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Connecting With Young Artists in Morocco

Posted May 23, 2012, by Brittany Ballard, Manager, FILM FORWARD

Connecting With Young Artists in Morocco

FILM FORWARD returned to Morocco for a second year and had another successful collaboration with the U.S. Embassy, Rabat. We…

Film Forward Travelogue: Reaching across borders from Calexico to Mexicali

Posted May 18, 2012, by Jennifer Prediger

Film Forward Travelogue: Reaching Across Borders from Calexico to Mexicali

The way Calexico and Mexicali play off each other gives reason to be excited about traveling to the Imperial Valley in…

BUCK Goes to the Imperial Valley

Posted May 9, 2012, by Cindy Meehl, director, BUCK

BUCK Goes to the Imperial Valley and Mexicali

The Imperial Valley in California is a unique border location that I had never heard of before I went with FILM FORWARD and my…

Rachel Perkins’ Bran Nue Dae Creates a sense of cultural pride in Mexico

Posted May 9, 2012, by Jennifer Prediger

Rachel Perkins' Bran Nue Day creates a sense of cultural pride in Mexico

Australian director Rachel Perkins wanted the world to see Aboriginal people in a different way. Their culture had been…

Buck Reaches At-Risk Youth on the Border

Posted May 4, 2012, by Jennifer Prediger

Buck Reaches At-Risk Youth on the Border

Spending an afternoon at Calexico High School just about a mile from the border of Mexico, Buck Director Cindy Meehl had a…

Bran Nue Dae Hits Home with Imperial Valley Students

Posted May 4, 2012, by Nate von Zumwalt, Editorial Coordinator

Bran Nue Dae Hits Home with Imperial Valley Students

Imperial Valley and Australia would appear to be in diametric contradiction to one another. One resides in the Northern…

Our Return to Morocco

Posted May 3, 2012, by Brittany Ballard

Our Return to Morocco

 On the heels of an incredible Imperial Valley program currently under way, FILM FORWARD journeys to the Kingdom of Morocco for…

Headed West: FILM FORWARD Stops in Imperial Valley

Posted Apr 27, 2012, by Jacqueline Carlson

Headed West: FILM FORWARD Stops in Imperial Valley and Mexico

After a bustling March featuring FILM FORWARD stops in India and China, the program is headed to California for a week-long…

A Director’s Homecoming: Asif Kapdia Recalls Bringing Senna to India

Posted Apr 23, 2012, by Asif Kapadia, director, Senna

A Director's Homecoming: Asif Kapadia Recalls Bringing Senna to India

FILM FORWARD was a chance for me to continue the cultural dialogue I have been having with India through cinema all of my life.…

Producer Diary from China

Posted Apr 2, 2012, by Andrea Meditch, Co-Executive Producer and Creative Consultant on Buck

Buck in China: Redefining the American Hero

Kunming, China, it turns out, is mostly cement and just as polluted as other Chinese cities, but it didn’t matter because we…

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