Davi Pretto: Only the Fictions Can Heal Us
April 16, 2014
Talks to the director about his film Castanha and the blurred lines between fiction and reality.
Ela Bittencourt
Radka Franczak: Painting the Past in a New Russia
November 22, 2013
Ela Bittencourt talks to the director of Losing Sonia, a profile of an Orthodox nun and icon painter who reflects the changes in modern Russia.
The Driver’s Seat
November 6, 2013
On Mark Kendall’s documentary La Camioneta, doing business with Mexico’s drug cartels, and what old school buses have to do with self-determination.
Annie Eastman: Precarious Ground
July 16, 2012
Documentarian Annie Eastman tells the stories of families in Salvador’s palafitas—water slums built on piles of garbage—and confronts her outsider status.
Mai Iskander: After the Revolution
June 29, 2012
Mai Iskander, director of Words of Witness, talks with Ela Bittencourt about the reporting/activism dilemma, Egypt’s disappeared, and the rule of law under Morsi.
Biotechnology and Its Human Tragedies in India
April 10, 2012
Director Micha X. Peled's Bitter Seeds is a compelling portrait of families and biotechnology in modern India.
Wislawa Szymborska: A Portrait in Quotes
February 21, 2012
In lieu of a character sketch, I have culled 10 quotations from Poland’s most prestigious newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, revealing glimpses of what, over the years, Polish writers and intellectuals have said about their illustrious colleague Wislawa Szymborska.