New films about Cambodia and Czechoslovakia
Collective Eye has added two important films on Cambodia and human rights as well as a the inspiring story of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. Please read below:
Bombhunters is an engrossing examination of the micro-economy that has emerged in Cambodia of untrained civilians harvesting unexploded bombs as scrap metal.
Finding Face details the controversial case of Tat Marina, who was attacked with acid in Cambodia in 1999.
Narrated by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons, The Power of the Powerless explores Czechoslovakia’s legacy of communist rule and the struggle to fight against it.
New films added to catalog!
Collective Eye takes a closer look at gay rights, women in the arts and the future of orangutans in three fascinating new films.
Out in the Silence dramatically illustrates filmmaker Joe Wilson’s journey of negotiating the morally charged issue of sexual orientation and the potential for building bridges in the midst of opposition.
Who Does She Think She Is? comes from the producing team that won an Academy Award for Born into Brothels, and examines some of the most pressing issues of our time: parenting and work, partnering and independence, economics and art.
The Disenchanted Forest looks at the animals we call o-rang-u-tans, which literally means “forest persons” in the Malay and Indonesian languages. They are the only great apes native to Asia and they face extinction.