Amy King interviews Erin Essenmacher, producer of MINE and Scotlund Haisley, animal welfare leader at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, MD.
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I’ve thoroughly enjoyed two pop-culture references to indie (or independent, but we’ll get into that with a little help from Strongbad in a few) film and documentary film in the last week. The first one I saw on the NBC show Community recently where one of the characters decides he wants to follow his dreams [...]

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UPDATE August 21: Free the Beijing 6 [from FreeTibet2008.org]
BREAKING NEWS – August 21 – 11PM Beijing: Six foreigners given 10 days’ detention by Beijing Police.
BEIJING (AFP) — Beijing police said Thursday it had handed out 10-day detention terms to six foreigners believed by an overseas activist group to be pro-Tibet campaigners involved in Olympic [...]

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Doctor Popular pointed out to me one day that a blog post he had written showed up on the front page of IMDB (The Internet Movie Database). I had mentioned that I had a film club in college and had been, in fact, dying to start a film club here in DC. [...]

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