By Alan Silverman Hollywood 11 June 2007 A new animated family film dips into the high thrills world of 'big wave' surfing; but these athletes are not the usual tanned, muscular icons of the beach. They are penguins. Surfing penguins. Alan Silverman...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 23 May 2007 The first international human rights film festival to take place in Bangui, Central African Republic, has ended. During the week-long festival, about 15,000 people saw 10 films. Festival organizers say they were under...
By Carolyn Weaver New York City 21 May 2007 We Are Together (Thina Simunye) is an award-winning documentary about the children of Agape Orphanage, in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. It is the first film by a 25-year-old director from Bri...
By Anita Elash Paris 21 May 2007 A film about American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002, has opened at the Cannes Film Festival. Pearl The film, A Mighty Heart , is based on a book writt...
By Tendai Maphosa London 30 April 2007 The third-annual Palestinian Film Festival is underway in London. For VOA Tendai Maphosa speaks to one of the participating directors who says even under extreme conditions, people get on with life. The two-week...
By Amra Alirejsovic Los Angeles, California 26 April 2007 Harun Mehmedinovic is a young Bosnian-American filmmaker who is studying at the American Film Institute (A.F.I.) in California, one of the most prestigious film schools in the world. His late...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 03 March 2007 Africa's largest film festival closes tonight in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The Pan African Film and Television festival, known as FESPACO, showed films from more than 40 countries, including a growing selection of...
By Kane Farabaugh New York City 01 March 2007 watch Jesus Tomb report Academy Award-winning director James Cameron is at the center of a controversy that strikes at the heart of some of Christianity's fundamental beliefs. Cameron has made a document...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 23 February 2007 Filmmakers, fans and critics are preparing to attend one of Africa's largest film festivals known as FESPACO. As theaters are shutting down across Africa, the festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso opening this S...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 13 February 2007 A new film called Rwanda Rising looks at the African nation 12 years after the Rwandan genocide. Mike O'Sullivan reports, the documentary produced by Andrew Young, former U.S. ambassador to the United...