Slavery man-to-man is the saddest thing in the world.
By Cynthia Fuchs 5 April 2011 PopMatters Film and TV Editor You can’t change these ideas until you get out and see other possibilities. —Tizlam “Is it true my white grandmother beat you as a child?” asks 15-year-old Leil, Her mother, Fetim, looks at her hard, still chewing her lunch. They sit at a table, a […]
Stolen: Shining a Light on Modern Day Slavery by Rahul Chadha, April 07, 2011 The morality issue at play in the film Stolen is Manichean in its clarity—slavery is unarguably one of the most abhorrent crimes that humanity can perpetrate against itself. But as filmmakers Dan Fallshaw and Violeta Ayala discovered, the politics of sharing the […]
Australian filmmakers Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw go to the Polisario governed refugee camps in the Algerian desert to make a film about a family reunion. Everything changes when the black Saharawis start to talk about a different subject…Their freedom.
