Linda goldstein knowlton biography of barack obama
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Box Office Report: Anti-Obama Doc Beats New Films With $6.3 Mil on Eve of GOP Convention
Galvanizing conservatives, Dinesh D’Souza and John Sullivan’s documentary 2016: Obama’s America grossed a stellar $6.3 million as it expanded nationwide over the weekend, beating a trio of new films.
The anti-Barack Obamafilm, opening last month in only a few theaters, boasts a domestic cume of $9.2 million, the top gross of the year for a documentary (excluding nature films). Bully was the previous crownholder with $3.5 million.
Among other records, Obama’s America is now the top conservative documentary of all time, beating out Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed ($7.7 million).
Obama’s America — promoted heavily on talk radio and distributed by Rocky Mountain Pictures — timed its nationwide expansion to the Republican National Convention, which gets underway this week in Tampa, Fla. The convention was supposed to get underw
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Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Director of “Split at the Root” at SXSW.
In looking over the documentaries that were part of SXSW 2022 I was looking forward to “Split at the Root,” directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton, the story of the separation of mothers from their children as a result of the 2018 Trump Administration’s Zero Tolerance policy at our southern border. It turned out to be extremely long (100 minutes) and mainly a talking head approach featuring the women held hostage in the detention cells at the border. Yeni Rodriguez speaks Spanish and there are English subtitles, but, honestly, the documentary seemed as though it were 3 hours long. Judicious editing could have made this a much better work. I’d recommend watching Dan Parkland’s “Unhinged” as a good example of how to edit a documentary.
Yeni Gonzalez is a good spokesperson for the cause. She memorized all the names, phone numbers and addresses of other female detainees at the Eloy, Arizona, La Palma Cor
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Sustainability Series: WE ARE THE RADICAL MONARCHS
Available to watch November 2nd – 4th, 2020
Post-show Zoom discussion at 8:30PM on Wednesday, Nov 4th
How to watch
Watch free films from the Fall Sustainability Series lineup and participate in virtual discussions from home!
To participate, please register for each event using the registration below. An email will be delivered to you when the bio becomes available to stream, containing a link to watch and a link to the Zoom discussion. All Zoom discussions will take place on Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. Registrants will have access to films in advance, though we recommend viewing the films on the day of the panel discussion.
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About the film
A group of tween girls chant into megaphones, marching in the San Francisco TransMarch. Holding clenched fists high, they wear brown berets and vests showcasing colorful badges like “Black Lives Matter