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Revisiting Borat Territory
September 3, 2010What happened to the villagers who were misled into appearing as backward and ignorant Kazakhs in the film Borat? We find out in Carmen Meets Borat, airing Sunday, September 5 on Global Voices on PBS WORLD. Director Mercedes Stalenhoef follows the life of 17-year-old Carmen, who dreams of skipping town for a better life in Spain. Her plans to emigrate are…
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Can a Human Being Be Illegal? Thoughts on Immigration through Film
June 16, 2010The national dialogue on immigration has reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, with many municipalities declaring boycotts of Arizona over the recent enactment of a strict immigration law that critics say amounts to little more than institutionalized racial profiling. Some Arizonans, in response, have sworn to boycott the cities that demonized their…
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Community Classroom Offers Free Teaching Resources
March 24, 2010Can you own a sound? That is the provocative question raised in a new resource from ITVS Community Classroom: four lesson plans and film modules for Copyright Criminals , an innovative and dynamic documentary that explores the origins of sampling culture in hip-hop music, copyright, creativity, and technological change. This curriculum is an…