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Documentary
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New Beijing, New Marriage: A Milestone Film in China’s LGBTQ Movement
Read more: New Beijing, New Marriage: A Milestone Film in China’s LGBTQ MovementNew Beijing, New Marriage is a documentary shot by Fan Popo, a Chinese gay rights activist in 2009. The film recorded that a gay couple and a lesbian couple, who were volunteers instead of real homosexual couples, were having their…
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THE BAREFOOT ARTIST
Read more: THE BAREFOOT ARTISTBorn in China in 1941, artist Lily Yeh experienced first-hand the ravages of that country’s civil war when her family became refugees, fleeing to Taiwan as the communists took over. That personal story and the story of Yeh’s global art…
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The Last American Indian On Earth
Read more: The Last American Indian On Earth“The Last American Indian on Earth”, a performance art piece by Gregg Deal,a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe originally based in northwestern Nevada.The project documents what happens when an unsuspecting public is confronted with the flesh-and-blood version of…
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Lagos in the Red
Read more: Lagos in the RedMade by Danish filmmakers Lotte Løvholm, Karen Andersen & Nanna Nielsen, Lagos in the Red follows Nigerian performance artist Jelili Atiku. Atiku uses his body as a prop as a means of sensitizing people to the problems that Nigeria –…
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Every Step You Take
Read more: Every Step You TakeWith an estimated four million surveillance cameras, Britain is by far the most-watched nation on earth. Every Londoner is on camera about 300 times a day. How could this come about in George Orwell’s mother country? What were the ignition…
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Canadian Documentary Tackles Gender Violence, Race and Privilege
Read more: Canadian Documentary Tackles Gender Violence, Race and PrivilegeThe annual Toronto film festival Hot Docs is underway, and one of the featured documentaries tackles the tragic and gruesome story of serial killer Robert Pickton. The notorious murderer was responsible for the deaths of at least 26 women, many…
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White Walls Say Nothing (Film)
Read more: White Walls Say Nothing (Film)This film is being produced by White Wall Industries in association with graffitimundo. graffitimundo is a Buenos Aires based arts organisations, dedicated to promoting the city’s urban art culture and supporting its artists. For the past four years graffitimundo have…
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Shake The Dust (Film)
Read more: Shake The Dust (Film)“‘Shake the Dust’ is a feature documentary that tells the stories of break-dancers in struggling communities around the globe that, although separated by cultural boundaries and individual struggles, are intrinsically tied to one another through their passion for break-dancing and…
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DIY documentarian serves time for refusing to submit video of police brutality during Tompkins Square Park Riots
Read more: DIY documentarian serves time for refusing to submit video of police brutality during Tompkins Square Park RiotsDocumentarian Clayton Patterson captured video of police brutality during the Tompkins Square Park riots in the summer of 1988. When District Attorney Robert Morgenthau ordered Patterson to hand over his camera and tapes as evidence, Patterson refused, citing distrust of…
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GIMME THE POWER
Read more: GIMME THE POWERDirected by Fernando Sariñana, Todo el poder centers around the politics and corruption that shroud the Mexican police system. Featuring Demián Bichir as Gabriel, a filmmaker whose career has left him assaulted and robbed in broad daylight more times than…