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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Documentaries</title>
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		<title>Yoav Shamir&#8217;s DEFAMATION Opens in NY/LA</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/yoav-shamir-defamation-screenings-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defamation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoav Shamir]]></category>

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  European Film Award nominee and a very likely contender for the 2010 best documentary feature Academy Award*, Yoav Shamir&#8217;s Defamation opens on Friday, Nov. 20, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities across the United States.
The film info below is from distributor First Run Features&#8217; website:
&#34;Intent on shaking up the ultimate ‘sacred cow’ for Jews, Israeli  director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative &#8212; and at times irreverent  &#8212; quest to answer the question, &#8216;What is anti-Semitism today?&#8217; Does it  remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used  by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics?
&#34;Speaking  with an array of people from across the political spectrum (including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOUR SEASONS LODGE Screenings</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/four-seasons-lodge-screenings-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert  Maysles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Jacobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Four Seasons Lodge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Screenings]]></category>

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Directed by Andrew Jacobs, Four Seasons Lodge is currently playing at New York City&#8217;s IFC Center at Sixth Avenue at West Third Street. The film opens Friday, Nov. 20, at the Quad Cinema at 34 West 13th Street. This week, the filmmaker will be present at the IFC Center&#8217;s Wednesday-Thursday 8pm shows.
The Four Seasons Lodge summary reads:
&#34;From the darkness of Hitler&#8217;s Europe to the lush mountains of New  York&#8217;s Catskills, Four Seasons Lodge follows a community of Holocaust  survivors who come together each summer at their beloved bungalow  colony to dance, cook, fight and flirt &#8212; and celebrate their survival.  Beautifully photographed by a team of cinematographers led by Albert  Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLESSED IS THE MATCH, PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/blessed-is-the-match-pray-the-devil-back-to-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gini Reticker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linwood Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pray the Devil Back to Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roberta Grossman]]></category>

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Roberta Grossman&#8217;s Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh and Gini Reticker&#8217;s Pray the Devil Back to Hell (above, lower photo) will be screened as part of the Academy of  Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual “Contemporary  Documentaries” series on Wednesday, November 11, at 7 p.m. at the  Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh tells  the story  of poet, diarist, and paratrooper Hannah Senesh, who took part in the only military rescue mission for Jews during  the Holocaust. Blessed Is the Match was also produced by  Grossman, who will be present to take  questions from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DAVID MCCULLOUGH, GLASS: A PORTRAIT OF PHILIP Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/david-mccullough-philip-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David McCullough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David McCullough: Painting with Words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Glass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Hicks]]></category>

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David McCullough: Painting with Words (top); Philip Glass in GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts (bottom)

 David McCullough: Painting with Words and GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion  Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual “Contemporary Documentaries”  series on Wednesday, November 4, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater  in Hollywood. Admission is free.
 Directed by Mark  Herzog and produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, David McCullough: Painting with Words takes a look at the career of Pulitzer Prize-winning  author David McCullough (Truman, John Adams). Herzog will be present to take questions from the audience  following the screening.
Shot on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE END OF POVERTY? US Release</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/the-end-of-poverty-us-release/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amartya Sen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cinema Libre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Sheen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philippe Diaz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The End of Poverty?]]></category>

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Philippe Diaz&#8217;s documentary The End of Poverty?, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival&#8217;s Critics’ Week sidebar and has been screened at more than two dozen  international film festivals, will be released nationwide by Cinema Libre starting in New York City on November 13 (at the Village East Cinema), followed by Los Angeles on November 25 (at the Laemmle Sunset 5 and Culver Plaza Theaters), with a platform release to follow including runs in Seattle, Portland, and Austin, and later in Boston, San Francisco, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Atlanta.
&#34;Most of the experts interviewed in the film had predicted the current economic crisis more than two years ago, when we started to film, explaining that a system based on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GLASS HOUSE, BANKING ON HEAVEN Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/the-glass-house-banking-on-heaven-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Cinematheque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banking of Heaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dot Reidelbach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Rahmanian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Allen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Glass House]]></category>

