Word: mallozziã
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...Mallozzi??s work is so gripping and unrelentingly committed to understanding the kids’ life-altering problems that, while watching, I couldn’t help but wonder how she had wrangled with that sacred cow of documentary filmmaking: objectivity. So, in the post-viewing Q&A session, I’ve just asked her how she managed to maintain objectivity during such painful periods in her subjects’ lives, and whether or not she intervened at all. Immediately after I’ve spoken, I realize that my question could present her with a dangerous...
...successful run through the film festival circuit, and garnered first prize at the National Council on Family Relations Media Competition. The Boston Phoenix described it as “ingratiatingly unpretentious,” and that turn of phrase could really be used to describe the essence of Mallozzi??s personality and approach to filmmaking...
...Mallozzi??s tumultuous struggle to resolve ethno-cultural identity was less easily resolved, but she used her personal quest for self-understanding as the fuel for her first major documentary, 1999’s critically-acclaimed Once Removed. The film followed Mallozzi as she made her first journey to Communist China in order to learn about her family’s experiences during the Cultural Revolution...
...prime example of this lack of pretension is Monkey Dance itself. The film is not in wide release (check out Mallozzi??s website at www.juliemallozzi.com for future screenings), but anyone who has the opportunity should jump at the chance...
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