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We’re big fans of film festivals here at Moviehole – how could you not be? We’re also big fans of Twin Peaks, so the proposal of a film festival taking place in the very shooting location of that beloved series sounds as perfect a combo as coffee and donuts.
This year marked the second edition of the North Bend Film Festival, which was founded by Hugues Barbier, Jess Byers and Justin Timms. This is our first time covering the festival – remotely, of course, as this is a physical/digital hybrid festival – and between the eclectic selection of films and wonderfully well coordinated nature of the whole experience, we’d love to return next year.
Minnesota native hopes Oscar-nominated film draws attention to crisis in Yemen
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Minnesota native hopes Oscar-nominated film draws attention to crisis in Yemen
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The Oscar nominees for Documentary Shorts are usually very difficult to watch. I mean, they re uniformly excellent, but the films are always extremely topical and unflinchingly brutal in their dedication to truth. At Tin Pan Theater over the last six or seven years, I ve been lucky enough to watch most of the Oscar Shorts (including the Animation and Live Action ones), but I m not sure any single short film affected me the way Skye Fitzgerald and Michael Scheuerman s Hunger Ward did. Hunger Ward focuses on the famine in Yemen, ongoing since 2016 and beginning during the Yemini Civil War. As of 2018, more than 85,000 children have died with UNICEF calling the famine the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. The film follows health care workers Dr. Aida Alsadeeq and Nurse Mekkia Mahdi across two hospitals as they struggle to combat child malnutrition. It s filled with stories and imagery that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
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