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Two new documentaries to be screened at the American Cinematheque:
The Glass House (above) with director Hamid Rahmanian In Person
  Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at the Aero Theatre
Banking of Heaven with writer-producer Laurie Allen In Person
An Unflinching Look at the Controversial Latter-Day Saint Community
Thursday, October 29, 2009  at the Egyptian Theatre
The Glass House, which was screened at Sundance 2009, is  &#34;an intimate portrait of the never-before-seen plight of underclass Iranian women,&#34; while Banking of Heaven is &#34; an unflinching look at a controversial Latter-Day Saints community&#34; that is described as &#34;home to a culture that routinely practices child rape, welfare fraud and systematic mind control.&#34;
Wednesday, October 28 &#8211; 7:30 PM at the Aero Theatre
THE GLASS HOUSE, 2009, 92 min. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/encounters-at-the-end-of-the-world-flow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Encounters at the End of the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flow: For Love of Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irena Salina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linwood Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar 2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Werner Herzog]]></category>

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Werner Herzog&#8217;s Academy Award-nominated Encounters at the End of the World (above, lower photo) and Irena Salina’s Flow: For Love of Water will be screened as part  of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual  “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, October 21, at 7 p.m.  at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
Directed by Herzog and produced by Henry Kaiser, Encounters at the End of the World looks at human beings interacting with the harsh environment of   Antarctica.    Werner Herzog will be present to take  questions from the audience following the screening.
Flow: For Love of Water  deals with the dire consequences of increased privatization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TAPESTRIES OF HOPE Screening in New York</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/tapestries-of-hope-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty Makoni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freshwater Haven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girl Child Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michealene Cristini Risley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socially Conscious Movies]]></category>
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PRESS RELEASE
Freshwater Haven, a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the dramatic social change that is required to stop the physical, sexual and emotional abuse of women, announced today it’s production, Tapestries of Hope, will be shown at an exclusive screening on Sunday, October 18, 2009 in New York City. This special event will be followed by screenings at the United States Department of State and in the Capitol Visitors Center Theater 10/20/09.
Tapestries of Hope (www.tapestriesofhope.com) is an astounding story told through the eyes of filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley. The film captures her sojourn to Africa as she investigated the longstanding myths surrounding the power of virgin blood, including its ability to cure HIV/AIDS. 
Documenting the work of Zimbabwean child and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEN9EIGHT &#8211; Mary Mazzio&#8217;s Inner-City Youth Documentary</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/mary-mazzio-ten9eight-inner-city-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Mazzio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socially Conscious Movies]]></category>
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Filmmaker Mary Mazzio

PRESS RELEASE
This is the compelling question behind award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio’s newest project Ten9Eight, a thought provoking film which tells the inspirational stories of several inner city teens (of differing race, religion and ethnicity) from Harlem to Compton and all points in between, as they compete in an annual business plan competition run by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).
The film includes students such as:

Rodney Walker, age 19, Founder of Forever Life Music and Video Productions: Rodney was put into the foster care system at the age of 5 and ended up homeless on the streets of Chicago. Almost becoming a statistic like many of his brothers, Rodney was able to chart a new future – and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE: Oscar&#8217;s Docs</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/bowling-for-columbine-the-fog-of-war-oscars-docs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Errol Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Macdonald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Gimp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linwood Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One Day in September]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar’s Docs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Fog of War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years]]></category>

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Michael Moore shooting Bowling for Columbine

Michael Moore&#8217;s  Bowling for Columbine, Kevin Macdonald&#8217;s One Day in September, and Errol Morris&#8216; The Fog of War are among the 12 Oscar-winning short and feature documentaries to be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and  Sciences’ &#34;Oscar’s Docs, Part Five: Academy Award-Winning  Documentaries 1998–2003&#34; beginning Monday, October 19, at 7:30 p.m. at  the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. The screenings will be  held Monday evenings through November 23.
&#8220;Oscar’s Docs&#8221;  is a comprehensive screening series of every short subject and feature  to win the Academy Award for documentary filmmaking since the category  was established in 1941. 
As per the Academy&#8217;s press release, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspectives on Editing: Editing  for Documentary Films</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donn Cambern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Editors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Bini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Amend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Goldblatt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perspectives on Editing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Cartwright]]></category>

