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Anthem Film Festival Review: North Korea Nightmare and China Fears
“Go to where the light is” may seem a strange directive for someone seeking to escape from a totalitarian regime until one sees a photo of North Korea and its neighbors taken from a satellite. Yeonmi Park’s tale of her escape reveals that not only is the darkness physical, but spiritual as well.
Read More »Anthem Film Review: ‘Democracy Through the Looking Glass: Media & Politics in the Post-Truth Era’
Alice had to step through the looking glass to discover a strange world where everything was backwards and made no sense. Filmmaker Kevin Bowe only had to go to New Hampshire during the 2015 presidential primary. His film, Democracy Through the Looking Glass: Media & Politics in the Post-Truth Era, screened at the Anthem Film Festival, part of FreedomFest. FreedomFest, a libertarian political and financial conference, now in its tenth year, bills itself as the worlds “largest gathering of free minds."
Read More »Anthem Film Festival Review: ‘I Am, or How Jack Became Black’
"I Am, or How Jack Became Black" challenges current thinking and vested interests regarding America’s attitudes about race.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: Three Short Film Jewels About Dreams, Trauma, and Mules
Three short films that each shed light on what it means to be an individual and how we experience the world.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: Slavery Is Alive and Well (And May Be Living Down Your Street)
Slavery has become more subtle and is not just something that happens far away in third world countries. 'The Return' takes us into the world of a Filipino house maid held captive for years by an upper class family in Orange County, California.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: Laughing Though the Pain
Between films focusing on dysfunctional futures, police excesses, brain damage, political oppression, climate fraud, cancer, and unjust imprisonment, Anthem Film Festival director Jo Ann Skousen worked in a few films that inspired giggles and guffaws. Thank you, Jo Ann.
Read More »Anthem FilmFest: Plato, Revolting, and Mendocino – All in a Cave
Ancient Greek philosopher Plato put in a couple of appearances at the Anthem Film Festival in Las Vegas, July 8-11. Two of the short films showed influence, if not direct inspiration, by Plato's tale of the cave, written 2,500 years ago. The films, 'The Cage' and 'Helio' both deserve praise for supporting the human quest for freedom and individualism. Cinematically, 'Helio' was a winner and 'The Cage' was not.
Read More »Anthem Film Fest – ‘The Conversation’ in the Bag
Socrates would be proud.
Read More »Anthem Film Fest: Two for the Culture
Narrative film – movies that tell a story through drama or comedy – has the power to foster cultural change, as these two films demonstrate
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