Six interesting documentaries – Freakonomics, Inside Job, Budrus, Marwencol, ‘Boxing Gym’ and ‘The kids Grow Up’ will be playing in select theaters across the country this month. Human behavior, 2008 economic crisis, non-violent movement, healing fantasy world, life of a boxing gym and parent-child relationship are the core themes explored in the films respectively. If [...]
On September 28th 2010 a 19 year UT student, Colton Tooley began firing an AK-47 assault rifle and eventually killed himself in the Perry Castañeda Library on campus. No one else was injured but the campus was locked down and closed for the rest of the day. Things could have turned ugly and awful like [...]
Presumed Guilty, film by Geoffrey Smith (English Patient) and Roberto Hernandez. Mexico’s Judicial System assumes that someone is guilty until proven innocent and hence the documentary film “Presumed Guilty” centered around Toño Zuniga, who is falsely accused of murder in 2005 and receives a twenty year jail sentence. Toño case is not an anomaly, this [...]
Starting October 15th 2010, every month a documentary project that is a work in progress will be chosen and featured in the “Being Made” category of this blog. Filmmakers from any where in the world who are making documentaries and want their film to be featured in this blog, please click on “BEING MADE” for [...]
SWEETHEARTS OF THE PRISON RODEO (2009) is a powerful but bittersweet documentary about female inmates who compete in the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo – film by Bradley Beasley (director of Okie Noodling). Synopsis: Since 1940, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary has held an annual ‘Prison Rodeo’. Part Wild West show and part coliseum-esque spectacle, it’s [...]
Real Talkies will be featuring a new monthly addition to the blog cast every month starting October 2010. FEATURED “BEING MADE” On the 15th of each month, one documentary film that is a work in progress, will be featured. Documentary films are our stories. Hence, the purpose of this post is that as subjects and/or [...]
Olivier Uwayezu is a Rwandan Filmmaker. When the Rwandan genocide took place, Olivier was 8 years old. Olivier has committed himself to documenting and preserving the history of that tragic chapter in his country’s history. His first film was called “1994 history” – he recorded 54 hours of personal testimonies from soldiers and genocide survivors. [...]
We run, because every time we cross the finish line after 26.2 grueling and trying miles, we feel like if we completed a marathon, we will find a way to do anything else in life. Spirit of the marathon, is the first documentary that encapsulates the experience and feeling that I share with millions other [...]
Oh how I love road trip documentaries. Ok, I am assuming that this might result in a documentary, hopefully that was the plan. Bassam Tariq is a filmmaker and filmmakers just don’t do road trips to write blogs. Aman Ali, a stand up comedian and Tariq embarked on a journey to see what life was [...]
How much is your body worth? A BBC Horizon documentary that explores how dead bodies have become big business. I was really hesitant to post this on my blog because of the rather direct and bold title. There are segments of the film that are blunt and gross.The British have their ways! But, it is [...]
