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The Truly Blind Side

An article in yesterday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times noted that “The Blind Side,” starring Sandra Bullock was becoming a sleeper hit film by unconventional means. Unlike mega-blockbusters, the cinematic tale of a rich white Christian family taking in a young homeless black teenager has grossed big box office numbers through small towns. Based [...]

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New Mendez v. Westminster Film Set to Premiere!

As the discussion on Orange County’s most famous desegregation case broadens up to consider the “et als” of Mendez v. Westminster, a new documentary on its history is set to premiere tomorrow. Fullerton college faculty librarian Erica Bennett’s “Tales of a Golden State: The Mendez v. Westminster Story” is a forty-minute film exploring the stories [...]

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A Grin Without A Cat

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXIXa-PXGYI] French filmmaker Chris Marker’s three hour epic cinematic meditation on the rise and the fall of the new left has finally arrived to home video. His documentary “A Grin Without A Cat,” traverses the world over from Vietnam, to Cuba, to Chile, to France in compiling a mosaic of rare historical footage from the late [...]

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Resistance is Fertile!

With the slogan of “greening the hood for the common good,” a group of young South Los Angeles teens are taking direct action in their city. Known collectively as “South Central Resistance,” the youth practice guerrilla gardening with seed bombs and spirit. The concept is quite simple. Find a barren plot of land in the [...]

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Don't Sleep on It!

Young and upcoming film maker, Alex Rivera’s first feature length film, Sleep Dealer, hits the theaters this weekend. Not your average science-fiction film, Sleep Dealer is set on the border between the US and Mexico at a time when workers sell their virtual cheap labor across borders without actually crossing them, poor people sell their [...]

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