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03:15
Petals of Hope
Petals of Hope is a PSA showing the sufferings of women around the world. The film uses a red rose with petals falling to symbolize how the pain women experience has made them lose their beauty, hope, and dreams.
Petals of Hope is a PSA showing the sufferings of women around the world. The film uses a red rose with petals falling to symbolize how the pain women experience has made them lose their beauty, hope, and dreams.
03:29
Cubanos, Life and Death of a Revolution
Cubanos, a completely independent production, liberates itself from television convention to draw an impressionist portrait of the Cuban community. Sincere interviews and sequence shots reveal an identity fragmented by 48 years of dictatorship, a people struggling to leave the 20th century behind. While music may barely camouflage the misery and corruption in Cuba, the sounds of engines and commercial radio can’t mask the cultural gap between the island and the very active community in Miami. The main character, Catuey, a Cuban musician who has been living in Québec for a number of years, brings to his journey and his songs the image of an ideal Cuba hurt by the division in its people and the group-think that prevails in Miami. Confronted with the contradictions among his countrymen and his own demons, Catuey ends his odyssey drained and disappointed not to have found a simple path to reconciliation. The film steers clear of the pitfalls of sensationalist news, taking a more holistic approach to the identity issues the Cuban community will face upon the death of Fidel Castro. Yan Giroux has shot, edited and directed a film that uses strong framing and extended shots to transform the chaos of reality into a set of evocative signs. While Catuey and the interviewees try to define themselves both as individuals and as Cubans, one scene at a time, the camera paints a broader, more complex portrait of a people held prisoner by their history. The travel footage scans the day-to-day lives of Cubans in Cuba and Miami for vestiges of the revolutionary dream. Echoing each other throughout the film, the scenes explore the many facets of a culture that is developing differently on either side of the Straits of Florida. Precise camera and editing work create a setting of objects and sounds that subtly interact with the content of the interviews. Amidst Havana’s ruins, the interviewees’ faces are blurred to protect their identities, but this is no longer a formal constraint, becoming one more aesthetic symptom in the crumbling landscape of Cuban communism. By exploring the richness of cinematographic language, Cubanos goes beyond the documentary genre to become a road movie that takes us to the heart of Catuey's struggle. A faded flag flutters in the wind as a saw whines, far away. Catuey croons Cuba’s national anthem like a lullaby. The ambiguity between dream and nightmare is what defines this revolution, its romanticism tattered by disillusionment.
Cubanos, a completely independent production, liberates itself from television convention to draw an impressionist portrait of the Cuban community. Sincere interviews and sequence shots reveal an identity fragmented by 48 years of dictatorship, a people struggling to leave the 20th century behind. While music may barely camouflage the misery and corruption in Cuba, the sounds of engines and commercial radio can’t mask the cultural gap between the island and the very active community in Miami. The main character, Catuey, a Cuban musician who has been living in Québec for a number of years, brings to his journey and his songs the image of an ideal Cuba hurt by the division in its people and the group-think that prevails in Miami. Confronted with the contradictions among his countrymen and his own demons, Catuey ends his odyssey drained and disappointed not to have found a simple path to reconciliation. The film steers clear of the pitfalls of sensationalist news, taking a more holistic approach to the identity issues the Cuban community will face upon the death of Fidel Castro. Yan Giroux has shot, edited and directed a film that uses strong framing and extended shots to transform the chaos of reality into a set of evocative signs. While Catuey and the interviewees try to define themselves both as individuals and as Cubans, one scene at a time, the camera paints a broader, more complex portrait of a people held prisoner by their history. The travel footage scans the day-to-day lives of Cubans in Cuba and Miami for vestiges of the revolutionary dream. Echoing each other throughout the film, the scenes explore the many facets of a culture that is developing differently on either side of the Straits of Florida. Precise camera and editing work create a setting of objects and sounds that subtly interact with the content of the interviews. Amidst Havana’s ruins, the interviewees’ faces are blurred to protect their identities, but this is no longer a formal constraint, becoming one more aesthetic symptom in the crumbling landscape of Cuban communism. By exploring the richness of cinematographic language, Cubanos goes beyond the documentary genre to become a road movie that takes us to the heart of Catuey's struggle. A faded flag flutters in the wind as a saw whines, far away. Catuey croons Cuba’s national anthem like a lullaby. The ambiguity between dream and nightmare is what defines this revolution, its romanticism tattered by disillusionment.
03:37
The View from Madison Street (Steve James)
African-Americans from this largely forgotten stretch of inner-city Chicago speak out about race, class and how neither of the then-presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, was addressing the issues of poverty that plague their community.
