For this column at least, January has become what I'll call "mental differentness" (as opposed to "illness" or "disability") month—a chance to
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In Motherland, award-winning Filipina-American filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz takes us into the heart of the planet's busiest maternity hospital, in one of
A recent flood of impressive, handsomely produced, mostly cinéma vérité Chinese documentaries hint at the versatility and maturity of documentary
I had the fortune of attending the Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF), which ran from October 9-19. The festival launched in 1998 as a
In March 2003, as we began screening documentaries by filmmakers from rural Kentucky to audiences in southwest China, American missiles began raining
China's documentary television sector has travelled light years in a decade. This boom is driven by China's vast-scale, rocketing economic growth, its
On the historic midnight of August 14 and 15, 1947, India became independent from British rule. First Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's speech
The 21st-century marriage of the digital revolution with China's drive toward First World status, and the resulting collateral damage, have been
'Last Train Home' airs September 27, 2011, on PBS' 'POV.'
Last summer, as part of an exchange program with the University of Southern California and the Communication University of China, I set off with six