While we celebrate our singers and actors and, therefore, our songwriters and screenwriters, poetry is one of the hidden arts of American English. Chris Felver's charming new documentary Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder is about an orphan who volunteered for the Navy out of patriotism but then became disgusted with...

In 2012, this is our truth: an unprecedented weather catastrophe has devastated several states shortly before a very close presidential election; most Americans are voting on ballots and machines organized and owned by private corporations; election administrators are terminally understaffed while both presidential campaigns have thousands of lawyers ready to...

Surviving Progress is a new feature documentary directed by Mathieu Roy, co-directed by Harold Crooks, executive produced by Martin Scorsese and produced by the director of The Corporation, Mark Achbar. It has just been released on DVD. In one of the excellent supplementary interviews, Jim Thomas, a technology activist, asserts...

Despite fifty years of civil war, three ethnic genocides in Sudan have remained hidden until long after they have occurred. Now, the citizens of north Sudan are in the middle of a nonviolent, homegrown protest. Over the last ten days, there have been protests not only in Khartoum, the capitol...

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....