Profiles & Interviews
Shaking the Tree
Independent Film & Video Monthly, March 2006
Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s
Water completes a controversial trilogy.
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The Romance of Yelena Yemchuk
Photo District News, July 2006
Russian-born photographer Yelena Yemchuk channels her quirkily romantic vision into fashion photography, films and painting.
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Islamabadass
Planet, Summer 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a fearless critic of Islam. No wonder she's got enemies.
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Stephanie Says
Chronogram, May 2007
The issues of teen pregnancy and concealment at the heart of Hilary Brougher’s
Stephanie Daley were based on news stories and personal experience.
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London Underground
Salon, July 2003
Eclectic director Stephen Frears talks about his thriller
Dirty Pretty Things, Britain's new immigrant reality and the strange case of Tony Blair.
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The German Mystique
Independent Film & Video Monthly, July/August 2005
Margarethe von Trotta makes movies about women. But don't call her a feminist.
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Past Imperfect
View Camera, March/April 2007
Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman use 19th century photographic processes with a contemporary sensibility to produce their delicate, lyrical images.
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Calling Dr. Kinsey
The San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 1999
Behind the scenes with America’s favorite dragapella beauty shop quartet.
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The Photohumanist
PDN VisionAge, December 2006
Magnum photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin's lyrical photographs go beyond the news cycle to convey conflict and suffering with daring candor.
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Jamila Mujahed
Planet, Summer 2003
Once a top news broadcaster, Jamila Mujahed has become a champion of women’s rights in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
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