by david | Sep 5, 2018 | Film, podcasts, Toronto International Film Festival 2018
Nandita Das and David Peck talk about her new film Manto, dignity and context, subversive push back, normalized equality, deep convictions, having a social conscience and activism and why you need to be yourself, because everyone else is already taken. Trailer...
by david | Aug 15, 2018 | Business, Film, podcasts
Filming in difficult conditions led producer Marina Cordoni to comment that she faced, …one of the most important days of her life. This was on the set of the new film Never Saw It Coming. This is a feminist drama starring her and director Gail Harvey. Keisha Ceylon...
by david | Jun 13, 2018 | Film, Human Rights, International Development, Social Justice
Margarita Cadenas and David Peck talk about her new film Women of the Venezuelan Chaos, truth and justice, human rights abuses, food shortages and why we must speak truth to power. Synopsis Five Venezuelan women, from different backgrounds and generations, draw a...
by david | Jun 11, 2018 | Film, Human Rights, podcasts, Social Justice
Velcrow Ripper, Nova Ami and David Peck talk about the myth of Proteus, cynicism, grieving loss, submersive art, futurelessness and what wise and radical hope really looks like. Synopsis A poem for the planet, Nova Ami and Velcow Ripper’s film Metamorphosis takes the...
by david | Jun 6, 2018 | Film, Human Rights, Politics, Social Justice
Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan and David Peck talk about The Oslo Diaries, secret meetings, common languages, enemies as friends, land disputes and what we’re leaving behind for our children. Synopsis In 1992, with Israeli-Palestinian relations at an all-time low and any...
by david | May 30, 2018 | Film, Human Rights, Social Justice
Matthew Shoycet, Ricki Gurwitz and David Peck talk about their new film The Accountant of Auschwitz, guilt, complicity, brainwashing and where one draws moral versus legal lines. Synopsis In the sleepy town of Luneberg, Germany, most days are quiet and uneventful. But...