Feb 28 2010

Pocket cinema: The Children of Darfur by Camilla Nielsson

This week I’m going to be mostly concentrated on watching great documentary films at the festival ZagrebDox… Thus, this post is strongly connected with its programme… Camilla Nielsson will present within the programme her latest film ‘Cities on Speed – Mumbai Disconnected‘… and as an intro to moviecholic atmosphere here is her award winning documentary from 2007 ‘The Children of Darfur’…

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Photo above: Excerpt from the film The Children of Darfur
Photo bellow: Georgina Cranston (c) taken from UNICEF

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Dec 29 2009

Interview with Chao Gan: Watching films is like dreaming

Chao Gan’s striking documentary The Red Race was the winner of Zagreb Film Festival in 2008. This year Gan was a jury member in documentary competition of the same festival. It was really a great opportunity to talk with him about his carrier, The Red Race and development of documentary genre in China.

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Oct 25 2009

Body cinema: War Dance

Striking documentary film ‘War Dance‘ by Sean Fine and  Andrea Nix Fine is one of the most awarded documentaries in the season 2007-08, thematizing political aspects and traditional dance of Africa… I saw it last year at Zagreb Dox

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Sep 4 2009

Pocket cinema: Born into Brothels

Documentary film Born into Brothels by Zana Briski and Ross Kaufmann about ‘the children of Red Light District’ in Calcutta  is rather known to the audience connected with fields of human rights and photography. This film was accepted widely and awarded internationally over last five years, but its topics – prostitution and poverty, remain unsolved and opened.

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May 4 2009

E-learning: Hip Hop Dance Moves for Kids, part II

Who’z gonna catch u after all these smooth moves and cool walkz… robot walkz… well, it’s not over! The second part of playing with Hip hop waits to be finished…

Cool…

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