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Worldtown Via Londontown :: The 2010 Palestine Film Festival
May 4, 2010 – 11:15 pm | No Comment
Worldtown Via Londontown :: The 2010 Palestine Film Festival

Exile, memory, displacement, discovery - all themes you may expect associated to the Palestinian cause and embodied in corresponding creative matter. The films at this year’s London Palestine Film Fest resonate with all of these …

Worldtown Hearsay :: Complex Magazine’s Say on the 50 Most Racist Films
March 18, 2010 – 1:17 am | No Comment
Worldtown Hearsay :: Complex Magazine’s Say on the 50 Most Racist Films

Movies you watched, might not admit to watching, and probably relish watching. Sorry to ruin it…in case you hadn’t already caught on, this is a list of Hollywood’s 50 most Racist Movies Ever. The ever …

Top Five :: Essential Films of 2009
January 1, 2010 – 8:54 am | One Comment
Top Five :: Essential Films of 2009

This Is Worldtown contributor Abdullah Malik takes on the must-see films of 2009, with a mix of mainstream releases and some quieter gems, to check out in to the new year.

Compared to the juggernaut films that ruled the cinema in 2008, one couldn’t expect 2009 to top the cinema experience that last year did. But somehow, the last three hundred and sixty odd days brought with it a gamut of unmissable films. Here are the five most essential films of ‘09…

Worldtown Hearsay :: When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like “Avatar”?
December 19, 2009 – 12:27 pm | One Comment
Worldtown Hearsay :: When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like “Avatar”?

Avatar :: Though visually breathtaking the movie has many issues in basic plot and storytelling, without even the problematic narratives about the noble savage, “primitive” native cultures and the way in which colonization, white privilege and white guilt is played out.

When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like “Avatar”?
Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it’s about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.

Who’s the ‘Reel Injun’? :: at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival
October 18, 2009 – 1:27 am | No Comment
Who’s the ‘Reel Injun’? :: at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival

TORONTO - “The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is an international festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples on the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio, and new media.” Check out: ‘Tungijuq’ & ‘Reel Injun’