Feb 16 End Black History Month? Weigh In With ‘More Than a Month’ Filmmaker Filmmaker Shukree Tilghman of the film "More Than a Month." Photo courtesy of Independent Lens on PBS. Updated 11:07 a.m. Friday, Feb. 17. | Join Hari Sreenivasan and African-American filmmaker Shukree Tilghman here on Friday at 3 p.m. Continue reading
May 20 Conversation: Geena Davis Hopes to Shift Gender Balance in Film Geena Davis has some experience with strong and complex female characters. She's played a meek-housewife-turned-bold-woman-on-the-run, a baseball star, a secret agent and an American president. She says it was her experience playing Thelma in "Thelma and Louise" that first piqued… Continue reading
May 12 Whether Joan Rivers or Genocide, Sundberg and Stern Find Compelling Stories After more than two decades, Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern now have what Sundberg calls, "a long marriage of a work partnership." The documentary filmmakers founded Break-Thru Films in 1990 and began working on their first major, feature-length documentary in… Continue reading
Apr 27 ‘Better This World’ Looks at Domestic Terrorism, Political Activism Post-9/11 A new documentary, 'Better This World', follows the story of the Texas Two as they wrestle with how to defend themselves in court and deal with FBI pressure to betray each other. Continue reading
Apr 21 Morgan Spurlock Takes on Product Placement in ‘Greatest Movie Ever Sold’ Two years ago Morgan Spurlock, who starred in and directed "Super Size Me," and regular collaborator Jeremy Chilnick reached their tipping point with advertisements. They were watching the TV show "Heroes" when they were struck by… Continue reading
Mar 15 Stories from SXSW: Films That Speak to Deaf and Hearing Audiences Alike Filmmaker and designer Robyn Girard hopes that her latest project will bring positive stories of what it's like to be deaf to popular culture. Continue reading
Dec 22 Conversation: Best Unsung Films of 2010 By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post about the best under-appreciated films of 2010. Continue reading
Aug 20 Conversation: Director Yael Hersonski Puts New Lens on ‘A Film Unfinished’ In 1942, a Nazi crew arrived in Warsaw, Poland to begin filming in the Jewish ghetto, just months before its razing and the deportation of its terrorized inhabitants. In her new movie, "A Film Unfinished," Israeli filmmaker Yael Hersonski attempts… Continue reading
Jul 16 Conversation: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Turns 50 By Tom LeGro This week marks the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Lee's classic, read today in classrooms throughout the country, has sold more than 30 million copies and made a lasting impact on many writers… Continue reading