Activist Jen Marlowe‘s play There is A Field was adapted for the radio stage, and Part I was broadcast on blubrry. You can also hear Jen being interviewed about the play and the Palestinian teenager on which it is based.
Journalist Quinn Norton has been reporting on the Anonymous computer hacking movement for Wired magazine. Her last installment for 2011 is called 2011: The Year Anonymous Took On Cops, Dictators and Existential Dread, andĀ was so insightful it was featured on Boing Boing. Keep up the good work, Quinn!
Filmmaker Eli Kimaro is featured in the January 29th issue of Seattle Times. This thorough article describes Eli’s journey of making the documentary A Lot Like You, and what she found when she started investigating her father’s Tanzanian culture.
We have a new video for speaker/instructor Warren Etheredge – it’s actually a video explaining his workshop for film students ‘Such a Character’: https://www.samaralectures.com/speakers-names/warren-etheredge/?post_type=speaker-videos
New video of Loung Ung from the Omega Institute, explaining the moment she went from being an activist to a writer: https://www.samaralectures.com/speakers-names/loung-ung/?post_type=speaker-videos
Interviewer and film critic Warren Etheredge interviews actor Gary Oldman on his show The High Bar. They talk about his role in the recently release Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and trust and loyalty in real life: http://thehighbar.tv/2011/12/24/gary-oldman-on-trust-and-loyalty/
Author, filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe‘s latest book is titled ‘The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinianās Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker‘ and is co-written with Palestinian activist Sami Al-Jundi. Read the review on Mondoweiss, which includes “The book is a faithful telling of one manās story thatās a microcosm of the Palestinian story and, in …
Read more “Excellent book review of Jen Marlowe’s latest book!”
Two new videos of filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe discussing the death penalty. One is from Yes Magazine Online, where she details the story of Troy Davis, a man recently executed in the state of Georgia despite strong evidence of innocence, and the other is an interview with RTAmerica where she talks about the country’s …
A Lot Like You, the documentary directed by Eli Kimaro continues its festival run with theĀ San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival in March of 2012. Congrats Eli!
Filmmaker and director of A Lot Like You, Eli Kimaro speaks to BBC Africa reporter Leslie Goffe about what she discovered about her own culture and how she got there. Listen to the podcast here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16289240