By Amra Alirejsovic Los Angeles, California 26 April 2007 Harun Mehmedinovic is a young Bosnian-American filmmaker who is studying at the American Film Institute (A.F.I.) in California, one of the most prestigious film schools in the world. His late...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 03 March 2007 Africa's largest film festival closes tonight in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The Pan African Film and Television festival, known as FESPACO, showed films from more than 40 countries, including a growing selection of...
By Kane Farabaugh New York City 01 March 2007 watch Jesus Tomb report Academy Award-winning director James Cameron is at the center of a controversy that strikes at the heart of some of Christianity's fundamental beliefs. Cameron has made a document...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 23 February 2007 Filmmakers, fans and critics are preparing to attend one of Africa's largest film festivals known as FESPACO. As theaters are shutting down across Africa, the festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso opening this S...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 13 February 2007 A new film called Rwanda Rising looks at the African nation 12 years after the Rwandan genocide. Mike O'Sullivan reports, the documentary produced by Andrew Young, former U.S. ambassador to the United...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 10 January 2007 Carlo Ponti, one of Italy's best-known film producers and the husband of actress Sophia Loren, has died in Geneva at the age of 94. In his 50-year career, Ponti produced more than 150 films. Sabina Castelf...
By Jim Bertel Washington, DC 22 December 2006 watch The Nativity Story report The Nativity Story A new film features some familiar Hollywood plot lines: a scandalous teenage pregnancy and young runaways fleeing the law. What makes this different fro...
By VOA News 21 November 2006 Pioneering director Robert Altman, the man behind the satirical films MASH, Nashville and The Player, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 81. Mike O'Sullivan reports, he was considered an outsider in Hollywood. Robert...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 17 October 2006 Artists through the ages have depicted Jesus in different ways, according to their culture and audience. The new film, 'Color of the Cross,' shows Jesus as black. African-American filmmaker Jean-Claude...
By Greg Flakus Dallas, TX 21 September 2006 watch American Ramadan Movie Muslims around the world will begin a month of fasting and prayers known as Ramadan on September 23rd. (The exact date is determined by Muslim holy men using the lunar calendar...