From Quebec the documentary “Le Plein Potentiel” a glimpse at the practice and business of “life coaching”. Having worked in the corporate sector for many years I am no stranger to “life coaching” where at one point it was a hot trend enabling executives to move up the ladder by being able to manipulate theContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary Film: “Le Plein Potentiel” (Your Higher Self)”
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RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “A Fly on the Wall”: Caution You May be Swatted and Squished!
Assuming you were terminally ill and suffering. Would you fight and suffer until the end or turn to medically assisted in dying (MAID)? Sixty-year-old Chika Kapadia is in the last stages of an aggressive terminal cancer. He has requested his long-time friend and filmmaker Shonali Bose to film him in Geneva to the point heContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “A Fly on the Wall”: Caution You May be Swatted and Squished!”
27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Biko and His Balkan Orchestra”: Sometimes Very Good Things Happen to Those Who Wait
Biko Agusev resides in the Republic of North Macedonian town of Strumica 53 kms from the Greek border. His “clan”, as Biko refers to, has been playing music for generations. His band is preparing to perform at the Naousa Carnival a pre-Lent Mardi Gras type of festival occurring annually in the city of Naousa, GreeceContinue reading “27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Biko and His Balkan Orchestra”: Sometimes Very Good Things Happen to Those Who Wait”
27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “10 Reports in 10 Minutes”: On the Front Lines of Child Pornography “Management”
Eko and five other analysts work at the Dutch Pornography Reporting Centre reviewing material provided to it through a national hotline. Eko is the longest serving analyst with four years experience and has removed some 200,000 offensive online videos and pictures. Viewers spend 15 minutes watching Eko at work commenting to the camera what heContinue reading “27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “10 Reports in 10 Minutes”: On the Front Lines of Child Pornography “Management””
27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: HOT DOCS: “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story”
Jackie Shane (born Jack Shane) was born in Nashville in 1940 abandoned by his 16-year-old unmarried mother being brought up by relatives. By eight years of age he was singing in a church choir adding to his musical background of spiritual music played often by his grandmother. Shane purchased some drums to start his musicalContinue reading “27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: HOT DOCS: “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story””
27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “My Sextortion Diary” (Todo Lo Cubre la Sol): A Currency of Threats and Humiliation
Patricia Franquesa, a Spanish filmmaker, meets her ex-boyfriend at a restaurant in Madrid for lunch. Her laptop is stolen by two men as is visible on security camera footage. She reports the matter to the Madrid police. Two months later a hacker informs her three “compromising pictures” on her laptop will be distributed to allContinue reading “27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “My Sextortion Diary” (Todo Lo Cubre la Sol): A Currency of Threats and Humiliation”
27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Small Dogs Bark Loud”: A Recipe for a Successful Children’s Documentary
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival runs until 16March2025. “Small Dogs Bark Loud” is a Norwegian documentary deserving categorization as a successful children’s documentary and even more appealing as it doesn’t leave the adult viewer drowning in syrupy and overly simplistic platitudes. Tuni, a twelve-year-old, lives with her family undergoing challenges leaving Tuni with someContinue reading “27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Small Dogs Bark Loud”: A Recipe for a Successful Children’s Documentary”
27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “9:30”: Finding Some Good from the Depths of Unspeakable Horror
It was just another day in May of 2020 at 09:30 when 34-year-old accountant Ionna Paliospirou parked her car and headed towards the elevator in the lobby that would take her up to her office in suburban Athens. But it was no ordinary day as she was attacked by the elevator by a mentally disturbedContinue reading “27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “9:30”: Finding Some Good from the Depths of Unspeakable Horror”
27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Death Plan for a Dog and a Man”: The Oracle of Death in Athens Speaks
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival runs until 16March2025. Slice and dice your interpretation of the Greek documentary “Death Plan for a Dog and a Man” and you just may have nailed down the last nail of the coffin. For lack of a more sophisticated descriptor this is a “fun” film but one with deepContinue reading “27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Death Plan for a Dog and a Man”: The Oracle of Death in Athens Speaks”
RKS 2025 Film: “CIRCUSBOY” (Zircusboy): A Longstanding German Tradition
“CIRCUSBOY”, a German documentary, focuses on the Arena Circus owned by the Frank family in the circus business for some 200 years. “CIRCUSBOY” recently had its world premiere at The Berlin International Film Festival. The Arena Circus represents a long-standing German travelling circus tradition. It is a circus one will not see in North AmericaContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “CIRCUSBOY” (Zircusboy): A Longstanding German Tradition”
