taiji, driven by a multi-billion dollar dolphin entertainment industry and an underhanded market for mercury-tainted dolphin meat, engage in an unseen hunt. The nature of what they do is so chilling--and the consequences are so dangerous to human health--they will go to great lengths to halt anyone from seeing it.
Undeterred, O'Barry joins forces with filmmaker Louis Psihoyos and the Oceanic Preservation Society to get to the truth of what's really going on in the cove and why it matters to everyone in the world. With the local Chief of Police hot on their trail and strong-arm fishermen keeping tabs on them, they will recruit an "Ocean's Eleven"-style team of underwater sound and camera experts, special effects artists, marine explorers, adrenaline junkies and world-class free divers who will carry out an undercover operation to photograph the off-limits cove, while playing a cloak-and-dagger game with those who would have them jailed. The result is a provocative mix of investigative journalism, eco-adventure and arresting imagery that adds up to an urgent plea for hope
Opening: July 31
Venue: Beekman Theater/New York City
Film: Gotta Dance
Dir./Prod: Dori Berinstein
http://www.gottadancethemovie.com/
Who says you can't hip-hop if you're 80 years old? Who says your days as a performer are long gone? Who says you can't shake things up and light up a jam-packed sports arena with your hot moves and cool attitude?
Gotta Dance chronicles the debut of the New Jersey Nets' first-ever senior hip-hop dance team--12 women and one man, all dance-team newbies, from auditions through to center-court stardom. Despite swollen ankles, exhausting rehearsals, fashion clashes and seemingly impossible dance steps, the NETSational Seniors go for it, spreading joy, inspiration and cool dance moves as they hip-hop their way into the hearts of Nets fans and beyond.
Opening: July 31
Film: Not Quite Hollywood
Dir.: Mark Hartley
Distributor: Magnet Releasing
http://www.notquitehollywood.com.au/
The much mythologized Australian film renaissance of the 1970s has been well documented. It was an era that produced such seminal films as Sunday Too Far Away, Picnic At Hanging Rock and My Brilliant Career.
But do we know the whole story?
Not Quite Hollywood looks at a period when a lifetime of savage-censorship suddenly ended. Australian cinema broke the shackles of a staid, highly conservative society and started producing films dedicated to entertaining a mass audience.
An abundance of free-wheelin sex romps, blood-soaked terror tales and high-octane action extravaganzas were released and found enthusiastic audiences around the world.
Jam-packed with outrageous anecdotes, lessons in guerrilla-style filmmaking, a smattering of international names (including Ozploitation devotee Quentin Tarantino) and a genuine, infectious love of Australian cinema, Not Quite Hollywood is a pacy, entertaining, journey through a forgotten cinematic era unashamedly packed full of boobs, pubes, tubes and a little kung fu.
Iranian Documentary Filmmaker Association (IRDFA) has issued a video statement reacting to the current situation in Iran following the June 12 Presidential election which has led to controversy and violence throughout the country.
The entire statement, signed by over 100 filmmakers, is here both as a video clip and as a written text. Also, here is a link to a post which also includes an appeal released by IRDFA in connection with the detention of two the organization's members.
Now the full text:
In the Name of God
We are documentary filmmakers. Our work is to discover and tell the truth. Truth can only be found when all aspects of reality are told. In the course of recent events in our country, our national media, by deliberately hiding the realities, is making it impossible for the public to access the truth.
We are documentary filmmakers. Our work is through media. The National Iranian Television belongs to the entire Iranian society and should be committed to represent social events truthfully and different points of view in their diversity. It should not be the mouthpiece of a specific faction and ignore a vast part of society.
We are documentary filmmakers. Our work is art and we are committed to the culture, art, and language of our country. The language of journalism should respect the dignity and honor of a society. The National Iranian Television, by distorting and suppressing the news and with the use of degrading rhetoric, makes lying and slander acceptable. It also addresses people with degrading and abusive vocabulary and thus provokes the people into confrontation and uproar.
We warn: Under the present tense circumstances depriving the society of a peaceful and respectful discourse can result in violent reactions; a society whose people up to the Election Day were promoting their diverse views peacefully and respectfully.
We warn: This kind of action means sharing the responsibility for any kind of violence, terror, social disruption, and human tragedies. It divides and antagonizes a society that is able to create unity by justice.
In the last 30 years, each and every citizen of this country has shared happiness and sorrow. They have fought side by side, brought sacrifices and lost loved ones.