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Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog (lower photo)

The art and craft of editing documentary films is the topic of the third installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and  Sciences’ four-part seminar series &#34;Perspectives on Editing,&#34; which will be held on  Tuesday, October 6, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn  Theater in Hollywood.
&#34;Perspectives on Editing: Editing  for Documentary Films&#34; will be hosted by Academy Film Editors Branch  governors Donn Cambern (The Last Picture Show, The Bodyguard) and  Mark Goldblatt (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Starship Troopers).  
Special guests will include Kate Amend (The Long Way Home, Jimmy  Carter Man from Plains), Joe Bini (Little Dieter Needs to Fly,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA, THE GARDEN Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/crips-and-blood-made-in-america-the-garden-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Documentaries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Hamilton Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socially Conscious Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stacy Peralta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Garden]]></category>

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Set in Los Angeles&#8217; impoverished inner city areas, the documentaries The Garden (above, lower photo) and Crips and Bloods: Made in America will be screened as  part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual  “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m.  at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
In Scott Hamilton  Kennedy&#8217;s  The Garden,  the organization South Central Farmers fight a wealthy  developer in order to preserve the community garden they created after  the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The Garden earned an Academy Award nomination for  Documentary Feature. Kennedy will be present to take questions from the  audience following the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAN ON WIRE, IN A DREAM Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[In a Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isaiah Zagar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Marsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Zagar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Zagar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philippe Petit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

 Philippe Petit in James Marsh&#8217;s Man on Wire (top); Isaiah and Julia Zagar in Jeremiah Zagar&#8217;s In a Dream (bottom)

James Marsh&#8217;s Man on Wire and Jeremiah Zagar&#8217;s In a Dream will launch the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216;  28th  annual &#34;Contemporary Documentaries&#34; screening series  on Wednesday, September 30, at 7 p.m. at  the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings in  the series is free.
Man on Wire tells the story of  Philippe Petit, who in 1974 walked on a wire illegally rigged  between the twin towers of New York City’s World Trade Center &#8212; a feat  that became known as &#34;the artistic crime of the century.&#34; Directed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY KID COULD PAINT THAT, SALIM BABA, PLEASE VOTE FOR ME Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/salim-baba-please-vote-for-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/salim-baba-please-vote-for-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 03:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amir Bar-Lev]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Don Edkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francisco Bello]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Raja Dey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salim Baba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salim Muhammad]]></category>
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Salim Baba (right), Please Vote for Me and My Kid Could Paint That  will be screened as the final installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’  annual &#34;Contemporary Documentaries&#34; series on  Wednesday, June 3, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.  Admission is free. 
Salim Baba tells the story of  55-year-old Salim Muhammad, who, with the help of a hand-cranked projector  inherited from his  father,  has made his  living screening discarded film scraps for kids in North Kolkata,  India, for 45 years. Directed by Tim Sternberg and produced by Francisco Bello,  Scott Mosier and Raja Dey, Salim Baba earned an Academy Award  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPERATION HOMECOMING, BODY OF WAR Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/operation-homecoming-body-of-war-screening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/operation-homecoming-body-of-war-screening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 08:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Spiro]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Phil Donahue]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard E. Robbins]]></category>
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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (top photo) and Body of  War (bottom photo) will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 27th annual &#34;Contemporary Documentaries&#34; series on Wednesday,  May 13, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission  is free. 
Directed and produced by Richard E. Robbins, the Academy Award-nominated Operation Homecoming: Writing the  Wartime Experience presents letters written by  US military personnel and their families who have  been involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
Directed and produced by Ellen Spiro and former talk-show host Phil Donahue, Body  of War tells the story of 22-year-old Tomas Young, who volunteered to fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A PROMISE TO THE DEAD: THE EXILE JOURNEY OF ARIEL DORFMAN, PORTRAITS OF A LADY Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/a-promise-to-the-dead-portraits-of-a-lady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ariel Dofrman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neil Leifer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sandra Day O'Connor]]></category>
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Neil Leifer&#8217;s Portraits of a Lady and Peter Raymont&#8217;s A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey  of Ariel Dorfman will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture  Arts and Sciences&#8216; 27th annual Contemporary Documentaries series on  Wednesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in  Hollywood. Admission is free. 
Portraits of a Lady takes a look at the work of 25 artists who participated in a painting session   with former US Supreme Court judge Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor in 2006.  Following the screening, Leifer and co-producer Walter Bernard will  take  questions from the audience.

