Run For — Not From — "The Hills"!

"In honor of this week's premiere of season four of MTV's "The Hills," I'd like to ruminate a bit on the end of the world. Not really, but you'll get what I mean."Every week, independent journalist Tom Roston checks...

"Up the Yangtze" Premieres in New York

Up the Yangtze, a new documentary about the impact of the Three Gorges Dam project in China by Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang, opens in New York City at the IFC Center tomorrow. The film has won numerous awards on the...

New project aims to foster Middle East filmmaking talent

Incubating talent They say a good story has to have a beginning, a middle and an end. This story has an excellent and dramatic beginning, a beginning so chaotic and fraught with danger that it almost put the...

Impressions from Istanbul: A city of contrasts

Last week I traveled to Istanbul to cover the Greenhouse project - an EU funded program to develop documentary film and filmmakers from the Middle East and Mediterranean. My feature will come out this Friday,...

Sneak a peek: "Playing Columbine"

While filmmaker and video game creator Danny Ledonne finishes editing his new documentary, "Playing Columbine," you might want to take a sneak peek at this upcoming documentary's trailer, now online here: Playing...

'Bridge' suicides hard to watch or forget

"The Bridge: Documentary about people who have committed suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge. Physical beauty, without a spiritual component, has a kind of cruelty to it. It represents a promise that can't be delivered, a challenge that can't be met, and a standard by which...

Electric cars merit new look

"The electric car is dead. Long live the electric car. Who Killed the Electric Car?, a documentary film playing in selected cities, alleges that a conspiracy among Detroit, Big Oil and the government in the 1990s...

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