Sheila Nevins

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory on HBO

Regina Weinreich | Posted 03.13.2012

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Last October when the documentary Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory premiered at the New York Film Festival, filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky celebrated an unanticipated event: the release from prison of the West Memphis 3.

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The Sound Of Mumbai On HBO

Regina Weinreich | Posted 01.22.2012

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A film set in India recreating a classic American Rogers & Hammerstein musical set in Austria. In the heat of lower class neighborhoods of Mumbai, "Climb Every Mountain" takes on new meaning.

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The West Memphis 3 Reunite In New York City

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Paradise Lost 3, Damien Echols, Joe Berlinger, West Memphis 3 New York, HBO Documentary, Sheila Nevins, Documentary, Hbo Films, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley, Paradise Lost, West Memphis 3 Reunion, West Memphis 3, Bruce Sinofsky, Culture News

After serving over 18 years in prison for the murders of three boys in West Memphis, Ark., Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley -- or th...

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Happy Endings at HBO: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Regina Weinreich | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Jessie Misskelley, Sheila Nevins, Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols, Bruce Sinofsky, Joe Berlinger, Culture News

For documentary filmmakers, it doesn't get better than this: having your work bring about change.

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Remembering 9/11: Portraits of Resilience

Regina Weinreich | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: Stephen Daldry, Sheila Nevins, James Toback, Julie Taymor, Portraits of Resilience, Marco Grob, 9/11 Memorial, 9/11 Anniversary, September 11 Anniversary, Decade After 9/11 - Remembering, Portraits of Resilience Show, Culture News

You could feel the weight of the occasion at the Milk Gallery in the Meatpacking District on Thursday night, the site of a portrait exhibition and screening of a documentary marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

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Gloria: In Her Own Words -- A Life in Activism

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.15.2011

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Why did Gloria Steinem evolve into a symbol of so much to so many? It's impossible to know. She became a vessel through which some women discovered themselves, their potential, and the strength to advocate for their own truths.

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Gloria Steinem on Michele Bachmann and the Women's Movement

Regina Weinreich | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Candy Crowley, Gloria Steinem, Director Peter Kunhardt, Sheila Nevins, Betty Friedan, Hillary Clinton, Bella Abzug, Culture News

For a public person, Gloria Steinem, 77, the writer and activist who is for many people the face of feminism, knows how to get up close and personal.

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Worlds of Pain: From Wartorn to Tiny Furniture

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hbo, Sheila Nevins, James Gandolfini, Wartorn:1861-2010, Hbo Wartorn, Tiny Furniture, Lena Dunham, Entertainment News

Both films deal with pain, but virtually issuing from different planets. In Wartorn it's distress of the suicide-inducing variety. In Tiny Furniture it's privileged misery -- the romantic humiliation of a plumpish young woman.

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Boy Interrupted: Interview with Filmmaker Dana Perry

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Hbo, Scott Perry, Jed Foundation, Bipolar Disorder, Evan Perry, Dana Perry, Nancy Abraham, Suicide, Teen Suicide, Hart Perry, Sheila Nevins, Boy Interrupted, Teenagers, Entertainment News

The documentary film Boy Interrupted not only tells the story of a 15-year-old's death by suicide, but it also tells the story of a mother's anguish dealing with her son's lifelong disease of bipolar mental disorder.

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Doc Director Megan Mylan Brings Smile Pinki to the World

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

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The story behind the making of this year's winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary Short -- Smile Pinki -- is something of a fairy tale equal to the story within the film.

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Trapped in Section 60: an Interview with the Directors of "Section 60: Arlington Nation Cemetery"

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

Matt O'Neill: The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have become the background noise in this presidential election. No one is paying attention right now.

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