“Girl Rising” is a new film by director Richard Robbins that tells the stories of nine such girls throughout the world. http://ow.ly/iWyLY
Children are saving lives in the slums of Kolkata. Amlan Ganguly doesn’t rescue slum children; he empowers them to become change agents, battling poverty and transforming their neighborhoods with dramatic results. Filmed over the course of several years, The Revolutionary Optimists follows Amlan and three of the children he works with on an intimate journey through adolescence, as they fight for the better future he encourages them to imagine is deservedly theirs.
Two of the five documentary films nominated for an Oscar this year are about the same thing: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“The Gatekeepers” is large in scope, covering more than four decades of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Two of the five documentary films nominated for an Oscar this year are about the same thing: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
One of them, “5 Broken Cameras,” is about a Palestinian peasant, his family and their village in the West Bank.
Two of the five documentary films nominated for an Oscar this year are about the same thing: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But they come at the issue from two very different perspectives. http://ow.ly/h0e8M
