FOLLOWING JACKIE GLEASON The television movie called Gleason was aired by CBS on 13 October 2002. I watched it eight years later here in Tasmania, Australia.1...
Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon: Akira Kurosawa Satyajit Ray directs his first film and, by...
I am Pema: a lyrical reflection on displacement and hope from Tibet. Seven year old Pema was sent into exile from Tibet by her parents, in their attempt to...
Abused by her family, forced into marriage, pregnant at 13 then hunted down for violating her family's honour . HONOUR ME : a shocking true story of women’s...
Christmas with Dad Bifa-nominated short documentary Christmas with Dad follows 23-year- old but already a father to seven children, five from his partner’s ...
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality The most comprehensive and mind-blowing investigation of humankind's relationship with death ever captured on...
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky To the degree that one artist can bring out the best in another, Nijinsky is an inspired masterpiece. Australian director Paul...
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in Poland, where more than one million people, nearly all of them European Jews, were exterminated by the Nazis. Why...
Hi, I am writer/producer based in California. I have written books but I had recently published a paper on film and social change ( link is at bottom), which...
Call for the Film Festival Online ‘We Speak, Here...’ ABOUT CULTURE UNPLUGGED STUDIOS: Culture Unplugged Studios is a global, new age, new media studio...
The Mawlawi Order, or the Mevlevilik or Mevleviye (Persian: مولويه - Mowlawīya) are a Sufi order founded in Konya (in present-day Turkey) by the...
"Lunch with Bokara - Myths, Money and Meaning" Director: Stephen Olsson Synopsis: Myths inspire our very actions and give each of us a sense of meaning, both...
Chalo Hamara Des: Journeys with Kabir & Friends (Come to My Country) Stories of two people from two very different countries, Indian folk singer Prahlad...
"Lunch with Bokara - Zen and the Art of African Initiation" Joan Halifax, Buddhist teacher, author of "Shamanic Voices" and abbot of Upaya Zen Monastery in...
The Imam and The Pastor: a story of forgiveness. Imam Ashafa and Pastor Wuye led opposing militias in Northern Nigeria. Now the two men work together bridging...
It is unclear how many Afghan women use opium, but a 2005 addiction survey by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) put the number of adult female drug...
Close to 160,000 Indian farmers committed suicide in ten years official data show and nearly two thirds of these deaths are concentrated in five States i.e....
Hope Dies Last in War Director: Supriyo Sen “it is a saga of their individual and collective struggle, spanning three generations, to get their men back: Dr....
Nine out of 10 children living with HIV/AIDS and eight out of every 10 children who have lost parents to AIDS live in Africa. (AVERT) In 2006, 530,000 children...
“In Iran with gender discrimination how do they allow a women bus driver? I am surprised, this is rare in our society. I don't know how they decided to give...
Donkey Caravan to Timbuktu : An Ubuntu Documentary “A 900 kilometer journey across Sahara Desert” Synopsis: 'It has been a tough trip, but we returned to...
“Like Leaves in a Storm” : Blood, sweat and tea, they should never be associated. Synopsis: With each morning cuppa of tea, think of how much each tea leaf...
Yeti (Olympic Version) YETI The mighty Himalayan man, is a myth now. Tibet was a country the size of Western Europe when it was invaded by China in 1950. Since...
Shame : a film from Pakistan on honor killing Synopsis: Call the people ignorant. Savages. Violent. Animals with two feet. Whatever we want to call the people...
Unveiled Views Synopsis: What’s life really like for women in the Islamic world? To what extent is our opinion of them based on Western prejudice? The author...
“Fire Eyes” : a film on female genital mutilation from Somalia Synopsis: At thirteen she was subjected to female genital mutilation and spent the next...
Darfour : Sang Raisons Sometimes ironic, sometimes more realistic, Darfour : Sang Raisons is a film proposing a selection of short films work all to inform the...
