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NORMA PERCY: The Decisive Moment
Norma Percy is the woman behind Brook Lapping’s highly acclaimed documentary series about recent political history, including “The Death of Yugoslavia” and “Israel & the Arabs: Elusive Peace”
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DEMOCRACY PROJECT: An Interesting, Nerve-racking Experiment
The prestigious Democracy Project was launched more than two years ago and has been heavily promoted at documentary events around the world. The project since then has been in the dark for a while
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LONDON 2002: Designed to Disturb
Festivals focusing on human rights issues provide a gateway to powerful human stories and themes that might be tough to watch but need to be shown and seen. And audiences are ready. This also proved true at this year’s London edition of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. CAROL NAHRA talked to the associate…
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SHEFFIELD 2002: Atitudes and Ethics at Sheffield
Six weeks after September 11, the 8th annual Sheffield International Documentary Festival hosted fewer international delegates than in recent years, but for those making the trip the festival provided its usual down-to-earth, thought-provoking combination of documentary films and sessions looking at the art and challenges of doc-making.
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Against parental control
In "Runaway", Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini revisit the memorably fertile ground of strong Iranian women fighting against restrictive males.
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Missionary zeal and colonialism
Ghini has a problem. If he is going to embrace Christianity and be baptised before the arrival of the Messiah in 2000, he has to give up one of his wives.