IDFA continues to weave its spell.
The biggest and best documentary film festival in the world has taken over the centre of Amsterdam, and I’m spending hours in darkened cinemas, emerging blinking into the light only for a change in venue or a loo stop before plunging in again. I feel like I’ve spent days jumping [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2010’
Burma, chid sports stars, and rickshawdrivers seen through the IDFA window
Id’s fun at IDFA
It’s the biggest documentary film festival in the world - IDFA hits Amsterdam every year around this time and I love it. I usually spent the whole week high on celluloid-fuelled adrenalin, rushing from one cinema to the next to cram in as much as possible, then in the short blank spaces in between, jump [...]
The Lady is free and the people of Burma is waiting for her to guide their destiny
She’s free, and the world suddenly seems a slightly better place.
Have you, like me been glued to the news channels over the weekend, switching from radio to tv to get a glimpse of her or even hear her voice?
Aung San Suu Kyi revered heroine of the democracy movement in Burma was released this week after [...]
Those sharing messages on the Net occasionally turn up gold
My mum is always emailing me those links to cutsey messages - you know, those ghastly Hallmark things that say things like: ”send a smile to 10 people and make the world a better place”. I hate those things. And I mean HATE them with a passion.
I mean, who has the time in a busy working day to [...]
To Give or Not to Give
Here’s a dilemma that I as a card carrying Bleeding Heart Liberal, am grappling with right now: Does my bleeding heart mean I have blood on my hands?
Disaster happens somewhere in the world, affecting millions of people. One’s heart bleeds. One sends off an immediate donation to a humanitarian aid organization who’s mobilized in the [...]
