Let's Put on a Show!!!

And so Oscar Week begins with the screenings and panel discussions of all the nominated Short and Feature Documentaries,Short Live Action and Animated Films and Foreign Films. It's a film-lover's heaven not just for old white men, glamour gals and gossip.
This evening, one of the woman directors eloquently and optimistically pointed out the POWER of documentary film: On Monday, her film ("The Girl in the River") was viewed by the President and leaders of Pakistan and that very day they enacted a national mandate making "honor killings" illegal.
Here's a sampling from some of the ten films tonight: a nurse's courage dealing with Ebola in her country, the long-term effects of Agent Orange on a Vietnamese teen aspiring to be an artist, citizen heroes in the Ukraine and Mexican border towns, what happens when the death penalty comes knocking on your family's door, and a nearly silent film revealing the long-held secrets of Indonesian genocide. These are NOT white girl problems...