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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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2012 Oscar Nominated Shorts

February 11, 2012 / Documentary, Featured, Foreign Film, Oscar Nominated Shorts

Tune in Tuesday, February 14, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring a special look at this year’s Oscar nominated shorts. Join Mark Gordon as he talks with Hallvar Witzø, director of TUBA ATLANTIC, Enrico Casarosa will be discussing his animated film LA LUNA and producer Kira Carstensen and editor Aki Mizutani with share insight in making the powerful documentary TSUNAMI AND THE CHERRY BLOSSOM. Everybody is going to die one day. [...]

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Charles Evans Jr. & Victor DeNoble “Addiction Incorporated”

December 30, 2011 / Documentary

Tune in Tuesday, January 10, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests Charles Evans Jr. & Victor DeNoble. The will be talking about the new documentary ADDICTION INCORPORATED. SYNOPSIS: In 1994, scientist Victor DeNoble became the first whistleblower to reveal the tobacco industry’s efforts to manufacture “a maximally addictive” product. Tasked in the 1980s by a major tobacco company to invent a safer form of nicotine — one that would [...]

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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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Constance Marks “Being Elmo”

October 6, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

Tune in Tuesday, October 25th at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Constance Marks the director of “Being Elmo” Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Few people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. Displaying his creativity and talent at a young age, Kevin ultimately found a home on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi [...]

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Jennifer Fox “My Reincarnation”

October 6, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

Tune in Tuesday, October 11th as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Jennifer Fox the director of “My Reincarnation.” Filmed over twenty years by acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox (FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN), MY REINCARNATION chronicles the epic story of the high Tibetan Buddhist Master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, and his western-born son, Yeshi. The film follows Namkhai Norbu’s rise to greatness as a Buddhist teacher in the West, while his son, Yeshi, recognized [...]

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Alma Har’el “Bombay Beach”

October 6, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

Tune in Tuesday, October 18th as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Alma Har’el the director of “Bombay Beach.” ABOUT THE FILM The desolate and surreal Salton Sea in California stands as a formidable metaphor for the broken American dream. The largest lake in California, it was created when the Colorado River flooded the windswept desert, carrying the river’s entire volume into the Salton Sink over a period of approximately two years. A dam [...]

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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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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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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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Simon Kilmurry “Biblioburro: The Donkey Library”

July 19, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

Simon Kilmurry, Executive Producer of POV, talks about the film “Biblioburro: The Donkey Library” Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 7PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Carlos Rendón Zipagauta’s new documentary, “Biblioburro: The Donkey Library,” tells the story of 39-year-old Soriano and his traveling library from the point of view of the man himself and, one might say, his two hardworking burros. The film rides along with Soriano on one of [...]

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Joe Walker “Life in a Day”

July 19, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

Joe Walker talks about editing the film “Life in a Day” Tuesday July 19, 2011 at 7PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com What happens when you send a request out to the world to chronicle, via video, a single day on Earth? You get 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries. Oscar®-winning film director Kevin Macdonald’s LIFE IN A DAY is an idea borne out of a [...]

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