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Videos
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Roko Belic for Creative Visions - Activist Spotlight
Causecast featured organization Creative Visions Foundation seeks to inform, inspire, and empower artist-activists throughout the world. Roko Belic's interest in real people are told through documentary filmmaking. Creative Visions supports creative activists like Roko in sharing these stories with the world.
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Educator, Poet And Community Organizer, Mark Gonzales Endorses Senator Ridley-Thomas
Young, award winning filmmaker, Jethro Rothe-Kushel, and educator, poet and community organizer, Mark Gonzales, collaborated on the above Mark Ridley-Thomas for Supervisor endorsement video. In the video, Gonzales tells the story of how Senator Ridley-Tho
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As LA-based filmmaker Maital Guttman returns to her home state -- political battleground state North Carolina -- in the last weeks of a highly competitive election, she reveals faces of NC supporters of Obama, from a Veteran to a Republican, from Joe Sixpack to Obama the Presidential Candidate.
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"Bearing Dreams" sets out to uncover the world of superstition and dream interpretation in the Korean culture. The Tae-Mong is a type of prophetic dreams Koreans have that determines the sex, personality, and destiny of their unborn child. The film explores the origin of Tae-Mong by interviewing the filmmaker's "Old Korea" relatives, who migrated from Korea in the early 80's and still hold on to the practices they've grown up with. As they recall dreams of their siblings and offsprings, the filmmaker's curiosity is triggered and she decides to figure out her own destiny as dictated by her mother's Tae-Mong for her. Her Tae-Mong seems promising but do dreams really come true? According to these dreamers, they do...even if it means buying the Tae-Mong from someone else.
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Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion Amazon Chernobyl case, CRUDE is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy film making as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.
Articles
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Moore opened the door for filmmaker pals
Former collaborators now see documentaries as commercially viable
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Human Rights Film Festival Showcases Young Filmmakers
Wouldn't we all like to view the world through the eyes of a child? Well, this is your chance to see the world, and human rights, through those eyes.
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Peace Film To Be Screened In Afghanistan
Just over a year ago, actor Jude Law accompanied filmmaker Jeremy Gilley to Afghanistan as part of Gilley’s documentary “The Day After Peace”, a follow up to... -
Environmental Impacts Of The Border Wall
The mere existence of the U.S. - Mexico border wall has been cause for vicious debate. Most often, the debate centers on immigration reform, human rights iss... -
Genetic Testing: Should You Be Tested?
The decision to be tested for the genetic mutations that dramatically raise a woman’s risk of the disease is a fraught one.
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Going raw sparks life change -- and a movie
Inspired by a documentary about eating only McDonald's for 30 days, Jenna Norwood decided to go for the opposite and only eat raw, organic food for a month.
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The baby boomers are ready and the millennials can taste it. We are seduced by change; it's allure insurmountable and implications incredible.
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Why Schoolwork Doesn't Have to Suck: Learning 2.0
If your child's schooling - their classroom, their homework, their textbooks, - looks like it did when you were in school, you may have a problem.
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Armenian artists to join Global Soul 2009
Jewish World Watch (JWW) will host Global Soul, an evening of music, culture, and genocide awareness at the Skirball Cultural Center.
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FUEL events in L.A. this weekend!
Filmmaker Joshua Tickell will appear at special screenings of the award-winning documentary FUEL in Santa Monica this weekend.
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Backers Take Obama To Task On Troop Surge
Obama is expected to announce a 19-month withdrawal Iraq plan today that would leave behind as many as 50,000 of the 142,000 troops currently there.
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Live Streaming of 'The Rescue' at Causecast HQ
Invisible Children will be live streaming 'The Rescue' and a Q&A with filmmakers on Tuesday, April 7th at the Causecast headquarters in Santa Monica.
Events
- Heaven Gala 2009 Location: Los Angeles, CA
- M.O.D.-Moment of Decision Location: The Norris Cinema Theater 3535 S. Figueroa St Los Angeles, CA 90089
- CRUDE Location: Harmony Gold Theater, 7655 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
- CRUDE, The Real Price of Oil Location: Nationwide (See movie listings.)
- iWitness Award Honoring Filmmaker Lisa Jackson Location: American Jewish University 15600 Mulholland Dr. Bel-Air, CA 90077
People
- Jwarren
- ErikJames Los Angeles, CA
- dayfornight Los Angeles, CA
- ToddF Culver City , CA
- icequeen057 West Hollywood, CA
- lostboy6987 Orange, CA
- kgsimerly Los Angeles, CA
- Jonathan H Los Angeles, CA
- Nic Clark East Lansing , MI
- Jinspiration LA CRESCENTA, CA
- doubleohthreeproductions
- melodymakes San Francisco, CA
Blog posts
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Veteran Comedian/Filmmaker Peter Chen on Nonviolence
Filmmaker Peter Chen returns with his short film 'Soft Might' which explores winning by nonviolence and love prevailing when we set aside our prejudices. Using his comedic charm and wits, Chen ex...
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Second Annual JWW iWitness Awards
Come check out the Second Annual JWW iWitness Awards! Join JWW and its partners in the Long Beach Cambodian community in honoring Socheata Poeuv, award-winning filmmaker of New Year Baby and fou...
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New collaborative event in Los Angeles: Digital Cabaret!
A friend of mine, Melanie, and I are excited about a new experimental event we’re co-producing in Los Angeles. Our “Digital Cabaret” will be a mixed-media event that combines a participant-generate...
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New collaborative event in Los Angeles: Digital Cabaret!
A friend of mine, Melanie, and I are excited about a new experimental event we’re co-producing in Los Angeles. Our “Digital Cabaret” will be a mixed-media event that combines a participant-generate...
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Last Tuesday was bittersweet for me as a gay man living in California. On the one hand, we'd elected our nation's first black President, who, in his victory speech mentioned gay people by name in ...
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Special Causecast movie screening this Wednesday
Come join Causecast tonight in Santa Monica for an exclusive screening of the documentary "All the Way Home" by filmmaker and journalist Edward Nachtrieb. Edward's still photography has been fe...
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Special Causecast movie screening this Wednesday
Come join Causecast tonight in Santa Monica for an exclusive screening of the documentary "All the Way Home" by filmmaker and journalist Edward Nachtrieb. Edward's still photography has been fea...
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Mighty Real: Gus Van Sant on MILK
Written by Peter Bowen [The following article originally appeared in Filmmaker Magazine to commemorate Gus Van Sant being honored at this year’s IFP Gotham Awards.] In the early ’70s as a stude...
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Sir Ben Kingsley Announces Film with Latino husband and wife team.
Latino Filmmaker husband and wife team Luis and Bobbi Moro are producing a film with Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley and his SBK Pictures team of Simone Sheffield and Valerie Hoffman. Luis Moro also...
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A Life Of Hope In Mountains Of Trash.
Hi! My name is Gerry a New York filmmaker. I recently shot a narrative film called THE MOUNTAIN THIEF in Payatas, a dumpsite community and possibly the poorest place in the world. Please take 2 m...
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“Women In Action” Series Celebrating Women’s History Month, and International Women’s Day.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 19 2009; presented by Women Without Borders US Los Angeles, Ca, February 19, 2009-This spring, Los Angeles acclaimed artist and illustrator Bobbi Miller-Moro ...
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Celebrity Hosted Screenings of FUEL this weekend ONLY
FUEL ANNOUNCES CELEBRITY-HOSTED SCREENINGS THIS WEEKEND - BUY YOUR TICKETS ONLINE NOW! The 7 PM screenings of FUEL at the AMC Lowes Broadway in Santa Monica will be hosted by celebrities on Frid...
