Posted on November 7th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Louie Psihoyos’ button-pushing anti-dolphin slaughter documentary The Cove walked away with 7 nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors Thursday afternoon including the top award, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking.
Burma VJ and Food, Inc. received 5 nominations each also including the top prize.
Outstanding Achievement In Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Burma VJ, Anders Ostergaard
The Cove, Louie Psihoyos
Food, [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
“I feel the world is forgetting about us. By being a video
reporter, at least I can show that Burma is still here.”
- The leader of the Democratic Voice of Burma, known as ‘Joshua’
In 2007, Danish filmmaker Anders Østergaard set out to make a short documentary about one of the members of the Democratic Voice of [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Sasha Grey in Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience
LiC’s Pick of the Week
Sure, you could go see Terminator Salvation like everyone else this weekend or you could save yourself a couple of hours of boredom and skip it. Seriously. I didn’t like Star Trek all that much, but after Terminator I’d like to curl up and [...]
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Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Apple has the trailer for Burma VJ, the highly regarded documentary about The Democratic Voice of Burma, a group of video journalists who recorded the massive 2007 uprising against the oppressive military government of Myanmar uprising and then smuggled the footage out of the country after foreign journalists had been banned and the Internet had [...]
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