Narrative Documentary

Recently at the Roxbury Film Festival I saw a new documentary that was absolutely amazing: Favela Rising by Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary. The film won the Audience Favorite Award and is interesting for several reasons. First, the film tells the amazing story of how two social revolutionaries started a movement in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro with the goal of drawing youths away from a life of crime and towards more positive alternatives, second, the film mixes narrative and documentary techniques in very interesting ways, and third, the film holds the promise to inspire other communities facing similar problems to organize and work on solving their problems from within. I recently interviewed co-director Jeff Zimbalist about the film for NewEnglandFilm.com.

The del.icio.us web

Do you use more than one machine access the web? Do you wish you could access your bookmarks no matter what computer you’re on? Do you wish it was easier to share links with others? Well, check out del.icio.us, an online bookmarks manager. del.icio.us makes it easy to add bookmarks to your own online personal collection. You can categorize bookmarks with tags and share your collection with others. It’s really cool to see other people’s bookmarks, and how many other people have linked to pages you have bookmarked. You can also view the bookmarks that other people have collected, and subscribe to the bookmarks of people whose lists you are interested in.

One from the vaults

In a recent search for other images I came across this. Tom Heitman, director of preservation and restoration at Cineric, Inc., showed me this can on a visit to the facility on May 20, 2002.
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