<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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Sabaya – Rescued from ISIS

Sabaya – Rescued from ISIS

Jul 30, 2021

The mission: go into a camp filled with Daesh (ISIS) supporters and rescue Yazidi girls and women held as sex slaves. Sabaya won the directing award for World Cinema Documentary for Hogir Hirori at the Sundance Film Festival. Billed as a docu-thriller, the film shines...

Nine Days – Life Before Life

Nine Days – Life Before Life

Jul 29, 2021

?You are being considered for the amazing opportunity of life.? What were you like before you became you? Is there life before life? Edson Oda?s Nine Days doesn?t so much ask or answer such questions, it plays with the possibilities they present. In the process we...

Tailgate – Pride without Grace

Tailgate – Pride without Grace

Jul 28, 2021

?The time for apologies is behind us.? Tailgate, from writer/director Lodewijk Crijns, is a psychological thriller built around road rage (and perhaps just rage in general). What begins as a simple road trip turns into a journey into fear and danger. Hans (Joroen...

Mama Weed – Making the Most of Opportunity

Mama Weed – Making the Most of Opportunity

Jul 16, 2021

Mama Weed (La Daronne), from director Jean-Paul Salom?, takes us into the Paris underworld, but from a somewhat different perspective. Our entry into that world is not through a hardened career criminal or long-suffering police officer. It is a woman who stumbles into...

The Phantom – Killing the Innocent

The Phantom – Killing the Innocent

Jul 2, 2021

?If you?re poor, and you have no money, and can?t get yourself a lawyer who really gives a shit about your case, you?re going to die.? Capital punishment continues to be controversial, although more states are moving away from its use, either by law or by practice....

Audible – Teen Angst in Silence

Audible – Teen Angst in Silence

Jul 1, 2021

The teen years can be a challenge. It is a time when people struggle with their identity and their place in the world. Even for the most ?normal? of teens, these years can be a struggle. Add to that having to deal with a disability. In Matthew Ogens?s documentary...