Movies
Mau Mau, Marx, & Coca Cola: 18th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival
March 3, 2010The 18th annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival was a U.S. showcase for independent, studio, student, foreign (especially African) political and progressive pictures.
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And the winner is … top progressive movie awards for 2009 announced
March 3, 2010Progressive Cinema critic Bill Meyer announces the James Agee Cinema Circle Progie Award winners from 2009.
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Movies, not bombs, are state’s biggest job-creation program since WWII
February 17, 2010SANTA FE, N.M. - A film and media day here this month spotlighted the massive job-creating potential of movies and the arts. The film industry is this state's "biggest job creation program since the Manhattan Project,"...
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One family’s “American Violet” experience
February 8, 2010When I saw "American Violet" recently, it really hit close to home. I kept flashing back to my family's own encounters with the law.
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Films provoke disturbing image: ‘world war’ against women
January 11, 2010With the spectacular response of the movie "Precious," this might be the moment that some movies are sending urgent messages to us about a "world war" against women.
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