Trailer: Oka!

Trailer: Oka!

Posted on October 9, 2011 at 9:08 am

Louis Sarno was from New Jersey, but he fell in love with the music of the pygmy people of Central Africa.  He went there in the mid-1980’s to record their music and returned because he fell in love with their culture — and with a pygmy woman he later married. He wrote a book about his adventures, Song from the Forest: My Life Among the Ba-Benjelle Pygmies and a book with CD about what he saw, Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the Babenzele Pygmies and Sounds of Their Forest Home.  His story is now a movie and it looks wonderful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCIYHEWH09M
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Exclusive Clip — ‘@urFRENZ,’ a Movie About Online Dangers

Posted on October 2, 2011 at 11:18 pm

We teach our children not to talk to strangers and then we send them out into the internet where it is impossible to tell strangers from friends.  Inspired by real events, “@urFRENZ” was written to help families discuss the complicated challenges of bullying and cyberbullying. Here is an exclusive clip:

It’s available now on iTunes and VOD.

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George Lucas’ New Film About the Tuskegee Airmen: Red Tails

George Lucas’ New Film About the Tuskegee Airmen: Red Tails

Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:40 pm

Here’s a glimpse of next year’s upcoming film co-written by George Lucas about the Tuskegee Airmen, “Red Tails.”  It stars Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, Byran Cranston, and Brandon T. Jackson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDI8lKlyhPY

It looks great.  Everyone should learn about these great heroes, the first African-American military airmen.  There is a very good HBO film with Laurence Fishburne, Andre Braugher, and Cuba Gooding, Jr., and a documentary, Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series).

 

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