We are a people with a history of several thousand years. We all belong together and share this history and this country. Do not tear us apart.
For more information go to IRDFA site here.
Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, a short film titled These Vagabond Shoes, starring Kevin Bacon, will premiere as part of the opening night of LA Shorts Fest '09, which runs July 23-31 at the Sunset 5 Laemmle Theater in West Hollywood. Johansson and Smith will appear and take part in a Q&A. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
VH1 and History have joined forces to bring the Barbara Kopple doc Woodstock: Now and Then to television, with airings on both channels: Aug. 14 on VH1 and again three days later on History, coinciding with the event's 40th-anniversary weekend. Kopple, won feature doc Oscars for 1976's Harland County, U.S.A. and 1990's American Dream. Woodstock festival organizer Michael Lang is an executive producer. (via Variety)Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences accounced that they will broaden the best-picture Oscar race to 10 nominations. Could this open up the category wide enough for a doc to get a nod? (via Variety)
Indie studio Gigantic Group is launching an online service bringing first-run independent films to broadband households, starting with the documentary Motherland on Aug. 26. See the Motherland trailer here. (via Variety)
Convention is about the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Rather than focus on the charismatic politicians, however, Schnack turns the camera on those behind-the-scenes who made the event possible. He and his team tell the stories of the Denver politicians, city planners, protesters and journalists for whom this spectacular national event is local news. The film weaves together these strands into a striking tapestry of the convention experience. While Convention is saturated in the now-familiar hope and optimism that Obama brought to the nomination, turning the spotlight on how everyday citizens dealt with the DNC provides audiences with a whole new view of it.
Schnack was able to accomplish this by making the film a collaborative effort, pulling in a group of accomplished filmmakers to produce and shoot. Quite a few were in attendance on Tuesday night, including Britta Erickson (Starz Denver Film Festival), Shirley Moyers (Kurt Cobain About a Son, Gigantic), Jennifer Chikes (The Foot Fist Way), Nathan Truesdell and David Wilson (True/False Film Festival). Others not present include Paul Taylor (We Are Together, Rough Aunties), Julie Reichert (A Lion in the House), Laura Poitras (My Country, My Country), Daniel Junge (Chiefs, They Killed Sister Dorothy) and Stephen Bognar (A Lion in the House).
The Convention team at the LAFF screening
At the Q&A following the screening, Schnack said that he'd always wanted to do a collaborative documentary in the tradition of Drew Associates (Crisis, Primary). While attending the University of Missouri, he had led a team of writers and photographers in reporting on the 1998 Iowa caucuses. He had hoped to repeat the experiment at the 2008 caucuses, but the project didn't come together for a variety of reasons. Then a year ago, over drinks at the 2008 LAFF, Schnack, Erickson and Chikes decided that they thought they had both the resources and the moxie to make Convention a reality. At the time, Schnack was also working with Wilson and Truesdell on a documentary set in Branson, MO. What could have been just a cocktail conversation turned into reality as initiative and timing combined, momentum built and as Schnack said, "All the pieces just started coming together."
AJ's only rule for the crew was that they had to be focused on people from Denver. Erickson, a Denver native, had many ties to the local community, something that helped enormously when trying to win over the trust of the city officials and residents. Several of the film's subjects were also in attendance at the screening and Guillermo "Bill" Vidal, Deputy Mayor of Denver, told us that he was a bit apprehensive at the beginning of the filmmaking process. "At first I kept chasing Laura [Poitras] out of the traffic control room," he said. "There was that fear of what if something bad happens and there's a camera there? But most of the time I forgot she was there."
Subject Allison Sherry, a staff writer with the Denver Post, said that the filmmakers were quite kind during filming. She was followed by filmmakers Julia Reichert and Stephen Bognar, and told us that the first thing Bognar taught her was how to turn off her microphone. This came in handy when she got stressed out mid-Convention and high-tailed it to the ladies room for a moment of privacy, sans cameras and co-workers.
A large chunk of the film is focused on a group of activists who founded "Recreate 68," a grassroots umbrella organization that planned and provided support for non-violent demonstrations around the Democratic National Convention in Denver. An audience member asked why the doc gave so much attention to the protestors. Schnack explained that because so much of his subjects' time was spent on dealing with security issues, he felt it was an important part of the behind-the-scenes story. He said, "Afterwards, I thought about what would have happened if it hadn't gone well. If there had been violence. What would the Republicans have said?"
