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  • Chris Hajian “First Position”

    Chris Hajian “First Position”

    April 21, 2012 / Composers, Dance, Documentary, Featured

    Tune in Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest composer Chris Hajian.  He will be talking about his recent project “First Position.” Follow in the inspirational footsteps of six talented ballet dancers (ages nine to nineteen) as they struggle to maintain form in the face of injury and personal sacrifice on their way to one of the most prestigious youth ballet competitions in the world. First [...]

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  • Bess Kargman “First Position”

    Bess Kargman “First Position”

    April 21, 2012 / Dance, Directors, Documentary, Featured

    Tune in Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest filmmaker Bess Kargman, director of “First Position.” Follow in the inspirational footsteps of six talented ballet dancers (ages nine to nineteen) as they struggle to maintain form in the face of injury and personal sacrifice on their way to one of the most prestigious youth ballet competitions in the world. First Position is a feature length documentary [...]

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  • P. David Ebersole & Patty Schemel HIT SO HARD: “The Life and Near-Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel”

    P. David Ebersole & Patty Schemel HIT SO HARD: “The Life and Near-Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel”

    April 14, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured, Music, Musicians, Punk

    Tune in Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests P. David Ebersole & Patty Schemel. They will be talking about the new film HIT SO HARD: “The Life and Near-Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel.”  The film is a behind-the scenes portrait of what has been dubbed the unlucky 13th Generation, told through one woman’s amazing journey. In HIT SO HARD we follow the rise and [...]

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  • Michael Tucker “Fightville”

    Michael Tucker “Fightville”

    April 9, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

    Tune in Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Michael Tucker. He will be talking about making the film “Fightville.” Over the last decade, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has grown from a controversial no-holds-barred gladiatorial sideshow into a billion dollar phenomenon. MMA has eclipsed boxing as the dominant combat sport in the world, and is so popular that MMA fights regularly appear on U.S. network television [...]

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  • Marc H. Simon “Unraveled”

    Marc H. Simon “Unraveled”

    April 7, 2012 / Documentary, Featured

    Tune in Tuesday, April 10, 2012 as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Marc H. Simon. He will be talking about making the film “Unraveled.” Unraveled tells a modern day tragedy of ambition gone astray — it is the compelling uction left behind. Just days before Bernard Madoff captured the nation’s attention as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud [...]

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  • Leon Gast “When We Were Kings”

    Leon Gast “When We Were Kings”

    April 7, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

    Tune in Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring an interview with Leon Gast. He will be talking about making the film WHEN WE WERE KINGS. The interview was originally recorded in 1996 just weeks prior to Gast receiving the Oscar for “Best Documentary.” The film has been called one of the best boxing documentaries of all time. Its main focus is “Rumble in The Jungle.” A fight [...]

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  • Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan “Raising Renee”

    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

    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

    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”

    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”

    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”

    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”

    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”

    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”

    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”

    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”

    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

    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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