June 2007Her films have divided Iran, led to her arrest and seen her charged with four crimes that carry the death penalty. But Iranian filmmaker Tehmineh Milani refuses to be silenced. "She focuses on women's rights and shows things the way they are", states a fan. Milani's latest film, 'Payback', is her most contentious to date. It's about four women who meet in prison and form a vigilante gang, posing as prostitutes and handing out their own brand of justice to men. "I wrote the story but the characters are based on real people", Milani states. Although Milani is Iran's most commercially successful director, filmmaking for her is about much more than making money. As she explains: "I think I have an ability to make a positive cultural change".
Part 1: A conversation with filmmaker Curt Ellis about his new documentary "King Corn", the film that may open eyes across America. Surprisingly, corn is present in some form or another, in almost everything on the American plate. And, none more so, than through the food ingredient "high fructose corn syrup" (HFCS). Is it a good idea to have "HFCS" present in so many of our foods without prior public debate, or adequate science to measure its impact on the long-term health of adults, and especially our children? Should our standard meals be unnaturally skewed toward a corn based diet, in the first place? This interview, along with video clips from the documentary, may not provide the answers here, but it's a good beginning for further thought and reflection. What do you think?
Farming today is not what we may imagine it to be. It's become largely an industrial process, and corn epitomizes this shift in production methods. In Part 3, 'King Corn' filmmaker Curt Ellis shares his experience growing an acre of corn in Iowa, and what it was like for him and his partner. Surprisingly, the growing of 10,000 pounds of corn in one season was the easiest part of the whole farming experience. The other parts were more mundane, and more disappointing.
Continuing the conversation, Curt Ellis shares his story about the pervasiveness of corn in our daily foods. We learn that for the first time in human history, the problem of obesity is associated with poverty, not affluence. The processed foods that saturate the market with cheap food products is the chief culprit. Do you feel it's time for a change?
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Filled with the holiday spirit, our valiant Independent Filmmaker buys a Christmas tree and shows us a holiday "drawing"! (Sorry, gang. This is NOT from his animated holiday movie.) Merry Christmas!
Jan. 9: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ripped into the media in a new conservative documentary, saying the accusations about her during the campaign were downright scary. John Ziegler, the filmmaker who interviewed Palin, talks to MSNBC
MSNBC David Shuster takes on the Right Wing Nut Job Psychopath John Ziegler about his Documentary on Sarah Palin. Shuster stops him in mid stream and makes him answer questions about his fantasy land premiss that poor little Palin was treated badly by the press.
Reel 13 is proud to present a series of videos featuring the filmmakers behind the Reel 13 Indie "The Cult of Sincerity", which aired on Reel 13 on Saturday, August 23rd at 11:15pm. In this fifth of ten videos, co-directors Adam Browne and Brendan Choisnet, along with the film's lead actor Daniel Pettrow discuss their unique distribution situation.
More at http://therealnews.com/c.php?c 080601YTFilmmaker Marie-Monique Robin on the troubling past of one of the world's biggest agricultural companies
Documentary on Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman's incredible special effects.Karel Zeman (November 3, 1910, Ostroměř near Nová Paka, then Austria-Hungary - April 5, 1989, Prague, then Czechoslovakia) was a Czech animator and filmmaker. He is considered the co-founder of the Czech animated film.He started to be interested in puppet theatre while studying at business school. Soon after, he decided to study at the Art School of Advertising in France, and after graduating he took a job with an advertising studio in Marseilles. His first experience with animated film was making an ad for soup. When he returned home he continued working in advertising, now for big Czech firms Bata and Tatra. Zeman showed a sample of his work to the filmmaker Elmar Klos, and was offered a job at the animation studio in Zlín. He accepted the job in 1943. Once there, he met animator Hermína Týrlová, who had just finished animating the all-time children's favorite Ferda Mravenec (Ferda the Ant, based on a story by Ondřej Sekora). Together, Zeman and Týrlova made the animated film Vánoční sen (Christmas Dream) and won the award for Best Animation at the 1946 festival in Cannes. Zeman was well on his way to becoming a world-renowned animator.
