A few weeks ago, I saw the New York premier of The Reckoning at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. The crowd was quite astonishing. Two of the International Criminal Court prosecutors featured in the film, Christine Chung and Fatou Bensouda, were in attendance. The top brass from...

Last week I looked at the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, through the eyes of a journalist and his fixer in the film Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi, Today, I revisit the subject, but this time through the lens of the Troop Greeters of Bangor, Maine who are...

Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi is a documentary that follows Christian Parenti, a Nation journalist, on a fact gathering trip through Afghanistan. As he travels around the country, meeting with Taliban leaders, villagers and any other potential source of information, Ian Olds, the filmmaker, is in the back seat...

Last week I interviewed a Brit, Andy Lang, about his new film based in Cuba. I was thinking Global then, but this week's interview is all about acting local. Saturday morning I woke up early and suited up in full-body rain-gear, then trudged through the downpour to my rendezvous point...

I spent the weekend in North Carolina at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and had the great pleasure of getting to see many inspiring and thought provoking films. Sons of Cuba was one of the highlights. It is a film about child boxers, who are training to...