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 Founder and Board Chair Susan Weeks Coulter traveled to Vienna this past week to take part in the UNAOC panel on media and intercultural dialogue…Continue reading FEATURE: Global Migration-More Than The Birds THE PARADE brings the global conversation on gay rights into focus in Serbia, France and Canada…
This month, THE PARADE is highlighted in a screening at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. Srdjan Dragojevic’s darkly humorous film turns a lens on a very real issue being debated right now in Serbia and the rest of the world. Joël Coppens, a former intern and native Belgian, came across a clip of THE PARADE being discussed on the major French talk show On est pas couché. Joël translated some of the conversation, and weighed in with some of his own thoughts:
Continue reading FEATURE: THE PARADE @ Human Rights Watch FF Toronto  Leave a comment  About GFI, Balkans, Distribution, Distributors, Education, Europe, Features, Festivals, Filmmakers, Films, Global Lens, News, Religion & Culture, Toronto, War & Conflict  gay marriage, gay pride, gay pride parade, homosexulaity, human rights, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, On est pas couché, The Parade If a film is a mirror of the culture that bares it, there is a wealth of information in the images it shows us. A scene from GREY MATTER. Former intern Andrea Moran on bringing film in the classroom and why a plan for international education is so important… A few months ago, U.S. Department of Education released its first ever plan for international education. The 16-page report, titled “Succeeding Globally Through International Education and Engagement” is a 4-year strategy for increasing American students’ knowledge and engagement with world affairs. Continue reading OPEN MIC: Teaching Global Citizenship Through Film 
Global Lens 2013: Change the Way You See the World Our tenth anniversary opens with China’s Sixth Generation, Sebastián Silva, the biggest film you’ve ever seen from Brazil (literally), and a host of Global Lens alumnus.… It’s our tenth year and we’re kicking off Global Lens 2013, January 10th-26th, with ten films at the Museum of Modern Art! It’s going to be some celebration… BEIJING FLICKERS will open the series on January 10th with a week-run at MoMA and director Zhang Yuan and actor Li Xinjun in attendance, to launch the festivities (a must see: Zhang is the acclaimed director of Beijing Bastards, and part of the gritty Sixth Generation ethos—who in the ‘90s, pushed Chinese filmmaking out of an overly-romanticized lens into the alter-reality of its edgy, urban psyche). Also in New York for the GL13 opening: Suman Ghosh for the North American premiere of SHYAMAL UNCLE TURNS OFF THE LIGHTS, on January 11th. This film is something to indeed be experienced with the director, as he runs his fingers through the tangled hair of Kolkata’s bureaucracy; an inspired and insightful work that carries a subtle charm, similar to another Global Lens standout. Continue reading NEWS: Global Lens 2013 @ MoMA! Leave a comment About GFI, Academy Awards, Africa, Asia, Balkans, Cannes, Caribbean, Central America, Central Asia, Central Europe, Children & Youth, Curators, Distribution, Distributors, Eastern Europe, Education, Europe, Events, Features, Festival, Festivals, Filmmakers, Films, Global Lens, Industry, Latin America, Mediterranean, Middle East, New York, News, North Africa, North America, Oceania, Other Regions, Partners, Partners, Politics, Programmers, Religion & Culture, Rotterdam, South America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Theatrical & Non-theatrical, War & Conflict, Women's Studies 111 Girls, Arabic, Aroon Shivdasani, aspect ratio, Bahman Ghobadi, balkans, Beijing Bastards, Beijing Flickers, Bengali, Bijan Zamanpira, Bonnie and Clyde, brazil, cannes, china, China Institute, Darbar 111 Dokhtar, Darezhan Omirbayev, East Asia, Eduardo Nunes, Egypt, El Fantastico Mundo de Juan Orol, Farsi, global lens, Global Lens 2013, Guadalajara International Film Festival, india, Indo American Arts Council, Iran, Iranian Independents, Iraq, Johnny Depp, jytte jensen, Kazakh, Kazakhstan, Kolkata, Kurdish, Kurdistan, La Vida Me Mata, latin america, Li Xinjun, Life Kills Me, Mandarin, Mani Haghighi, Martin Landau, mexico, Middle East, Modest Reception, Mohammad Atebbai, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, Nahid Ghobadi, new york, North Africa, North America, Oday Rasheed, Parada, Paziraie Sadeh, Persian, Portuguese, Renato Falcao, Russian, sandra kogut, santhosh daniel, Sebastian del Amo, Sebastian Silva, serbia, Serbo-Croatian, Shyamal Uncle Turns Off the Lights, Six Generation, South