Tagged: documentary

02 Oct

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Half the Sky: half humanitarian heroics, half celebrity ego trip

by · October 2, 2012 · 9 Comments

Actress Olivia Wilde hangs at the Umoja Women's Village in Kenya as part of Half the Sky. (Photo via Jessica Chermayeff/PBS)

Newsflash: being a woman is surreal. Last night I was supposed to be at the gym. So I could look slimmer and prettier or something. But I had a headache. So I stayed on the couch, stumbled across human dolls on Facebook (seriously?!), and tuned in to the much-trumpeted nationwide premier of Half the Sky. [...]

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30 May

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SIFF pick resurrects Cambodia’s forgotten film industry

by · May 30, 2012 · 1 Comment

Cambodia film

Inside the gutted remains of a 1000-seat movie theater that now is home to hundreds of squatters, an old woman sits with a baby in her lap and retells the plot of a Cambodian movie she loved as a child. The movie she speaks of probably no longer exists, destroyed under the reign of the Khmer [...]

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