Luckily, there were no mishaps to report, but the constant 'what if' lends the film a sense of suspense that helps to propel it forward. The Convention filmmakers had a few of their own dicey moments while shooting. Schnack told us a story about attempting to exchange digital P2 cards and camera batteries with David Wilson. Schnack was inside the guarded perimeter surrounding the Pepsi Center, while Wilson was stuck outside. As they slipped the goods through a hole the fence, they were yelled at several times by the Secret Service. But that didn’t stop our fearless filmmakers! Said Schnack of his li'l espionage moment, "I felt so alive!"
The challenge of shooting at the DNC was only the first hurdle in making the film. The next was pulling together the varying storylines into a cohesive film. In addition to Drew Associates, Schnack and co-editor Truesdell looked to Robert Altman and Frederick Wiseman for inspiration. In an e-mail, Schnack told me, "I've never made or edited an ensemble piece before and have never had to juggle so many characters. I looked to Altman's films to give a sense of pacing as well as a feel for how to balance the various storylines. Also, once we get into the week of the convention, we use less music than in the set-up, there are more hard cuts and overlapping audio, which I think was influenced greatly by Altman.
Wiseman is obviously an influence, both in looking at the inner workings of an event/institution as well as the relationship between "the state" and "the people". Our film may be more hopeful in this latter regard than much of Wiseman's work and I think that some of our stylistic and narrative decisions deviate from what one would think of as Wiseman's method."
With two films about musicians under his belt, Schnack has always employed music as a key storytelling element, and Convention is no exception. One might expect a film that captures such a specific moment in time to use music of the era, but Schnack goes the other way. His choices range from standards such as "Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy" and Gershwin's "Dawn of a New Day," to Gilbert and Sullivan selections such as the "Overture" from H.M.S. Pinafore. Schnack said that when he and Truesdell were editing the film, he found a series of songs that had been composed for the 1908 Democratic Convention, which was also held in Denver.
"We started using these tracks, which we really loved and which matched the upbeat, almost whimsical quality of the early part of the film," he said. "From here, we dug into Depression-era music of the first part of the 20th century - Gershwin, Milton Ager, Barbecue Bob...But the 1908 songs kept reminding me of Gilbert and Sullivan, and I think there is a kind of operetta quality to Convention, so the use of their music felt particularly appropriate to me. Also, because of the scope of the film, the way in which we are seeing the lives of all of these people against this huge backdrop, Gilbert and Sullivan feels right - it can be both intimate and epic."
Intimate and epic are good words to describe Convention - a huge national event distilled into pristine moments that add up to create a dynamic whole. As Obama spoke about teamwork from the podium in Denver, the filmmaking team behind Convention put those words into action on the ground, proving that working together can, indeed, bear magnificent fruit.
Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, died today at the age of 50 after suffering a heart attack and being found unconscious in his Los Angeles home.
Jackson's lifetime of hits saw him selling more than 750 million albums worldwide, inventing dance moves and being surrounded by controversy and rumors regarding surgical procedures, his relationships with children (his own and others) and his constant Peter Pan outlook on life.
Through it all, the loyal fans supported Jackson no matter what. The fandom was captured in the 2006 documentary Camp Michael Jackson following the devoted as Jackson stood trial for child sexual abuse. See a trailer here.
Jackson was profiled by British journalist Martin Bashir for the very popular 2003 TV doc, Living with Michael Jackson, which started innocently enough, before Jackson's camp questioned Bashir's content and motives. Here's a peek into happier times for Jackson:
Farrah Fawcett passed away this morning at the age of 62 after losing a battle with cancer. The American actress, founding member of TV's Charlie's Angels and international beauty icon known for her good looks, hair and pinup posters has been honored in many print and online obituaries (Los Angeles Times and the New York Times to name a few)--and will also be remembered on air with news and a BIO Channel special.
Tonight, Dateline NBC will air a special tribute to Fawcett called Farrah Fawcett: The Life and Death of an Angel at 10 p.m. ET. In addition to a look at Farrah's life and her battle with cancer, the hour-long special will share recent interviews with Ryan O'Neal, Alana Stewart, her dad, sister, fellow Charlie's Angel Kate Jackson, and never before aired parts of a 1997 interview with Stone Phillips.
Then on Friday, June 26 at 9 p.m. ET, NBC News will re-broadcast Farrah's Story, a two-hour documentary about Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer that she shot with her own video camera over the past two and a half years. The special first aired last month on NBC.