 A Promise to the Dead: The Exile  Journey of Ariel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Documenta Madrid 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/documenta-madrid-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chema Rodriguez]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Clooney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ignacio Aguero Piwonka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Carlos Rulfo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonia H. Dolz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Soderbergh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE 
108 films from 40 countries will compete in DOCUMENTA MADRID 09 
&#8226; 108 documentaries selected from among the 1000 films presented to the  competition will participate in the Competitive Sections, which have a  strong Spanish representation.
&#8226; Chema Rodríguez has two films in the Official Section, with his full-length Coyote and his short film Triste Borracha.
&#8226; The Spanish-Dutch director Sonia Herman Dolz, the Mexican Juan Carlos  Rulfo, the Chilean Ignacio Agüero Piwonka return to the festival to  compete for the Award for Best Full-length Film. 
Madrid, 14 abril -&#8217;09
In its 6th year, DOCUMENTA MADRID furthers its commitment to the  Competitive Sections, which are made up entirely of films previously  unreleased in Spain for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY KID COULD PAINT THAT d: Amir Bar-Lev</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/my-kid-could-paint-that-d-amir-bar-lev/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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My Kid Could Paint That (2007)
Direction: Amir Bar-Lev
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
In a real sense,  the 83-minute  documentary  My Kid Could Paint That is one of  the most disgusting films of all time. It disgusts because 

a) it so vividly displays  the utter nonsense and stupidity of the modern art scamming that has gone on  for the last half century or more (especially in Abstract Expressionism) &#8212; and  that’s a good thing; and 
b) it so vividly displays the exploitation of an  innocent child, Marla Olmstead, to  meet the personal and psychological demands and needs of her Mark and Laura &#8212; and that’s a bad thing.

Basically, the  film, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY KID COULD PAINT THAT Review Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/my-kid-could-paint-that-review-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/my-kid-could-paint-that-review-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MY KID COULD PAINT THAT Review &#8211; Part I

The My Kid Could Paint That DVD&#8217;s best (or worst)  feature is a brief set of queries directed at the New York Times’ Kimmelman (above).  His answers and disingenuity make for an enjoyable bit of borderline hilarity  as the man shows an utter ineptness in responding to even the most basic and  straightforward queries on art, as well as having nothing of substance to say even  when one decodes his pontifications. It’s as if he’s dedicated to the notion  that art is the preserve of  didacts and dilettantes such as himself. 
Had Bar-Lev really wanted to push the documentary form further, he could have crafted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARFUR NOW, THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/darfur-now-the-devil-came-on-horseback-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Annie Sundberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cathy Schulman]]></category>
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Darfur Now and The Devil Came on Horseback, both focusing on the ongoing Darfur crisis, will screen as part  of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 27th annual  &#34;Contemporary Documentaries&#34; series on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m.  at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free. 
Darfur Now is a call for people  everywhere to take action against the human tragedies taking place in Darfur,  Sudan. Director Theodore Braun and producer Cathy Schulman will be  present to take questions from the audience following the screening.

