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Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan “Raising Renee”

February 21, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Tune in Tuesday, February 21, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan the creative people behind the documentary RAISING RENEE. A promise is a promise. But what if your career takes off right when your life takes over? Artist Beverly McIver was enjoying a skyrocketing career as a painter when a casual yet life-changing promise made to her mother Ethel years before – to take [...]

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Terje Carlsson ISRAEL VS. ISRAEL

February 20, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured, Political

Tune in Tuesday, February 21, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests Terje Carlsson the director of ISRAEL VS ISRAEL, A Film About Israeli Peace Activists. Terje Carlsson is a freelance journalist. He has spent almost a decade covering the Middle East for the news media including Swedish Television and Radio. He had thought about making a movie about Israel peace activists. Carlsson felt their work was very important, and [...]

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David Pomes “Cook County”

December 12, 2011 / Directors, Featured

Tune in Tuesday, December 13, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest David Pomes. He will be talking about making COOK COUNTY. The film follows three generations of meth addicts living in the piney woods of East Texas. Xander Berkeley, Anson Mount, and Ryan Donowho explode on the screen in this visceral tale about three generations of meth addicts living in the piney woods of East Texas. Living in a [...]

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Alex Stapleton “Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel”

December 12, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Tune in Tuesday, December 13, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Alex Stapleton the director of CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL. The film is a tantalizing and star-studded tribute to Roger Corman, Hollywood’s most prolific writer-director producer, and seminal influencing force in modern movie making over the last 60 years. CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL is a tantalizing and star-studded tribute to Roger Corman, Hollywood’s [...]

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Andrea Nevins “The Other F Word”

October 6, 2011 / Directors, Featured, Musicians

Tune in Tuesday, November 1st at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Andrea Nevins the director of “The Other F Word.” This revealing and touching film asks what happens when a generation’s ultimate anti-authoritarians — punk rockers — become society’s ultimate authorities — dads. With a large chorus of punk rock’s leading men – Blink-182′s Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath – THE OTHER F WORD [...]

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Lavinia Currier “OKA!”

October 6, 2011 / Directors, Featured

Tune in Tuesday, October 25th as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Lavinia Currier the director of OKA! Based on the memoir by Louis Sarno (“Last Thoughts Before Vanishing from the Face of the Earth”), OKA! is a fish-out-of-water tale of a ethnomusicologist from New Jersey who finds himself immersed in the colorful lives ofthe Bayake pygmies.Based on the memoir by ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno, who has lived with the pygmies for over 20 years, OKA! [...]

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Aaron Schock “Circo”

September 18, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Tune in Tuesday, September 20th as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Aaron Schock the director of “Circo.” Aaron Schock’s acclaimed film, which has appeared at many world festivals and is the most recent winner of the Jury Award at the Hampton’s International Film Festival, is one of the most compelling documentaries seen in years. Set in the cinematically rich milieu of a century-old traveling circus in rural Mexico, CIRCO follows the family-run “Circo [...]

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Deborah Koons Garcia “The Future of Food”

September 13, 2011 / Directors, Documentary

Deborah Koons Garcia will be talking about her documentary THE FUTURE OF FOOD. The film offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. Tune in Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Genetic engineering of food crops is as controversial today as ever, as many of [...]

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Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega “Better This World”

September 5, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega’s BETTER THIS WORLD tells a provocative and cautionary story about the shifting fault lines of civil liberties, protest and government vigilance. Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Better This World tells a provocative and cautionary story about the shifting fault lines of civil liberties, protest and government vigilance. Two boyhood friends from the heart of Texas, [...]

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Doug Pray “Art & Copy

September 5, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Doug Pray will be talking about his film ART & COPY, which looks at the world advertising and inspiration. Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com ART & COPY is a powerful film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time — people who’ve profoundly [...]

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The Polish Brothers “For Lovers Only”

August 24, 2011 / Directors, Featured

The Polish Brothers came Center Stage with Mark Gordon to discuss their latest film “For Lovers Only.” The film is a beautiful and intimate love story about a couple who meets up in Paris and lives “in” the moment. Will the romance last or will reality set in and leave the lovers to pine over love lost. Beautifully shot in and around Paris.

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Mike Galinsky & Suki Hawley “Battle for Brooklyn”

August 23, 2011 / Architecture, Directors, Documentary, Featured

Mike Galinsky and Suki Hawley discuss their film BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN, which looks at eminent domain and the impact it can have on a community. Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com In the 1950′s the Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles where they’d eventually play in their new stadium built on the remains of Chavez Ravine, a community destroyed by eminent domain after it [...]

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Vivi Friedman “The Family Tree”

August 23, 2011 / Directors, Featured

Vivi Friedman shares her thoughts on making the film THE FAMILY TREE, a comedy about guns, God and a dysfunctional family in suburban Ohio. Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Life in suburban Serenity, Ohio is never quite as serene as it appears. The dysfunctional Burnett family – Bunnie (Hope Davis), Jack (Dermot Mulroney) and their twin 17 year olds Eric (Max Thieriot) and [...]

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Nick Brandestini “Darwin”

August 23, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Nick Brandestini talks about his new documentary DARWIN, which follows the residents of an isolated community at the end of a weathered road in Death Valley, California. Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Darwin is a documentary film about an isolated community at the end of a weathered road in Death Valley, California. Propelled from society by tragic turns, the people of Darwin (population [...]

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Demian Lichtenstein “Discover the Gift”

July 29, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Demian Lichtenstein talks about his film “Discover the Gift” Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com “Discover the Gift” is the feature-length documentary that celebrates the basic but vital reality that there are gifts in each person, and in all circumstances, that are simply awaiting discovery. “Discover the Gift” offers powerful lessons from authors, educators, activists, artists, and icons including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, [...]

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Joseph Dorman “Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness”

July 29, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Joseph Dorman talks about his film “Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness” Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world [...]

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Rick Minnich “Forgetting Dad”

June 11, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Rick Minnich talks about his film “Forgetting Dad” on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Tuesday June 14, 2011 at 7PM (PST). Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com “Forgetting Dad” is a feature documentary (84 min.) written, directed and edited by German-based US filmmakers Rick Minnich and Matt Sweetwood. It tells the bizarre story of Rick’s father’s sudden and incomprehensible amnesia, which began one week after a seemingly harmless car accident in 1990. After the onset of his amnesia, [...]

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Meredith Heil “Whistlin’ Dixie: The Queer Southern Music Project”

June 8, 2011 / Directors, Featured, Music

Meredith Heil talks about her film “Whistlin’ Dixie: The Queer Southern Music Project” Tuesday June 14, 2011 at 7PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com “Whistlin’ Dixie: The Queer Southern Music Project” invites the viewer to travel along as filmmaker Meredith Heil explores America’s Southern heartland in search of queer sound. The film journeys through the region’s independent, queer lo-fi scene, tracking down the LGBTQ musicians, fans and activists that are [...]

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