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INDIA’S DAUGHTER

In December 2012, the world was rocked as mass protests erupted in India following the gang rape of 23-year old medical school student Jyoti Singh on a bus in Delhi. Not only was she gang raped by six men (including one minor), but she was eviscerated, her entrails ripped from

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ROOM

When Emma Donoghue’s emotional telling of the story of a boy named Jack and his Ma hit the bestseller list in 2010, Donoghue already had a screenplay in the works. Wanting to challenge herself, and feeling the emotion that leaps off the page and into one’s very soul in reading

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OUR BRAND IS CRISIS

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” That statement is never truer than when it comes to politics, be it in the United States or elsewhere. As we have seen time and again with both narrative films and documentaries, election campaigning is a deadly, take-no-prisoners sport. The

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TRUTH

Who doesn’t know of Dan Rather’s 2004 fall from grace as one of the most respected investigative reports and journalists in television history. From revered war correspondent to the voice of CBS news post-Walter Cronkite to hard-hitting anchor of “60 Minutes”, Rather was a face and a voice we could

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