Stories about Film from October, 2006
Chile: Desert Documentary Heads to Rome
“Chileno” excitedly announces that the documentary film Deserted Memory was accepted to the United Nations International Film Festival in Rome. “Deserted Memory is a documentary on Chacabuco, an abandoned nitrate mining town in Chile's Atacama Desert, which was turned into a concentration camp under Pinochet and is still surrounded by...
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan: A Big Week
Sean Roberts notes that next is a big week for three Central Asian countries. Three very different events will take place that show how different their politics have become since independence from the Soviet Union.
Venezuelan Bloggers: A Lot More Than Politics
Regular readers of the Global Voices “daily links” coming out of Venezuela are probably left with the impression that – just a month from presidential elections – the entire country, or at least its bloggers, are single-mindedly focused on politics. And while that may be understandably true of Venezuela's anglophone...
Dominica, UK: Jean Rhys
Jeremy Taylor's dislike of the new BBC dramatisation of Dominican novelist Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea leads him to consider, among other things, Rhys's struggle to reconcile “her creole and European selves” and the British reception of her work.
Central Asia: Music & Film in Prague
Leila Tanayeva reports on the screening of three documentaries on Central Asian music that recently took place in Prague.
South Korea: expatriate experience on screen
Robert Koehler at Marmot Hole introduces a film, “Expats”, in Pusan film festival. The director Wonsuk Chin's goal is to introduce Korea to Amercian audience: Korean Wave films are doing well in Asia, but there hasn’t been a substantial American movie filmed here in decades.
Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus
Alpine Pastures – Jailoo (c) Christopher Herwig, www.herwigphotos.com It's time to strike our tents (or Kyrgyz yurts in the Jailoo in this case), the summer is over (although in Kazakhstan's capital Astana there's snow even in August…). Which also means more time for Central Asia buffs to spend in front...
Russia: Thoughts on LiveJournal/ZheZhe
The Second Blog War continues in Russia. Brad Fitzpatrick, the LiveJournal's creator, has now joined the discussion over at sup_ru LJ community: in English, he offers some explanations and apologies here (and receives 248 comments so far) and lists the bloggers’ most common questions and concerns here (123 comments so...
Nigeria/Cameroon: new African film available online
Collaboration between Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry, and Cameroon's English language film industry has produced a new film, Before the Sunrise. Scribbles from the Den writes about it: “Before the Sunrise, the first major collaboration between Nollywood and Cameroon’s budding English language film industry is now available online. The movie...
Kazakhstan: Borat, the Political Psychology
Sean Roberts explains the political psychology of the Borat-Kazakhstan relationship.
The Week That Was in Bahrain
It has been yet another busy week on the Bahraini blogsophere, with some bloggers rallying behind an anti-sectarianism campaign, Just Bahraini; others just back home from a long holiday; and one celebrating his/her (?) birthday! In local politics, Mahmood Al Yousif is keeping us abreast with all that's happening on...
Voices from Kazakhstan
Walking around the streets of Almaty, we picked up and brought for your attention the conversations from the Kazakh blogosphere. The recent visit of Kazakh President Nazarbayev to the White House was discussed by LJ user adam_kesher (RU): Roughly speaking, the United States have two reasons not to annoy Kazakhstan...
Africa: opening door to African cinema
“For decades, African cinema has been poised for the kind of international breakthrough that Asian and Middle Eastern films have enjoyed. There are lots of stories to be told and there have been directors willing and able to tell them, but the financial resources available to filmmakers on other continents...
Brazil: Busy Weekend In São Paulo
It'll be a busy weekend in Sao Paulo. Made in Brazil explains why.
South Korea: diaspora
Jodi introduces two documentaries in Pusan festival about Korea diaspora in Russia, Cuba and the U.S.
Africa: movie about blood diamond causes controversy
The director of the movie, Blood Diamond, Ed Zwick, has refused to call his work, which reflects the human cost of diamond trade in Africa, fictional as requested by the world's leading company in the diamond industry, De Beers, via Africa Media.
India: Gandhigiri
Amardeep Singh comments on Gandhigiri – or the Gandhian way of getting things as inspired by a recent Bollywood flick and the way it has entered the public dialogue in India.”Instead of Bandhs and riots, over the past couple of months protesters have been sending flowers and doing Pujas, hoping...
Congo DRC: Killer Coltan
Killer Coltan is a film by the Congolese journalist/blogger, Mvemba Dizolele, about the coltan trade in Congo DRC: “Events in war-torn Congo may seem remote, but they are no further than your cellphone or DVD player. Eastern Congo supplies 80% of the world’s coltan, a mineral essential to electronic goods.”
Kenya: global recognition for talented young Kenyans
The Makanga Report on “Young Kenyans Trail Blazing Around the World.”
Guatemala: Film: “Las Cruces… Poblado Proximo”
Patrick of the Guatemala Solidarity Network transaltes a description of the new Guatemalan film, “Las Cruces… Poblado Proximo” from Blog de mi Guatemala [ES]. Patrick also posts the trailer of the film, which is available on YouTube.
Peru: Documentary on Rural Education Competes for Prize
The following post was originally written in Spanish at Cinencuentro. “Camino a la Escuela” (“The Road to School”) competes in the Seed of Tolerance contest of Current TV The director Humberto Saco writes us to let us know that a 6 minute short version of his documentary, Camino a la...
