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Yesterday I saw Up in the Air. I guess writing about the screening of the airport documentary shorts at Anthology got me in the mood to see the much more commercial version of Frequent Flyer. Feeling special is a funny thing and sometimes we go to great lengths for those little things that make us feel [...]

Anthology Film Archives is continuing their NewFilmmakers Series into 2010. The series, which offers regular screenings into the first several months of the year has selected films and videos often overlooked by traditional film festivals.  It’s a terrific showcase for a variety of works and talents, but in particular it’s a great showcase for documentary shorts [...]

Criterion released yet another impressive dvd set last month.  The Golden Age of Television 3 disc set is a collection of 1950′s teleplays that are a unique art form in themselves and unlike what we watch on modern television today.  This group of selects include the original teleplay, Marty (written by the great Paddy Chyefsky [...]

I know the last several entries have been focused on the same subject, but I believe mulling over humanitarianism is worth considerable thought. Earlier this year, I went to see Dr. James Orbinski M.D. speak.  The former President of Doctors Without Borders was at an Upper West Side theatre to promote his book An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian [...]

“You have to ask yourself, what is our limit?” says Dr. Chiara Lepora in Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders. The monday night screening and live broadcast from Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on the NYU campus included a post discussion which included two doctors from the film, Dr. Tom Krueger and Christopher [...]

Monday night Elizabeth Vargas will moderate a panel following the presentation of the Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders documentary that is incidentally on the Oscar short list for 2009.  Earlier this year I saw Dr. James Orbinski, the former President of Doctor’s Without Borders (MSF), speak to promote his book, An Imperfect [...]

This past Saturday, although very tired from the previous evening’s Voices of Afghanistan event, I managed to drag myself to Manhattan Edit Workshop’s Masterclass Series A Filmmaker’s Guide to DVD StudioPro. What I found was that I knew more about DVD Studio Pro than I thought I did.  I didn’t get a whole lot of [...]

Artfully Unforgotten put on an amazing event on Friday night.  Below is a slideshow of the evening.  It was a great success by having a terrific turnout and raising much need funds for women and children of Afghanistan.  Proceeds from the event will go to Mashale Noor School and Bpeace. Heather Metcalfe, Founder and Director [...]

Tomorrow night, don’t miss Voices of Afghanistan. A multimedia exhibit composed of Artfully Unforgotten’s vidoe short “VOICES OF AFGHANISTAN” together with Afghan inspired artwork created by the students of Parsons The New School for Design. All artwork will be for sale in benefit of the women and children of Afghanistan served by Bpeace and the [...]

Since I’ve been editing a piece on women and children of Afghanistan, I have been doing a good amount of reading on subjects ranging Afghanistan’s history, to it’s culture, the muslim faith and a female’s role in all of it.  The book I’ve recently come across is written by a Scandinavian of all things. Åsne [...]