Asia, Southwest, Spanish, Srdjan Dragojević, Student, Suman Ghosh, susan weeks coulter, The Fantastico World of Juan Orol, Tim Burton, Un Certain Regard, Variety, You-Zhong, Zhang Yuan A retrospective look at Global Lens via the images and ideas that took our signature series from infancy to adulthood… As writer Robert Mckee said, “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.” We agree. Stories are the basis of humanity. They teach, they entertain, and they shape how we see the world. As humans, we are wired to connect and bond with others. GFI was created with this purpose: to create global understanding, empathy and connectivity through the powerful medium of film, and to promote and support the vibrant growth of global filmmaking. To date, we have distributed 96 independent films from over 38 countries to North American audiences, and hosted screenings in every U.S. state except North Dakota. (Anyone in North Dakota want to help us with our 2013 New Years Resolution? Contact us!) Through these films, we hope to inspire people to keep learning about other perspectives and ways of life. In celebration of Global Lens’ 10th year anniversary in January, we take a look at some of our films and the themes they contain from the past decade… Continue reading INDUSTRY: A Decade of Film Leave a comment About GFI, Children & Youth, Curators, Distribution, Distributors, Education, Features, Filmmakers, Films, Global Lens, Industry, News, Politics, Profiles and Interviews, Programmers, Religion & Culture, Topics, War & Conflict, Women's Studies Algeria, argentina, Becloud. Mexico, Beijing Flicker, belvedere, Border Cafe, Bosnia & Herzegovina, brazil, Bunny Chow, Cairo 678, china, Columbia, craft, Egypt, Fat Bald Short Man, filmmaking, global lens, grey matter, india, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, leo's room, Let the Wind Blow, Life Kills Me, Margarette's Feast, Masquerades, morocco, mourning, mutum, my tehran for sale, Opera Jawa, rachida, rwanda, serbia, social change, song from the southern seas, South Africa, the art of filmmaking, The Fish Fall in Love, the kite, The Parade, The Photograph, the prize, The White Meadows, toll booth, Turkey, Uruguay, What a Wonderful World UT San Antonio Professor Steven G. Kellman (and former HuffPo contributor) on fighting off the ‘the toxins of cultural provincialism’ with QARANTINA… 
A scene from QARANTINA (dir. Oday Rasheed, Iraq) Though it is the seventh largest city in the United States, San Antonio is, like all but a few other areas in the country, virtually quarantined against foreign cinema. When an imported film does get screened in a local commercial theater, it is almost always from Britain, since, according to the industry’s conventional wisdom, Americans are monolingual, and they do not go to the movies to read; box-office receipts for inferior remakes of The Vanishing, The Debt, and The Seven Samurai exceed those for the subtitled originals. Film is the most portable of the arts, but national aversion to foreign film reflects widespread indifference to anything beyond our borders but violence. As an antidote to the toxins of cultural provincialism, the San Antonio Museum of Art has scheduled monthly public screenings of works – twice each – provided by the Global Film Initiative. I was invited by SAMA to introduce the films and lead post-screening discussions. October’s offering, Qarantina, written and directed by Oday Rasheed, is an outstanding demonstration of foreign cinema’s power to bring fresh perspectives to worlds that many hardly knew existed. Set in contemporary Baghdad, Qarantina is a film by Iraqis, about Continue reading FEATURE: From Baghdad to San Antonio, QARANTINA Comes to South Texas Leave a comment Features, Films, Global Lens, News, Religion & Culture, San Antonio, Theatrical & Non-theatrical, War & Conflict, Women's Studies in the valley of elah, national book critics circle, Oday Rasheed, Qarantina, redemption, sama, san antonio, san antonio museum of art, steven g. kellman, stop-loss, the debt, the hurt locker, the life of henry roth, the men who stare at goats, the self-begetting novel san antonio current, the seven samurai, the translingual imagination, the vanishing, tigris, university of texas at san antonio From the Global Lens Collection and MoMA’s Department of Film comes Global Lens filmmaker Maria Joao Ganga’s powerful exploration of innocence and Angola… We’re very pleased to announce that one of our most favorite curators, and educators, Anne Morra, at the Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Film, has put together a spectacular new film exhibit titled Unaccompanied Minors: From Feeding the Bay to the Hollow City, to run July 22nd-August 