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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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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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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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Omar Fadel “The United”

July 24, 2011 / Composers, Featured, Foreign Film

Omar Fadel talks about writing music for the film “The United” Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Omar Fadel recently finished composing the score to a Walt Disney film called “The United” directed by Amin Matalqa and produced by Rachel Gandin. The film is amazing. And the score isn’t too shabby either It’s one of my more ambitious scores. From huge orchestral tracks, to [...]

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Austin Wintory “A Little Help”

July 19, 2011 / Composers, Featured

Austin Wintory talks about composing music for the film “A Little Help” Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 7PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Austin Wintory began his obsession with film scoring back when he was ten years old, when he discovered Jerry Goldsmith’s scores to PATTON and A PATCH OF BLUE. Now, his obsession having mutated into a career of his own, his scores can be heard in more than [...]

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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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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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