by Pier Marton | Oct 9, 2010 | Afri, Asia, Doc, Eco, Film, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Roma, Time, Travel, Wars, Women
The Cinereach Grants Program supports feature-length nonfiction and fiction films that possess an independent spirit, depict underrepresented perspectives, and resonate across international boundaries. We favor story over message, character over agenda, complexity...
by Pier Marton | Oct 9, 2010 | Asia, Doc, Eco, Film, Humor, Review, STL, Travel, Women
Another winner at the upcoming ’10 St. Louis Film Festival. My review: Visit with Locho, Yama and their daughter, a lively Tibetan nomad family and their yak herd. A rare intimate (and humorous) look at a 4,000 year old lifestyle that is rapidly...
by Pier Marton | Oct 8, 2010 | Antisemitism, Art, Dance, Doc, Ego, Film, Jewish, KeyFilm, Women
Judith Doneson is the author of “The Holocaust in American Film.” For a woman who was to transform film, it is fitting that Maya Deren was born in Russia in 1917, during the birth of the Revolution. Born Eleanora Derenkowsky in Kiev, Ukraine, on April 29,...
by Pier Marton | Oct 8, 2010 | Death, History, Human Rights, Politics, Popular, Wars, Women
Part of a travelling exhibit at Peace Museums Born: Mar. 25, 1903 Osnabrück, Germany – Beheaded (with an axe): Dec. 16, 1943 Berlin-Plötzensee, Germany Elfriede Scholz was the younger sister of famed German novelist Erich Maria Remarque who wrote the great...
by Pier Marton | Oct 7, 2010 | Doc, Eco, Film, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Native, Now, Objects, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Wars, Women
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by Pier Marton | Oct 7, 2010 | Asia, Books, Human Rights, Photo, Racism, Time, Travel, Women
Thanks to H.D. First photographs of Tibet! 72 pictures from 1903. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...