African-Americans from this largely forgotten stretch of inner-city Chicago speak out about race, class and how neither of the then-presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, was addressing the issues of poverty that plague their community.
01:13
Waiting...
This historical MicroDoc gives a glimpse into the difficulties faced by Palestinian children and their parents in the H2 section of the West Bank city of Hebron during extended periods of curfew in 2003, when contrary to UN regulations, children were regularly prevented from going to school by Israeli soldiers. In the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict, it is easy to lose sight of the ways that the everyday lives of ordinary people can be disrupted. Shot largely on hidden camera to avoid confiscation by the soldiers, this film provides a window to just one aspect of children’s and parents’ lives under military occupation.
This historical MicroDoc gives a glimpse into the difficulties faced by Palestinian children and their parents in the H2 section of the West Bank city of Hebron during extended periods of curfew in 2003, when contrary to UN regulations, children were regularly prevented from going to school by Israeli soldiers. In the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict, it is easy to lose sight of the ways that the everyday lives of ordinary people can be disrupted. Shot largely on hidden camera to avoid confiscation by the soldiers, this film provides a window to just one aspect of children’s and parents’ lives under military occupation.
03:11
The R.O.M.E.O.S Ep.2 (Katy Chevigny)
ROMEO is an acronym for 'Retired Old Men Eating Out' and features an informal club of retired lawyers, writers and intellectuals who meet every week at a classic New York diner. It is a long lunch to talk about anything and everything; telling old jokes, making fun of each other, complaining about politics. This is what the conversation would be like if the guys from 'Diner' hung out 50 years after the movie.
ROMEO is an acronym for 'Retired Old Men Eating Out' and features an informal club of retired lawyers, writers and intellectuals who meet every week at a classic New York diner. It is a long lunch to talk about anything and everything; telling old jokes, making fun of each other, complaining about politics. This is what the conversation would be like if the guys from 'Diner' hung out 50 years after the movie.
03:09
Return Ticket From Baghdad (Chris Wiltsee)
Randy is an 18 year-old kid who decided to escape the mean streets of Oakland by joining the Marines. Just a few months later, Randy finds himself on deployment in Iraq. We catch up with him back in Oakland and attempting to pick up the pieces of his life.
Randy is an 18 year-old kid who decided to escape the mean streets of Oakland by joining the Marines. Just a few months later, Randy finds himself on deployment in Iraq. We catch up with him back in Oakland and attempting to pick up the pieces of his life.
14:37
Darkie Day
Cornish folk in black-face singing old minstrel songs: harmless tradition or an act of racial mockery? Three filmmakers embark on a journey across England to find out exactly what Darkie Day is all about.
Cornish folk in black-face singing old minstrel songs: harmless tradition or an act of racial mockery? Three filmmakers embark on a journey across England to find out exactly what Darkie Day is all about.
08:33
Political Graffiti: "Suck It, Congress!"
The Iwig family knew they'd run out of time to save their dairy - the bank was ready to foreclose, emergency funds promised by the federal government were slow in coming, and their congresswoman wasn't returning their calls. So they played the last card they had: their community.
The Iwig family knew they'd run out of time to save their dairy - the bank was ready to foreclose, emergency funds promised by the federal government were slow in coming, and their congresswoman wasn't returning their calls. So they played the last card they had: their community.
01:52:21
OzDox: Is Politics the New Black? And alternative...
What is the role of the political documentary and what motivates people to make them? Where does activism and film making meet? Where is the best place to watch political documentaries and why? These are just some of the questions OZDOX will be asking four prominent Australian film-makers and activists as they join us for a lively discussion and show excerpts of their recent projects.
What is the role of the political documentary and what motivates people to make them? Where does activism and film making meet? Where is the best place to watch political documentaries and why? These are just some of the questions OZDOX will be asking four prominent Australian film-makers and activists as they join us for a lively discussion and show excerpts of their recent projects.
02:22
Ghana's Roosting Bird – Jemma Gander and Miriam...
A colleague and I independently researched, shot and edited a short film on the subisidies affecting rice farmers in rural Ghana.Shot on Sony A1E. To find out more about Jemma Gander, visit their profile Here. For more great films visit the Shooting People Channel..
A colleague and I independently researched, shot and edited a short film on the subisidies affecting rice farmers in rural Ghana.Shot on Sony A1E. To find out more about Jemma Gander, visit their profile Here. For more great films visit the Shooting People Channel..
