“Wake Up on Mars”: Virtual Human Rights Watch Film Festival Canada

“Wake up on Mars” is one weird documentary. A Muslim family flees persecution in Kosovo and seeks refugee status in Sweden but they are deported back to Kosovo yet again they flee to Sweden where finally they obtain their residency permits. However both teenage daughters are in a vegetative state apparently with “resignation syndrome” whichContinue reading ““Wake Up on Mars”: Virtual Human Rights Watch Film Festival Canada”

“Maxima”: What a David and Goliath Story: Human Rights Watch Film Festival Canada

I could easily summarize this documentary as “David vs Goliath”. However as a highly paid internet writer my audience expects more but certainly less than the 7 pages of notes I wrote on the film. I’ll keep it simple. Maxima Acuña and her family live in a remote part of the Peruvian highlands living offContinue reading ““Maxima”: What a David and Goliath Story: Human Rights Watch Film Festival Canada”