Thaelman Urgelles is a celebrated Venezuelan filmmaker, perhaps most well known for his 1982 film La Boda (The Wedding), which some consider to be one of the most influential Venezuelan films of all time. In La […]
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On June 7, award-winning filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi began serving a five year sentence in Iran’s infamous Evin Prison. In this video that Mohammadi recorded on June 6, she speaks about the impending imprisonment.
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In the fifth interview of our series “Cultivating Latino Arts” filmmaker Ray Santisteban talks about the roots of disenfranchisement, the FBI’s history of repression, and how a coalition of some of Chicago’s poorest, least-educated groups changed the future of national politics.
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Filmmaker Laura Varela shares her personal journey and the evolution of her documentary “raúlrsalinas and the Poetry of Liberation”. In this interview, Varela also divulges the impetuses that spurred her career and her goal to highlight the hitherto unknown latino poet and activist, raúlrsalinas.
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This week: circumventing Internet censorship with Tor, Burmese newspapers going daily, and analyzing Chinese government’s censorship of Weibo posts.
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This week: the arrests of journalists on the rise in Iran, the top 20 books some governments have tried to ban, and two reporters killed in Mexico.
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Vijay Nair profiles Indian filmmaker Anand Patwardhan whose works deal with subjects like the patriarchal mindset of Indians, women’s rights, and fundamentalism.
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