NYT Critics Pick Review: Being BeBe
“…a breath of fresh air.”
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Changeworx rents equipment, such as tape decks or our projector, by the day (or by individual arrangement for longer periods). Our equipment includes: Sony HVR-M15U, HDV & DV deck — $100/day — plays/records most formats of DV or HDV tape (NTSC or PAL) Samsung SV-5000W, VHS deck (Owner’s Manual) — $100/day — plays/records/outputs practically any format VHS (NTSC, PAL, […]
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Changeworx e-News Winter 2016
Pakistan Comes to London, and Returns to New York; Follow the Leader Wins Silver Telly; Also Coming Soon: Being Bebe & PS160
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Portrait of Radical Islam in Pakistan Veers from Balance to Condemnation
“What I like about Among the Believers, a portrait of radical Islam in Pakistan, is how the first two-thirds of the movie strives to remain as balanced as possible.”
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Tribeca Film Festival: Among the Believers review
“…this multi-tentacled story using a daunting variety of footage, news footage and archival film mixed with interviews…shows the end-result of single-minded black-and-white thinking, especially when it comes to children. “
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Tribeca Film Festival: 12 Must-See Premieres
“Though it’s a documentary, Among the Believers might also qualify as Tribeca’s scariest film this year.”
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23 Movies to See at the Tribeca Film Festival
“With uncommon access, this documentary…reveals how those preaching zealotry, intolerance, and repression can insinuate themselves into desperately poor, hungry communities.”
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The 20 Best Movies at the Tribeca Film Festival
“The battles make the headlines, but the war for the future of Pakistan is being fought far beyond the reach of the public eye.”
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Q&A with Jonathan Goodman Levitt
An hour-long, unedited interview of Jonathan Goodman Levitt about Follow the Leader by C-Span’s founder Brian Lamb.
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A Political Documentary “Reality Check” with “Follow the Leader”
POV spoke with Levitt “to [grasp] why he feels so strongly about engaging audiences in a political dialogue.” He shared he’s “come to understand why people on the Right feel disenfranchised by public media, and feel it’s left wing. My own politics aside I made enemies…because the film doesn’t take a position against its characters.”
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Unconventional: Behind the Scenes, Nick Troiano
“Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions…” The Washington Post talks with Nick Troiano, participant in the new film Follow the Leader that’s premiering in Charlotte during the DNC Convention.
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Unconventional: Behind the Scenes, Jonathan Goodman Levitt
“Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions…” The Washington Post talks with Jonathan Goodman Levitt, the filmmaker behind the new film Follow the Leader that’s premiering in Charlotte during the DNC Convention.
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Fiscal Conservatism Fuels Debt-Concerned Youth
“Troiano was recently featured in a film documentary called Follow the Leader, which tells the story of three conservative teenagers going through high school in America after 9/11, and is premiering at the RNC.”
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Documentary Shows Teenage Politicians Growing Up Post 9/11
“I started to question what I was doing, what my motives were. They were not public service, but to advance my own career and my own goals. I came to the conclusion that I can’t do this for the rest of my life,” said D.J. Beauregard (one of three main participants in Follow the Leader)
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Three Teens’ Quests for Political Power
“…all of a sudden you’re pressured — the power — you become sort of this strange entity that is being pulled by so many people, and you sort of lose who you wanted to be in the first place…” Juliet Huddy, Fox News
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Project of the Day: Politics Isn’t Just Child’s Play
“…I started making a film about what I didn’t understand. But rather than defining a generation’s political opinion, I focused on three ambitious teens who had adopted the ‘war on terror’ mentality wholeheartedly…”
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How I Learned to Stop Directing and Think Like a Commissioning Editor
Public service broadcasters are less well funded, more nationally focused, and increasingly averse to risk.
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Playing it for Real: Are we exploiting vulnerable people when we watch their lives unravel on TV?
“Jonathan Goodman Levitt argues that the ‘fly-on-the-wall’ approach is far more effective in transmitting a message than ‘talking heads’ – in the same way that mental health education is known to work best when delivered by someone with first-hand experience.”
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Last Night’s TV: Till the Dark Depths Do Us Part
“Life is life, life is filmed and life is what goes into the film,” said Allan, the subject of Sunny Intervals and Showers. If you believe it’s that simple then you’re crazy, but…”
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Storyville: Sunny Intervals and Showers
“Jonathan Goodman Levitt’s gentle film follows a year in the life of Dr. Allan Levi, a university professor who, when filming started, had just been suspended from work because of his manic depression…Leavened by humour, it is still a sobering demonstration of the everyday exasperations of living with mental illness.”
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Is the Label Worse Than the Illness?
“The intimate documentary, to be broadcast on BBC tonight, starts by showing an engaging, high-spirited man and his loyal wife struggling with his suddenly jobless state and diagnosis. Without giving away too much, the film illustrates how fragile even the most apparently sturdy relationships can be when someone is diagnosed with a mental illness. With the rate of diagnosis increasing, this raises important issues.”
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Digital Pick of the Day: Sunny Intervals and Showers
“Living with manic depression is one of the hardest thing to do, both for the person suffering from the illness and for their families. This important documentary is…almost too harrowing to watch and it is to the programme’s credit that it doesn’t shy away from tackling just how difficult…”