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05/03/2008
The New York Times: Arab and Israeli Peace, at Least for Children
BRIDGE OVER THE WADI begins with the small and familiar to examine the big and complex.

05/01/2008
Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco, CA): Hulatudes
NA KAMALEI: The Men of Hula shows the delicate cultural balance one contemporary hula company holds, and how it changed the lives of a company of men.

04/18/2008
National Arab American Times: PBS Airs New Documentary on Arab-Israeli Cooperation
PBS World Channel will air the new documentary BRIDGE OVER THE WADI as part of the new series Global Voices, which features a world-class array of internationally themed documentaries...

04/18/2008
KPHX (Phoenix, AZ): A DREAM IN DOUBT
An audio interview with Rana Singh Sodhi, a first generation immigrant from India, and Tami Yeager, filmmaker of A DREAM IN DOUBT, airing on Independent Lens.

04/16/2008
The Washington Post: Discussion with KING CORN Filmmakers
Filmmakers Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney discuss KING CORN on The Washington Post live online forum.

04/16/2008
The Oxford Press (OH): Post-9/11 Hate Crime Subject of Film
[A DREAM IN DOUBT] follows a Sikh family from Arizona after one of their family members, Balbir Singh Sodhi, was the victim of America's first post-9/11 hate crime.

04/15/2008
Daily Kos (Online): KING CORN Movie on PBS for Tax Day
Independent Lens will be showing the documentary film, KING CORN (lots of really good stuff to explore at that link) … This is an important film (and pretty fun) since the [Food &] Farm Bill is currently in Congress being reconciled (not too late to call).

04/15/2008
St. Petersburg Times (FL): KING CORN is a Sobering Look at What We Eat
… KING CORN is a breezy, entertaining buddy flick––two city boys fumbling their way through tasks farmers have mastered for generations in America's farm belt, its underlying message laid out simply and persuasively.

04/15/2008
Chicago Tribune: Shaggy Documentary Investigates the Rule of KING CORN
KING CORN uses a shambling, shaggy style to answer a serious question: Why is our food system so out of whack?

04/15/2008
WNYC: The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio interview with Director Aaron Woolf and Filmmaker Curt Ellis of KING CORN airing on Independent Lens.

04/15/2008
NPR: The Bryant Park Project
Audio interview with Filmmakers Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney of KING CORN, airing on Independent Lens.

04/15/2008
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival: Online Digital Games Exhibition
World Without Oil ... was entirely a discursive, transmediated experience, as open as human expression itself.

04/15/2008
CNN: Inside Africa
Featured segment and interview with Siatta Scott-Johnson, co-director of IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA.

04/14/2008
Pop Matters: KING CORN: Independent Lens
Following the trails blazed by Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, Ellis and Cheney mean to pursue this problem, setting themselves as guides through the thicket of American agricultural and business practices, revealing that, no surprise, the system is premised on and driven by money.

04/14/2008
The Hartford Courant (CT): Corn's Dominance of American Agriculture Explored in KING CORN
In the engaging documentary KING CORN, debuting on PBS's Independent Lens, you get the idea that Yale grads Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis sort of fell into their idea of following the season of a single acre of America's biggest cash crop.

04/12/2008
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Tribute Takes a Walk on the Wilder Side
Independent Lens: KING CORN ... follows two young college buddies as they move to Iowa, plant an acre of corn and attempt to follow it through the labyrinth of the food business. What they find is not funny, but the documentary often is.

04/12/2008
The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ): KING CORN not Corny--Mom's TV Log
Most of us are full of corn, and a quirky documentary, KING CORN, explains why.

04/12/2008
KPFA (Berkeley, CA): Behind the News
Audio interview with Director Aaron Woolf and Filmmaker Ian Cheney of KING CORN airing on Independent Lens.

04/11/2008
Sikh News Network: PBS To Air Film On A Sikh’s Perseverance Through Tragedy
Rana Singh Sodhi tells his story of overcoming grief by embracing his country in a new film, A DREAM IN DOUBT.

04/10/2008
Time Out New York (Online): Goodies Newsletter
Independent Lens Filmocracy contest for KING CORN selected as "Best of the Week."

04/09/2008
The Oklahoman: Film KING CORN Goes to Roots of Food System Problems
A simple film with a powerful message about our country's abundance of corn and the impact that grain has on our health, our nation's economy and the dwindling number of family farms...

04/08/2008
The Hartford Courant (CT): TV Eye
... [A] remarkable documentary is on tonight's Independent Lens. Gwendolen Cates' WATER FLOWING TOGETHER looks back at the remarkable career of New York City Ballet principal Jack Soto, a dancer of Navajo and Puerto Rican roots.

04/08/2008
The New York Times: Moving on and Looking Back: A Ballet Star’s Afterlife
Mr. Soto, who retired in 2005, has a more interesting story than most, and it is at least partly told in WATER FLOWING TOGETHER, a documentary by Gwendolen Cates and narrated by Terrence Howard, on PBS’s Independent Lens series this week.

04/08/2008
New York Magazine (Online): Dancer Jock Soto Looks Back on a Life in Tights (and Fishnets)
A Q&A with Jock Soto, retired New York City Ballet dancer featured in the documentary WATER FLOWING TOGETHER, airing on Independent Lens.

04/08/2008
The Oklahoman: What's on TV?
WATER FLOWING TOGETHER is a fascinating, profile of the half-Navajo, half-Puerto Rican dancer who joined the New York City Ballet as a teen and retired at 40 after a long career.

04/08/2008
Gannett News Service: Tonight's Must See
Here is a warm retirement portrait of a quiet man who expresses himself brilliantly through movement.

04/08/2008
The Oregonian: In the Mix
[KING CORN] reveals loads about where our food comes from, how it's grown and, ultimately, how cheap corn has created a junk-food nation.

04/07/2008
Indian Country Today (Canastota, NY): WATER FLOWING TOGETHER Film Tells Jock Soto's Inspiring Story
[Cates] captured his determination, ambivalence and occasional despair as he prepared to let go of his identity as star of one of the world's most prominent ballet companies.

04/07/2008
The Advocate: Life After Dance
More than a simple biopic, the film offers an enlightening portrait of an artist through the eyes of his parents, colleagues, and partners. Soto and Cates hope the film will help open doors for young people and enlighten others--about sexuality and ballet.

04/05/2008
The Kansas City Star: Three Reasons to Stay up Late
Independent Lens ... shows us that television wasn’t just created to be a wall of blaring light and sound. By being small, intimate and honest, it can blow you away just as powerfully.

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