14th, in tandem with the Museum’s Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000 gallery exhibit. Thirty-one short- and feature-length films are included the exhibit, at the exhibit’s core is Global Lens Collection film HOLLOW CITY : Continue reading NEWS: HOLLOW CITY Leads “Unaccompanied Minors” Exhibit at MoMA Leave a comment About GFI, Africa, Children & Youth, Curators, Distribution, Education, Features, Filmmakers, Films, Funders, Global Lens, Granting, Industry, New York, News, North America, Partners, Politics, Sub-Saharan Africa, Theatrical & Non-theatrical, War & Conflict Angola, Anne Morra, Century of the Child, Exhibits, jytte jensen, manhattan, MoMA, Oliver Twist, Portuguese, PS1, subtitles, Unaccompanied Minors Jim Canacci, Lecturer at Kent State University at Trumbull, on using Global Lens films to inform, expand and appreciate the world around us “Every story reveals a world.” -Global Lens Trailer 
Jim Canacci, Lecturer at Kent State University at Trumbull I truly believe that Global Lens changes “the way you see the world.” I know this from personal experience and through sharing these films with the students and campus community at Kent State University at Trumbull. My first year with Global Lens was in cooperation with my good friend, Dr. Ken Bindas, who is now the Chair of the History Department at Kent State University. He asked if I would partner with him to show the films on my campus in Warren, OH, as well as at the Lemon Grove in downtown Youngstown. He provided me with the materials, and asked if I could do “the rest.” With the help of many generous people on my campus, we had a plan to show three of the films on campus during International Education Week. Jacob Roope, who organizes most of the events, helped choose which films fit best with the guest speakers and our potential audience members. Jacob Harver, who is co-owner of the Lemon Grove, was kind enough to show all the Continue reading OPEN MIC: The Educated Eye Because in an empathic civilization, ‘monkey see, monkey do’ isn’t such a bad thing 
WATCH: The Empathic Civilization (courtesy of RSA Animate and Jonathan Rifkin) Not long ago, Emma Rae Lierley, Administrative Coordinator at GFI, sent me a link to a video on “The Empathic Civilization” (right). Her rationale in sending it was that she felt it encapsulated the basic premise upon which Global Lens was founded: that in our most sympathetic state of human existence, we are all connected. Of course, nowadays, we hear such things all the time. Technological evolution has certainly connected us with the world outside our physical boundaries. Intellectual curiosity has always found a way to merge minds above borders. And then, without doubt, there is religion. All are valid points of connection, connectivity. But the video makes a much more basic point. It says that we, as humans, are predisposed to having shared feelings and emotions, or an “empathic” relationship with one another that intuitively draws us together, as a people (see the video’s example of ‘monkey see, monkey do’). Continue reading SUPPORT: Change the Way You See the World One comment About GFI, Africa, Asia, Balkans, Central Asia, Children & Youth, Distribution, Education, Europe, Filmmakers, Films, Global Lens, Industry, Latin America, Middle East, News, Politics, Religion & Culture, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, War & Conflict A Case of the Mondays, Ahmed Imamovic, Bosnia & Herzegovina, evolution, Gary Cole, global lens, grey matter, Iran, Jonathan Rifkin, kivu ruhorahoza, morteza farshbaf, mourning, mutum, Office Space, Ron Livingston, RSA Animate, rwanda, sandra kogut, santhosh daniel, Serkan Erkan, Turkey How a chance encounter turned into an uncommon opportunity to support Sierra Leone’s first-ever international film festival
A few months ago, outside a very crowded bar in San Francisco, Kieran Ridge, advisory board member of the Palo Alto Film Festival—one of our newest partners—had the insight to introduce us to someone with a very similar commitment to Africa: Banker White, of WeOwnTV. You may recognize the name, as a few years ago, Banker directed a documentary about a music innovation in Freetown called the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars. Continue reading GFI @ the Sierra Leone International Film Festival Leave a comment About GFI, Africa, Curators, Distribution, Distributors, Education, Events, Festivals, Filmmakers, Films, Funders, Global Lens, Granting, Industry, News, North Africa, Other Regions, Partners, Producers, Profiles and Interviews, Sponsors, Sub-Saharan Africa, Theatrical & Non-theatrical, Topics, War & Conflict |
     
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