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...experience in cinema, particularly not in Hollywood films. When I read the script, I was shocked at the events and I was also really impressed that a studio had the balls to get it out there. THC: Your film seems outwardly similar to films like “A Civil Action” or “Erin Brockovich.” How do you distinguish your film from the variety of courtroom dramas? NC: How I distinguish this from a great film like “Erin Brockovich” is sex. I feel that the issue...
...showing violence against children on-screen.“Innocent Voices,” Mexico’s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, is built on the experiences of its co-writer, Oscar Torres, from his childhood during El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war. Torres lived through these events, and wrote from the perspective of his 12-year-old self. “The night before we shot [the execution scene], I was doing the shot list in my room,” says director Luis Mandoki in an interview with The Harvard...
...provide a place where people who do want to come out can do that.” “It’s not just that people come out,” said Cheryl Jacques, a former Massachusetts State Senator, current Institute of Politics fellow, and national gay civil rights advocate. “It’s that people come in. And what I mean by that is that straight allies join the fight. This is not just a gay person’s fight; this is every person’s fight.” Mischa...
...relatively safe place in Kashmir, despite its near proximity to the Line of Control. Aside from some stray shelling every few years from across the Pakistani border 12 miles away, Qumayom says his hometown was an island of peace amid the violence that swept Indian Kashmir when a civil war erupted between Indian soldiers and Muslim militants in 1989. ?Uri was safe,? he says. ?Nothing happened here. It?s always been a place apart. The soldiers did their duties and we did our jobs. We didn't bother each other...
...black mud slick that extends to a peak more than 3,000 ft. above. "Are you looking for dead bodies?" asks a young man carrying a box on his shoulders. He points to the slide. "There are 90 dead bodies in that." Tawoos Hussain Manhas, 20, is a civil servant who works in the capital of Indian Kashmir, Srinagar, but who was brought up in the village of Kamal Kote, a few miles away from Uri. When he heard of the disaster, he drove home to help out. He hasn't washed or slept since. The army, whose presence...