Tag: DOCUMENTARIES
Premiering at SXSW this year on March 11 is Australian director Eva Orner’s documentary The Network, chronicling the rise of TOLO TV, the first independent television network in Afghanistan established in the wake of the American invasion. Launched in 2004, TOLO has since grown to employ 800 Afghan news producers and is one of the […]
The Theremin is best known as either: a) the instrument behind the crazy wooshing sound at the end of “Good Vibrations,” b) the sound of countless vintage horror and sci-fi films, or c) it’s not known at all. But Thomas Grillo is keeping true to the instrument’s heritage, invoking OG virtuoso Clara Rockmore and producing […]
To this day, Aron Kay is a regular on the New York City protest circuit, spotted intermittently at OWS and the annual Global Marijuana March. He’s best known though for throwing pies at very influential faces starting in the early 70s, earning himself the moniker, “Mad Yippie Pieman.” (Check it out, he’s even a [dot] […]
David Seth Cohen is a guy who once worked as a production assistant on an Adam Sandler film (the comedian, not the racist Times Square Elmo). Sandler, who is apparently Cohen’s idol, once offered Cohen a drink after he delivered a costume to Sandler’s apartment, and Cohen declined. Fourteen years of “sleepless nights” later, Cohen […]
