Portrait of a Survivor
Leah Warshawki was interviewed in CityArts about her forthcoming documentary Big Sonia.
Loung Ung’s work to be adapted for Netflix by Angelina Jolie
Author and activist Loung Ung survived the Cambodian Genocide as a child. Now her internationally recognized memoir ‘First They Killed My Father’ is going to be adapted for film by Netflix and Angelina Jolie. Oscar-winning actress Jolie Pitt, who directed 2014’s Unbroken, read Ung’s book, which was published in 2000, and the two became close …
Read more “Loung Ung’s work to be adapted for Netflix by Angelina Jolie”
Eli Kimaro interview for Sarasota Film Festival
Filmmaker and activist Eli Kimaro was interviewed for in advance of her documentary’s screening at the Sarasota Film Festival. Check it out! http://www.sarasotafilmfestival.com/2-uncategorised/108-saturday-at-the-festival-sneak-peek-exclusive-interview-with-a-lot-like-you-director-eliaichi-kimaro
Warren Etheredge at the Northwest Filmmaker’s Festival
Check out this teaser in Portland’s Vanguard paper about Warren Etheredge‘s recent event at the Northwest Filmmaker’s Festival: http://psuvanguard.com/arts/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/ He gave his cherished lecture/workshop ‘What’s Wrong With This Picture?’
Re-watch Warren Etheredge’s interview with Mike Daisey
Watch Warren’s interview with Mike Daisey from September 2011 (at 4:31 Mike says “I believe in fact checking”!). This takes on a whole new meaning after ‘This American Life’ retracted Mike Daisey’s popular 39 minute podcast about Apple factory abuses, originally aired in January. Listen to NPR’s retraction episode here. Is it art or is it …
Read more “Re-watch Warren Etheredge’s interview with Mike Daisey”
A Lot Like You wins Best Documentary at SF Asian American Film Festival!
Congrats to filmmaker Eli Kimaro! Her documentary A Lot Like You won Best Documentary at the 30th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival!
Amazing review of A Lot Like You!
Check out this awesome review of Eli Kimaro‘s documentary A Lot Like You, after it’s recent screening at the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. Here is an excerpt: “Films like ‘A Lot Like You’ are the future of making cross-cultural exchange and understanding available and relevant to the masses. Now we just have to …
Season 3 of The High Bar begins on KBTC
Season 3 of Warren Etheredge‘s show The High Bar premiered last night on KBTC with an interview with comedian, author and actor Larry Miller. Congrats, Warren! http://thehighbar.tv/2012/02/07/larry-miller-on-a-better-life/
Warren Etheredge: new video on Such a Character
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
A Lot Like You accepted at San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival!
A Lot Like You, the documentary directed by Eli Kimaro continues its festival run with the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival in March of 2012. Congrats Eli!