documentary
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Project Yellow : a film by an Asian guy on Asian guys.
Project Gelb (Yellow) is a film by an Asian guy about Asian guys. Canadian/Asian filmmaker Francis Luta explores how Asian males are perceived in the media and gay culture, and how it all reflects from their childhood. Luta started this journey after a modeling agency ordered him to stay out of the sun because looking…
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Ukrainian Sheriffs
The pair of Ukrainian Sheriffs featured in this intriguing odd-ball documentary written/filmed/directed and edited by Roman Bondarchuk bear no resemblance at all to anyone bearing the same title in the Wild West. But then that is hardly surprising as Stara Zburjivka their remote dilapidated village in Southern Ukraine bordering on to Crimea looks like time has…
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I Am Not Your Negro
When the credits roll on respected Haitian filmmaker Raul Peck’s powerful new documentary you will notice that the screenwriter listed is in fact the late author and social critic James Baldwin himself. This memoir/semi-biography of this great African/American man of letters which links the ideas of three assassinated leaders uses only prose lifted directly…
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Queen Mimi
When aspiring actor Yaniv Rokah got a part-time job as a barista in a coffee shop in Santa Monica he very quickly struck an unlikely friendship with Mimi a short sprightly octogenarian who worked at the Laundromat on the other side of Montana Avenue. Rokah became fascinated with this extraordinary colorful old lady who it turns…
