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...decided to return to what had been an adolescent hobby, playing with a video camera. In 2003, they asked their church for $20,000 to form a production company, Sherwood Pictures, and make a movie, Flywheel, about a dishonest used car salesman who sees the light. Flywheel got a local theatrical release and a pickup by Blockbuster Video, and went on to sell more than 200,000 DVDs. But it was Sherwood Pictures' second film, Facing the Giants, a 2006 parable of football and faith, that earned the Kendricks notice in Hollywood. Produced for $100,000, the movie was dismissed...
...screening and discussion of the documentary film “Revolution ’67” at Harvard Law School last night explored issues of protest and community organization with an audience from throughout Harvard’s schools and the local community. The film, a documentary originally produced for and shown on PBS in 2007, portrays the black community’s violent riots in Newark, New Jersey, in the summer of 1967. It goes on to discuss how “the plight of the poor is forgotten” in the history...
Particular landscapes can have a strong emotional impact on artists, and for first-time writer and director Lance Hammer, who screened his debut feature “Ballast” at the Harvard Film Archive on Monday, that locale proved to be the Mississippi Delta. The film, which has won numerous accolades, reflects not only Hammer’s sensitivity to place, but also the authenticity of the characters who inhabit that place. “I was unprepared for the experience, a deep connection to something I cannot articulate,” Hammer said, describing his experience living...
With the most popular big hotel now destroyed and local restaurants frequented by westerners the target of extremists - Luna Caprese, one of the few places in this Islamic country where you could have a glass of wine with a meal, was bombed in March - Islamabad's sleepy night life has slipped into a veritable coma. Throw in regular power cuts, soaring food inflation and an economy teetering on recession and the citizens of Pakistan's capital are pretty stressed...
...redrawing the map - on a daily basis - of where travel is advisable and where it's not. "Sometimes the whole population knows something and the tourist doesn't know," says Andre Mann, the American director of Great Game Travel who arrived in Afghanistan over three years ago. "The local officials, security networks and international organizations we have relationships with all give us a heads-up if they see a shift in tactics by the Taliban or a change in security on a certain road." The company acts accordingly, switching a route to a city, deciding to fly instead of driving...