In addition to making documentaries and shorts, I've had the privilege to direct music videos for talented and inspiring artists.

In the last few months, I've directed "The Wish" for Raquy, an American playing Middle Eastern music, and "Mun Nuer" for a young Nuer singer whose...

Matthew Kohn interviews
Mel Duncan,
Executive Director, Nonviolent Peaceforce and
Rolf Carriere,
Senior Advisor, Nonviolent Peaceforce

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When the US surrounded Iraq at the start of the second Iraq war, I imagined that if our military forces just remained at...

As we wind closer to the date of the midterm elections, our friends, relatives and some brave co-workers are going to bombard us with reading lists.

So I decided to bite the bullet and curate an idiosyncratic group of thoughtful and distinguished individuals to choose one substantive, surprising, and...

Lately, our headlines have been taken up by tragic applications of our right to free speech. One bonehead from Florida can set the stage.

I say let's look at a different group of people getting together for entirely the opposite reasons.

On September 15th, a small group of individuals and...

For the last two and a half years I have been working on a feature documentary about Sudan.

The film is about a small organization and their friends fighting an uphill battle to promote reconciliation between the marginalized people of Sudan. One way they do this is to make videos....