Directed  by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern, The Devil Came on Horseback  depicts the events in Darfur through the eyes of an American marine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMERICAN SWING d: Mathew Kaufman and Jon Hart</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/american-swing-matthew-kaufman-jon-hart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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American Swing  (2009)
Direction: Mathew Kaufman and Jon Hart
Screenplay: Keith Reamer
Interviewees: Buck Henry, Annie Sprinkle, Melvin van Peebles, Ron Jeremy, Jamie Gillis, Helen Gurley Brown, and others
&#160;


&#160;
By way of interviews, photos, and home movies, Mathew Kaufman and journalist Jon Hart&#8217;s American Swing humorously chronicles the rise and fall of all-American entrepreneur Larry Levenson, free-sex advocate and self-proclaimed &#34;King of Swing,&#34;  while painting  a nostalgic &#8212; though hardly all-flattering &#8212; portrait of the heyday of Plato&#8217;s Retreat, New York City&#8217;s foremost sex club-disco of the late 1970s.
Earlier in the decade, wholesale  meat purveyor Larry Levenson had decided to reinvent himself as a Sexual Liberation Messiah. Even so, it&#8217;s debatable whether Levenson actually saw himself as a Man with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: Documentary Feature Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/sxsw-film-festival-2009-documentary-feature-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SXSW Film Festival 2009: Documentary Feature Competition 
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Director: Bill Ross
An inquiring look at everyday life in middle  America, the film explores the congruities of daily life in an American  town Sidney, Ohio. (World Premiere)
Garbage Dreams
Director: Mai Iskander
Filmed over four years, the film follows three  teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world’s  largest garbage village. Each boy chooses a different path when their  community is suddenly faced with the globalization of their trade.   (World Premiere)
MINE: Taken By Katrina
Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of pets were  rescued and adopted by families around the country, leading to many  custody battles. Through these stories, the film examines issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SARI&#8217;S MOTHER, SICKO: Contemporary Documentaries Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/saris-mother-sicko-michael-moore-longley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Part II of the  27th annual &#34;Contemporary Documentaries&#34; screening series, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, kicks off   with  two Academy Award-nominated documentaries, James Longley&#8217;s short Sari’s Mother and Michael Moore&#8217;s controversial feature Sicko, on Wednesday, March 25, at 7 p.m. at the  Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings in the  series is free. 
Sari’s Mother chronicles an Iraqi woman’s struggle to help her  10-year-old son, Sari, who is dying of AIDS.
Directed by Michael Moore and  produced by Moore and Meghan O’Hara, Sicko is an indictment against  the ailing U.S.  health care system, through which huge corporations get richer at the expense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE SINGING REVOLUTION: Q&amp;A with Filmmakers James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/the-singing-revolution-james-tusty-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#34;Imagine the scene in  Casablanca  in which the French patrons sing &#8216;La Marseillaise&#8217; in defiance of the Germans, then multiply its power by a factor of  thousands, and you’ve only begun to imagine the force of The Singing  Revolution,&#34; wrote Matt Zoller Seitz in the New York Times in his review of James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty&#8217;s documentary about Estonia’s struggle to end Soviet occupation in the late 1980s and early 1990s. 
The curiously titled The Singing Revolution chronicles the history behind the little-known, nonviolent protests that began in the late 1980s in the small Baltic republic of Estonia, which had been annexed by the Soviet Union nearly half a century earlier. 
With glasnost and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Biggest Oscar Snubs &#8211; Nominations #5</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-thin-blue-line-oscar-snub/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-thin-blue-line-oscar-snub/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[5

In A Brief History of Errol Morris, Errol Morris discusses the making of The Thin Blue Line. Clip posted by WOODDDDDDDYAMOVIES


The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Roger &#38; Me (1990)
 Hoop Dreams (1994)
Grizzly Man (2005)


