by david | Sep 21, 2016 | Film, podcasts
shley is serving as an ambassador for TIFF’s “Share Her Journey” program, which seeks to help create gender parity in the film industry. Read her letter about the program here. Ashley and I talk about her new film Werewolf, choices and addictions,...
by david | Sep 21, 2016 | Film, Human Rights, podcasts
Today we talk about a documentary which engages politics and religion, the Gaza Strip, the Middle East, and why surfing is a brilliant metaphor for community and change. For more information about Gaza Surf Club: IMDB and TIFF. Synopsis of Gaza Surf Club This handsome...
by david | Sep 21, 2016 | Film, podcasts
Maya and I talk about her important new film Forever Pure, racism, religion and hate, Israel, the cost of remaining silent, and politics as sport. Forever Pure recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. For more information about the festival go...
by david | Sep 21, 2016 | Film, podcasts, Toronto International Film Festival 2018
Raoul and I talk about white privilege, consumerism and class economics, apathy and ignorance and how most issues are not about guilt, but about “knowing”. For more information about TIFF go here. IMDB Synopsis Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final...
by david | Sep 17, 2016 | Film, podcasts
Kristina and Maja and I talk about their beautiful new film Half a Man, the Balkan War, innocence, overcoming trauma, denial and what family is really all about. TIFF Runs from: September 8th – September 18th, 2016 For more information about the festival go here....
by david | Sep 16, 2016 | Film, podcasts
We talk in this interview about Khushboo’s and Vinay’s new brilliant film “An Insignificant Man”, about social and political change and why India is a “very ambitious project”. We touch on inequality, hope and why these two young directors want to change the world....