Rosanna Brough investigates a potential solution to the UK's housing problem, as part of her final year university project: BA Broadcast Journalism at Nottingham Trent University - a short film/documentary entitled "Empty, Homeless, Occupy" via the independent charity site Empty Homes.
May 19, 2010
This is a short film on some of the atrocities that befall our world, especially the children, we have heard and seen. A thought provoking piece directed and edited by the brother Evan Mark does put things into some kind of perspective with the imagery, facts and figures on Child - slavery, slaves, and labour. [...]
May 4, 2010
A compelling and award winning short film written, directed and shot in Phillipines by aspiring photographer and filmmaker Chetan Raghuram from the India, starring – Lloyd Vergara, Kisha Palermo and Theresa Palermo. Chetan‘s film is the story of Rebello, an eight-year-old living in the slums of Cebu with his younger sister and mother. While his [...]
April 16, 2010
Noam Chomsky as Howard Zinn [RIP] is a veteran political activist and professor of MIT, here he talks bigthink about love. Excerpt [Transcript] Question: What is love? Noam Chomsky: I just know it’s—has an unbreakable grip, but I can’t tell you what it is. It’s just life’s empty without it. [Source: bigthink] Ladies and gentlemen, [...]
March 23, 2010
Age speaks wisdom, here are some words from retired Coach John Wooden at TED. With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father’s wisdom. Have a [...]
March 8, 2010
This is a poignant 25 minute short film entitled “A War For Your Soul“, by a brother & filmmaker Reginald Bullock that carries themes that are universal, relevant not only to the USA but worldwide as we have this problem in spades in certain countries and vast in others with regards to violence amongst the youth. [...]
March 3, 2010
"Strangers" is a silent short film shot by writer and director team Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv in 2007 [a favourite amongst the Interwebs click and building] with a poignant message I believe of "tolerance", a better snippet and gist of the storyline:
February 20, 2010
Right about now, we pause on the music international for a second to feature in a couple of seconds an interview [2 short parts] by a brother Beyonder [ UK multimedia artist, educator & presenter] with guest, I came across a brother months ago, recently and honestly saw him at Ctrl.Alt.Shift United Underground show, but [...]
February 11, 2010
Dr. Sunitha Krishnan is a mental health professional and runs Prajwala [non-governmental organization in India] crusading & campaigning against the inhumane evil of trafficking in children. At the tail end of last year, Dr. Sunitha Krishnan who has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market, gave a [...]
January 28, 2010
Howard Zinn [RIP] an American historian and social activist whose take on history “People’s History” was going against the grain [what is taught, studied in school and beyond] , past and current state of affairs. People always have differing opinions whether they agree with Howard Zinn and others or not, he who wrote the “A [...]
January 16, 2010
This is an awarding winning 37 minute short film documentary, by film makers Justin Brandon, Brian McElroy & Dan Schnorr slated for the film festival circuit and DVD release entitled “The Road to Fondwa“. The film is an engaging portrait of Fondwa (a town in Haiti), demonstrating its potential with a focus and togetherness from the community to [...]
January 12, 2010
Whilst we wait in anticipation of the Distant Relatives album by Damain Marley and Nas release date 16th March 2010. Years prior, siblings Julian and Stephen Marley worked on a remix project according to today’s music story, covering songs by father and legend Bob Nesta Marley with renown artists in Erykah Badu, Guru, Rakim, Lauryn [...]
January 4, 2010
Came as across this via a status update by Daoud Abu-Bakr aka DJAfrican an aspiring film maker. Some African countries are still corrupt, conflict rife, poor health, hunger, poor water, selfishness.. these plus more are stifling the growth of a vastly natural resourced Africa, a highlighter than most, this short film sheds a bright light [...]
December 29, 2009
I continue the sequence ala “I Am He” with this Oscar nominated film short “New Boy” by Steph Green in association with Zanzibar Films, a truthful tale of a young African boy with a haunting back story starting school in Ireland, and finds out quickly and exactly what it means to be the new kid. [...]
December 28, 2009
This is a poignant and compelling low budget short drama film with sprinkles of humour titled “I Am He” shot and edited by Hoodlum Media on the illness locked-in syndrome. Locked-in syndrome is a condition in which a patient is aware and awake, but cannot move or communicate due to complete paralysis of nearly all [...]
June 2, 2010