If you want to learn anything about surfing, Dana Brown’s films are the ones to watch. The son of legendary filmmaker Bruce Brown — who brought the sport to the big screen with Endless Summer — Dana is following in his father’s footprints and creating some of the most exciting surf documentaries out there. His latest, Highwater,…
The highly-anticipated big-screen adaptation of Eat Pray Love opened this past weekend with respectable — but not knock-out — box office numbers, coming in second behind the testosterone-loaded The Expendables. Why didn’t the film version of a book that ruled the New York Times Best Seller list for more than three years have a bigger impact? Maybe because not every…
Amy was captivated the minute she saw “Para Fuera,” a short film directed by Nick Jasenovec, whose “Paper Heart” was a Sundance sensation last year. Here’s what Nick told her about the making of the nine-minute documentary that wowed audiences at Sundance this year and was one of 10 films selected by the jury to feature on the…
Being a woman in Afghanistan is hard enough. Now imagine being a woman running for president there. That’s the challenge Dr. Massouda Jalal faced in Afghanistan’s first democratic election ever – and, although she didn’t win, she did come in sixth out of seventeen candidates, opening a lot of people’s eyes and becoming a role…
Forget the history books. The best way to understand the true culture of a country is to listen to its citizens. In HISTORY’s amazing “The People Speak,” America’s rich past is brought to life through speeches, letters and music presented by today’s most talented voices and paying homage to ordinary citizens whose words and actions…
