“Million Dollar Pigeons” is a fascinating look into the exciting (yes I said exciting!) world of pigeon racing. Once a working man’s sport it has morphed into a multi-million-dollar business where recently two million dollars was spent by a Chinese bidder on a pigeon in an auction. The Chinese millionaires are in the auction arenaContinue reading “RKS Film: “Million Dollar Pigeons”: Do You Still Think Pigeons Are Flying Rats?”
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RKS Film: “Images of a Nordic Drama”: Battle Royale in the Art World (Toronto Hot Docs Festival)
Norwegian art collector Haakon Mehren is reluctantly led to a barn in 1990 by his friend who has unearthed a huge cache of paintings by unknown Norwegian artist Aksel Waldemar Johannessen (1880-1922). Another collection of his paintings is held by his surviving daughter. Mehren thinking that “treasures in a barn” is a fairy tale isContinue reading “RKS Film: “Images of a Nordic Drama”: Battle Royale in the Art World (Toronto Hot Docs Festival)”
RKS Film: “The Smell of Money”: A Big Battle Against Big Pork Megacorp!
Elsie Herring was a resident of Eastern North Carolina in the United States that fought tooth and nail against the big pork processors in Duplin County. Her grandfather as a former slave purchased tracts of land in the county for farming purposes. The Big Pork Megacorps mushroomed in Eastern North Carolina in the 1980’s andContinue reading “RKS Film: “The Smell of Money”: A Big Battle Against Big Pork Megacorp!”
RKS Film: “Road Trip”: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Panah Panahi has crafted a clever film in the Iranian film “Road Trip”. It is a wonderful film and does not hand feed you. It is delightfully vague and I believe perhaps intentionally so or has Iranian autocracy hardwired Panahi as a matter of survival to be discrete? If you know the repression of IranianContinue reading “RKS Film: “Road Trip”: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
RKS Film: “Beautiful Scars”: Tom Wilson’s Journey
As human beings when our time comes to pass into the other world we will have collected a series of life experiences. They will range from horrific to ecstatic. Canadian musician Tom Wilson seems to have experienced the complete range. It is the unpleasant ones that leave scars. A scar is a healed wound butContinue reading “RKS Film: “Beautiful Scars”: Tom Wilson’s Journey”
TEXAS FILMMAKERS AND STORIES TAKE CENTER STAGE AT
EARTHX FILM FESTIVAL 2022, MAY 12-15 Festival Welcomes Directors with Ties to Texas Ben Masters, Raj Patel, John Claiborne Brown, Brandon Holmes, Alejandra Vasquez, and Kathryn Francis Festival Showcases Powerful Texas Stories of Nature and Conservation, Climate Change, Oil Drilling vs. Property Rights, Boom and Bust Oil, Fast Fashion and more Dallas, TX (April 21,Continue reading “TEXAS FILMMAKERS AND STORIES TAKE CENTER STAGE AT“
RKS Film: “Peace by Chocolate”: Struggles of All Sorts
“Peace By Chocolate” is based on a true story. The film could have easily taken the route of another food namely cheese but it does not. Yes it has a happy ending but after many struggles between the characters. Tareq (Ayham Abou Ammar) and his family flee war in Syria which has destroyed Tareq’s father’sContinue reading “RKS Film: “Peace by Chocolate”: Struggles of All Sorts”
RKS Film: “Silent Beauty”: A Monstrous Chain of Pedophilia
“Silent Beauty” has very few moments of beauty in it and what beauty there is displaced by a monstrous chain of pedophilia. Director Jasmin Mara López is on Facebook one day and a picture of her grandfather with her niece explodes bringing to her the necessity of telling family members she was repeatedly abused byContinue reading “RKS Film: “Silent Beauty”: A Monstrous Chain of Pedophilia”
RKS Film: “Make People Better”: Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival
“Make People Better” is documentary about genetic engineering of human embryos. Your initial reaction may be strongly against “playing God”. After the documentary you might be thinking if controlled and regulated there is a valid use for it. He Jiankui (JK) is a young Chinese biologist that had gone further than others by genetically engineeringContinue reading “RKS Film: “Make People Better”: Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival”
RKS Film: “The Eye of the Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis”
The six-part series “The Eye of the Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis” pays close attention to the “Great Greek Default” in three of the episodes while in the subsequent three episodes digs deep into theories of political economy and is involved with political movements to change the world order particularly climate change. VaroufakisContinue reading “RKS Film: “The Eye of the Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis””
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