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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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Sue Bourne “Jig”

June 8, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Sue Bourne talks about her film “Jig” Tuesday June 14, 2011 at 7PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com “Jig” is the remarkable story of the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships, held in March 2010 in Glasgow. Three thousand dancers, their families and teachers from around the globe descend upon Glasgow for one drama filled week. Clad in wigs, make up, fake tan, diamantes and dresses costing thousands of pounds they [...]

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Rick Lancaster “The Abduction of Zack Butterfield”

May 20, 2011 / Directors

Rick Lancaster the director of “The Abduction of Zack Butterfield” coming to Center Stage with Mark Gordon Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 7PM (PST) KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Rick Lancaster the director of “The Abduction of Zack Butterfield.” Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com The Abduction of Zack Butterfield Synopsis A beautiful young woman who is a murderous sexual psychopath returns from combat as a mercenary in Iraq and [...]

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Djo Tunda Wa Munga “VIVA RIVA!”

May 20, 2011 / Directors, Featured

Coming Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 7PM (PST) KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Djo Tunda Wa Munga, director of “VIVA RIVA!” Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon [...]

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Mark Wexler “How to Live Forever”

May 15, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Coming Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 7PM (PST) KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Mark Wexler the director of “How to Live Forever.” Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack LaLanne have all the answers, [...]

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Mary McDonagh Murphy “Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’”

May 7, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Coming Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 7PM (PST) KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Mary McDonagh Murphy the director of “Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird.” Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Fifty years after winning the Pulitzer Prize, “To Kill a Mockingbird” remains a beloved bestseller and quite possibly the most influential American novel of the 20th Century. “Hey, Boo” explores the “To Kill a Mockingbird” phenomenon [...]

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Jan Nickma “Echoes of Creation”

May 1, 2011 / Directors, Documentary

Tune in Tuesday, May 3rd at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Jan Nickman. He will be talking about his film “Echoes of Creation.” “Echoes of Creation” is a revolutionary new program by Emmy Award winning director Jan Nickman, that goes beyond the discussion about the natural world and into an experience with it. Immerse yourself into nature like never before. Feel the mystery of an aurora borealis, hear the wisdom [...]

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Justin Chadwick “The First Grader”

April 28, 2011 / Directors

Coming Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 7PM (PST) KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Justin Chadwick the director of “The First Grader.” Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com In a small, remote mountain top primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the [...]

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Michel Negroponte “I’m Dangerous With Love”

April 11, 2011 / Directors, Documentary

Tune in Tuesday April 12th as KXLU Los Angeles presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Michel Negroponte. He will be talking about the film “I’m Dangerous With Love.” “I’m Dangerous With Love” is about addiction and rehabilitation, activism and shamanism. Dimitri Mugianis who starts out as the heavily addicted front man for the band Leisure Class ends his long drug and alcohol addiction with an experimental treatment that uses the hallucinogen ibogaine. African shamans have used ibogaine [...]

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Josh Stolberg “Conception”

April 4, 2011 / Directors, Writers

Tune in Tuesday April 19th as KXLU Los Angeles presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Josh Stolberg. He will be talking about his film “Conception.” “Conception” is a sexy romantic comedy that follows nine couples in different stages of their relationships on the night they conceive. We see a long-married couple who have recently added having sex to their chore wheel; a bickering twosome can barely stop trading barbs long enough to have passionate sex in the [...]

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Michael Sládek “Con Artist”

March 28, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Coming Tuesday March 29, 2011, KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Michael Sládek. He will be talking about his film “Con Artist.” CON ARTIST, a stylishly dark docu-comedy excavating America’s craving for fame and fortune via one of its most outrageous addicts. Once a legitimate art star in the 1980′s New York scene, millionaire “business artist” Mark Kostabi hires others to conceive and create paintings which he openly signs and sells as his [...]

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Michael Webber “The Elephant in the Living Room”

March 25, 2011 / Directors, Documentary

Michael Webber came Center Stage with Mark Gordon to talk about his film “The Elephant in the Living Room.” “The Elephant in the Living Room” is an award winning documentary about the controversial subculture of raising the deadliest animals on earth as common household pets. Director Michael Webber follows the journey of two men at the heart of the issue. One, Tim Harrison, an Ohio police officer whose friend was killed by his exotic pet, and the other, Terry Brumfield, [...]

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Will Canon “Brotherhood”

March 14, 2011 / Directors, Writers

Will Canon came Center Stage with Mark Gordon to talk about his film “Brotherhood.” In “Brotherhood,” a college fraternity thriller, Adam Buckley finds himself having to rob a convenience store on the last night of pledging a college fraternity. But when the initiation goes horribly wrong, and every subsequent move proves disastrous, Adam must make a stand to save his friends life and determine where he pledges his allegiance. Audience Award Winner at SXSX 2010.

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Eli Roth “HOSTEL 2″

March 14, 2011 / Directors, Writers

Eli Roth came Center Stage with Mark Gordon to talk about his film HOSTEL 2. The film follows three American female college students who fall prey to a sadistic group of business men who bid on the opportunity to act out their darkest fantasy, torture and murder. I spoke with Roth from his hotel in New York. The clip you will see features stills from the film. The interview was recorded on Tuesday, June 5, 2007

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