On Monday June 29, the BIO Channel will commemorate her life with BIO Remembers: Farrah Fawcett at 10 p.m. ET. The special will tell the actress' story from her rural upbringing in Corpus Christi through her life in Hollywood and beyond.
See NY Times video of Farrah Fawcett and Farrah's Story here.
A working print of the incomplete film, Sins of Commission, has been subpoenaed by the California Coastal Commission, the very entity the doc takes on.
Filmmaker Richard Oshen says the CCC "misrepresents environmental protection policies for their own aggrandizement, and in the process, creates a hazardous situation for all Californians." See the trailer here.
Oshen says the actions are a violation of his First Amendment rights and a blatant attempt by the commission to silence the film.
No matter what the commission says regarding their demand for the film…the commission’s history, revealed for the first time in Sins of Commission, clearly shows how the California Coastal Commission obscures their real motives and objectives.
They simply want the film blocked, and will go to any length to accomplish their goal--even if it means violating the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution to do it.
The story was picked by KNBC Los Angeles news, see the report here:
Judge the film for yourself. Sins of Commission is set to screen at the 2009 West Hollywood International Film Festival, August 5-8.
As part of Hulu's second annual Hulu Days of Summer promotion and in conjunction with tonight’s NBA Draft, the site is exclusively providing online access to Gunnin' for That #1 Spot. The film, directed by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, follows eight of the top 24 high school basketball players in the country on and off the court as they prepare to showcase their abilities during the “Elite 24” all-star game played at the most legendary basketball playground in the world, Rucker Park.
Rucker Park, long considered to be modern basketball’s Mecca, is in Harlem, New York. Almost every notable NBA player from Wilt Chamberlin to Michael Jordan to LeBron James has played there. Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot was filmed in 2006 and features a number of players who will be selected during the NBA Draft tonight, including likely No. 6 overall pick Tyreke Evans
See the documentary via Hulu right here:
The Hulu Blog also features an exclusive Q&A with Gunnin' for That #1 Spot's director Adam Yauch.
Additionally, the site is featuring On Any Sunday, a classic motorcycle racing documentary that follows the lives of motorcycle racers and racing enthusiasts, including actor Steve McQueen. Directed by Bruce Brown (The Endless Summer), the film looks at the people who devote (and sometimes risk) their lives to racing on tracks and off-road courses around the world, asking the question "Why do they do it?”
CINE is thrilled to announce that we have entered a pioneering distribution partnership with SnagFilms, the innovative online distribution system and only broadband platform dedicated to bringing documentary films to a wide audience SnagFilms over the internet. Founded by visionary entrepreneur and filmmaker Ted Leonsis, recipient of CINE’s 2009 Trailblazer Award, SnagFilms.com is a website that not only permits viewers to watch documentary films for free, but allows them to “snag” films and put them anywhere on the web through viral distribution. Since its launch last July, SnagFilms virtual movie theatre widgets have been viewed over 700 million times.
Winners of the CINE Golden Eagle, Special Jury and Masters Awards in several of CINE’s documentary categories since 2004 will receive letters in the upcoming weeks providing more information about this opportunity for distribution on SnagFilms’ CINE channel. If your documentary film won a CINE award prior to 2004, you may contact us if you are interested in pursuing this opportunity.
Now winning a CINE Award for documentary film not only means receiving the recognition that goes with the prestigious CINE name, but affords these films the unprecedented opportunity to reach a wider, international audience and to benefit from the new revenue source of ad-supported streaming.
CINE has been giving filmmakers wings for over fifty years. We are delighted to join with SnagFilms in creating a whole new flight path.
For more on CINE along with a video interview with Rick Allen click here.
Update: Robert Kenner will host another Twitter chat at 10 a.m. PST on Thursday 6/25. Read below to learn how to take part.
Got some questions about Food, Inc., the doc that takes a tough look at the industrial production of meat, grains and vegetables, in the U.S. and the economic and legal power of the major food companies?
Got a Twitter account?
Good, then make sure to catch a live Twitter chat with the doc's director Robert Kenner this Friday (June 19) at 10 am PST.
The film opened in select markets last week and now that some have seen it, the filmmakers want to interact with the movie's fans.
It's simple to participate. At 10am PST this Friday login to twitter and put #foodinc in the search bar and hit enter. You will then be following the conversation. If you have a question, be sure to include the #foodinc tag. This way the question will stay on this thread.
In the meantime, check out the Documentary magazine online exclusive article about Food, Inc.