The Thin Blue Line (1988)
For better or for worse, Errol Morris&#8216; The Thin Blue Line  has been so influential that it&#8217;s become commonplace for documentary filmmakers to use (cheesy) reenactments whenever they get the chance. Additionally, Morris&#8217; investigative film won awards from the New York critics, the National Society of Film Critics, and the National Board Review, and it even led to the overturning of the murder conviction of its subject. 
The Academy&#8217;s Documentary Committee remained unimpressed, as The Thin Blue Line failed to receive a nomination. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TAPESTRIES OF HOPE: Q&amp;A with Michealene Cristini Risley</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/tapestries-of-hope-michealene-cristini-risley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/tapestries-of-hope-michealene-cristini-risley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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American filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley (right) met Zimbabwean social activist Betty Makoni at an International Development Exchange event in San Francisco. Risley was impressed with Makoni&#8217;s achievements as the founder of  Zimbabwe&#8217;s Girl Child Network, an organization dedicated to helping  young women and girls who have survived rape, a not uncommon occurrence in a part of the world where the spread of HIV remains out of control and &#34;healers&#34; prescribe &#34;young (female) virgins&#34;  as a cure for males infected with the virus. 
Now  in post-production, Tapestries of Hope became &#8212; or rather, is becoming &#8212; the film that chronicles Makoni&#8217;s efforts to empower women in a country ravaged by disease, poverty, corruption, and civil rights abuses. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A STORY OF HEALING, THE LONG WAY HOME: Oscar&#8217;s Docs</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/story-of-healing-the-long-way-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two 1997 Oscar-winning documentaries, Donna Dewey&#8217;s A Story of Healing (right) and Mark Jonathan Harris&#8216; The  Long Way Home, will be screened as  the final installment of “Oscar’s Docs, Part Four: Academy  Award-Winning Documentaries 1988–1997” on Monday, November 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Linwood Dunn Theater in  Hollywood.
The documentary  short subject A Story of Healing follows American plastic surgeons  and nurses who have volunteered to help disfigured children and young  adults in Vietnam.  The screening will be followed by an onstage  discussion with  producer-director Donna Dewey.
The  documentary feature The  Long Way Home focuses on the years between the liberation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2009: 15 Documentary Semi-Finalists</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2009-15-documentary-semi-finalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that  15 films in the Documentary Feature category will move forward in the voting  process for the 81st Academy Awards. A record 94 films had  originally qualified in the category. 
The 15 films are (in alphabetical order):

At the Death House Door
    The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
    Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
    Encounters at the End of the World
    Fuel
    The Garden
    Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
    I.O.U.S.A.
    In a Dream
    Made in America
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US: Q&amp;A with Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/until-the-light-takes-us-aites-ewell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell&#8217;s Until the Light Takes Us was one of the most unusual entries at the 2008 AFI FEST held in Los Angeles in early November. In the words of co-director  Ewell, the film is &#34;a feature length documentary chronicling  the history, ideology and aesthetic of Norwegian black metal &#8212; a  musical subculture infamous as much for a series of murders and church  arsons as it is for its unique musical and visual aesthetics. This is  the first (and only) film to truly shed light on a movement that has  heretofore been shrouded in darkness and rumor and obscured by  inaccurate and shallow depictions.&#34;
I&#8217;d never heard of Norwegian black metal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS, ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED: Oscar&#8217;s Docs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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One film historian friend once (half-)jokingly suggested that the Academy should have a special Oscar category for Holocaust documentaries, as those seem to get nominated &#8212; and to win &#8212; an inordinate number of times. Two  such documentaries, the 1995 Oscar-winners One Survivor Remembers and Anne Frank Remembered, will be screened as part of the series &#8220;Oscar&#8217;s Docs, Part Four: Academy  Award-Winning Documentaries 1988&#8211;1997&#8221; at 7:30  p.m. on Monday, November 10, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; Linwood Dunn  Theater in Hollywood. 
In the  39-minute (longish) documentary short subject One Survivor Remembers, which was co-produced by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Research Institute, Holocaust survivor  Gerda Weissmann Klein describes her six [...]]]></description>
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