“She believes that shining a light is the most important thing.” A President who claims news outlets lie. Social media bots that spread misinformation. Intimidation of reporters by both governmental and unofficial sources. A leading reporter arrested multiple times. The government, meanwhile, is conducting its war on drugs by killings across the country. Yet the… [Read More]
Most Wanted – The Cost of Ambition
What happens when a big, police inspired drug sting goes bad? Most Wanted, from writer/director Daniel Roby, is inspired by a true story of a Canadian man who was used by the police and left hanging in the wind when things turned bad. Daniel Léger (Antoine-Olivier Pilon) is a recovering heroin addict, who finds himself… [Read More]
Dateline-Saigon – Fighting the Lie Machine
“There are these two armies that are going to meet: this tiny little army of journalists—five, or six, seven—and this army of policy.” The role of a journalist is to share the truth. During the early years of the Vietnam War, a small group of young journalists who were assigned to Vietnam recognized that the… [Read More]
Joseph Pulitzer: The Voice of the Poeple
Most people know of Joseph Pulitzer because of the Pulitzer Prizes awarded each year. They may associate him with yellow journalism. But there is much more to this man as we discover in Joseph Pulitzer: The Voice of the People, opening in theaters and coming later to the PBS American Masters series. As Nicholson Baker… [Read More]
Day4 at NBFF
The interaction of news events and the journalists covering the events made up the focus of the first two films of the day. Another News Story, directed by Orban Wallace, follows the story of immigrants to Europe from the time they land on the Greek island of Lesbos as they work their way through various… [Read More]
The Post – Releasing the Truth
It’s hard to think of a time when a film that highlights the First Amendment is not timely, but it certainly seems especially so with this film.
