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New York, NY, USA - If ever a movie was made for personal reasons, it's director Salvador Litvak's "When Do We Eat?" Detailing a raucous and outrageous Seder that includes a battling Israeli, a father on ecstasy (or so he thinks), a suddenly observant neo-Hassid son and a lesbian daughter with her African-American lover, the film pokes fun at family and lavishes affection on it at the same time. Born in Santiago, Chile, Litvak moved to New York at age five, growing up as a gangly Jewtino redhead who majored in English and graduated with honors from Harvard College. Though he became a lawyer, his heart was in writing and filmmaking, so he decided that "When Do We Eat?" (reflecting his Jewish background and love of family), would make and ideal debut. ... READ MORE
East London, SOUTH AFRICA - My love of watery and mountainous landscapes goes back to my boyhood in Zingquthu, my father's rural home where I grew up until I was 9 years old. The whole province of Eastern Cape is scenic in South Africa, the testimony to which are numerous Frontier Wars (British vs Xhosas) during the ninetieth century when the British encroached over the land. I'm glad to report that our present government is on target to provide water for every household before 2012, something the apartheid regime didn't have the political will to do in its lifetime. When I visited Zingquthu, after close to two decades, two years ago it came as a shock to me how much the physical landscape had been transformed. Most rivers were either dead or dying. I just didn't understand that climatic changes could be so drastic as to cause so many rivers to dry up over such a short space of time. I was told the problem was not only climatic changes but also cuts made to alter the course of rivers, draining marshes and moors, gravity dams and harbours, and all such stuff associated with industrial revolution. ... READ MORE |
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