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New Film "Stories We Tell" Explores Family Secrets and Unreliable Memories

Movies post by Kerensa Cadenas on May 9, 2013 - 12:58pm; tagged documentary, family, mothers.

Filmmaker Sarah Polley

Director Sarah Polley looks for her family truths through the unreliable nature of storytelling in Stories We Tell.

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New Documentary "My Child" Shows Turkish Families Loving Their LGBT Kids

Movies post by Oktay Ege Kozak on April 12, 2013 - 12:22pm; tagged documentary, LGBT, queer, transgender, Turkey.

A big pro-gay march in Turkey

It’s a given that the Middle East has a long way to go as far as LGBT acceptance is concerned. Remember that sound byte of Ahmadinejad claiming that Iran doesn’t have any homosexuals? Turkey is supposed to be the most secular and liberal Muslim country in the Middle East, yet its religious, right wing government still considers homosexuality to be a disease.

The emotional new Turkish documentary My Child successfully defends the idea that acceptance in any society begins with acceptance at home.

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Read Our Review and Watch a Clip of New Documentary "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners"

Movies post by Randall Jenson on April 5, 2013 - 3:54pm; tagged activism, Angela Davis, documentary.

Drawing of Angela Davis

Director Shola Lynch spent eight years researching intricacies surrounding activist and scholar Angela Davis—she wanted to make sure that her film documenting Davis’s controversial 1972 murder trial got the story right. And, well, she did.

A review and clip of her new film Free Angela and All Political Prisoners are below the cut.

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New Stevie Nicks Film "In Your Dreams" is Only for the Superfans

Movies post by Kerensa Cadenas on March 26, 2013 - 10:52am; tagged documentary, feminism, fleetwood mac, music, stevie nicks, Twilight.

Stevie Nicks dressed in black.
I love Stevie Nicks. Who doesn't? However, I came upon her music only within the last couple years—I'm by no means a Stevie expert. So I was excited to see In Your Dreams, the new film Nicks and collaborator Dave Stewart directed, at SXSW this month; the screening was a chance to learn more about Stevie from herself and an opportunity to wear a Stevie-approved ensemble (long flowing skirt obviously).

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Backlot Bitch: The AIDS Crisis As Told By Two Recent Documentaries

Movies post by Monica Castillo on October 16, 2012 - 11:19am; tagged AIDS, documentary, film, How to Survive a Plague, movie, We Were Here.

A still photo from We Were Here of a gay couple kissing next to a straight couple who are avoiding looking at them.

Two recent documentaries, two different coasts, one scary enemy, and hundreds of hours of footage. This is the history and legacy of the AIDS crisis in North America, as told by the cameras and concerned filmmakers who were there.

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Backlot Bitch: Retrieving the Past to Educate Our Future

Movies post by Monica Castillo on October 12, 2012 - 9:37am; tagged Anna May Wong, documentary, film, Li Ling-Ai, movie.
The name Li Ling Ai is a mystery to film historians. Without her film available, we might never find out about one of the first Asian American producers in Hollywood history.
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Seven Islands and a Metro and Manipur: Be Whoever You Want to Be, As Long As You Look Like Us

Movies post by Battameez on June 22, 2012 - 11:37am; tagged books, documentary, manipur, movies, Seven Islands and a Metro.
What does it mean when brands of liberal feminism erase the histories of labor, caste, and communal segregation in their re-tellings of the city? And are still considered feminist texts?
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Visi(bi)lity: How Bideology Battles Biphobia

Sex and Sexuality post by Carrie Nelson on April 18, 2012 - 12:28pm; tagged Arielle Loren, Bideology, biphobia, bisexual, bisexual visibility, bisexuality, documentary, The Bi-deology Project, Visi(bi)lity, web series.

A pink silhouette of a woman has her arms around a black silhouette of a man. The man is touching both the woman and a grey silhouette of another man, standing behind him. The text at the bottom reads “BIDEOLOGY.” “BI” is in pink and “DEOLOGY” is in black. The first “O” is the Mars symbol, and the second “O” is the Venus symbol.Straight women: would you ever date a bisexual man? Do you think that bisexual men are more likely to spread STDs than straight men? Do you think that bisexual men are more feminine than straight men? These questions have preoccupied writer and filmmaker Arielle Loren’s work for the last few years. After falling in love with a bisexual man, Loren developed The Bi-deology Project, a two-part web series exploring straight women’s perceptions of bisexual men, particularly in the context of romantic relationships. The series has since inspired a feature-length documentary, Bideology, which will be premiering at film festivals this spring.

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Visi(bi)lity: Bi the Way and the Realities of Bisexuality

Sex and Sexuality post by Carrie Nelson on March 7, 2012 - 1:11pm; tagged Bi the Way, bisexual, bisexual visibility, bisexuality, documentary, film, Visi(bi)lity.

A green and white highway sign featuring the title "Bi the Way" and the subheading "It's a both/and world." Below the sign is an image of Earth, and the background is black space with white stars. In 2005, Brittany Blockman and Josephine Decker took a road trip across the United States and interviewed people about bisexuality. The result of their project was a documentary film: Bi the Way. In order to understand the fictional images of bisexuality that fill our cinema and television screens, it’s important to take some time to analyze the ways in which bisexuality is depicted in nonfiction media. Bi the Way is a good starting place, since it’s a film that allows its subjects to speak honestly and freely, without an overt agenda from the filmmakers. But is that enough to make it a compelling film that advances realistic bisexual visibility?

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In Her Own Words: Gloria Steinem on HBO

Movies post by Kelsey Wallace on August 17, 2011 - 11:11am; tagged documentary, Gloria Steinem, HBO, In Her Own Words.
Much of the publicity for the new HBO documentary Gloria: In Her Own Words tells us that the movie was made because young people don't know who Steinem is. As people who are currently reading/writing feminist blog content, you and I probably aren't who they're talking about. Still, whether you're a seasoned veteran of the feminist movement or one of these young whippersnappers the media are warning us about, the biopic is worth a watch.

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