The Queen of Versailles (Greenfield, 2012)
Not just one of the best documentaries at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Lauren Greenfield’s The Queen of Versailles deserves to be in the conversation as one of the best films of 2012.
Category: Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2010
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1More Podcast — Episode 3
Kenneth R. Morefield and Katherine Richards podcast from the 2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
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My Perestroika (Hessman, 2010)
These people, incidentally just as my own parents, were Lenin’s Pioneers growing up behind the Iron Curtain, who witnessed the breakdown of the USSR and were shocked by the instability of their country, their lives, and the concept of truth itself.
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Stonewall Uprising (Davis & Heilbroner, 2010)
If there was one moving, indelible image that I took away from the film, it wasn't anything said by the participants proudly remembering when they finally stood up to the police but from the police officer who in the twilight of life looks back with regret on making them do it: "You knew you could ruin [the people you arrested] for life [...] you felt bad..."
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Family Affair (Colvard, 2010)
One in four women over the age of eighteen has experienced some form of sexual abuse.
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Do It Again (Patton-Spruill, 2010)
Boston Globe music journalist Geoff Edgers states in his brief and lovable documentary Do It Again, “Pieces of the Kinks are still floating around out there, but we need the real thing.”
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Google Baby (Frank, 2009)
I’ll cop to my own biases here rather than try to slough them off on them film. I’ve long been puzzled (and maybe frustrated) by evangelical or fundamentalist Christians (or members of communities who identify themselves as such) who will oppose legalized abortion on demand or stem cell research with the zealous, absolute certainty of the righteous and yet turn around and willingly participate (as consumers or support) in forms of surrogate pregnancy that may include the transportation or destruction of fertilized eggs.
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Chico Colvard Interview
Because society often sends the message--overt or implied--that whether or not you are a "good person" is dependent on whether you can or will forgive, victims of serious or continued abuse may feel isolated, even when their experiences are common.