Our guest this week is Phil Miller, investigative journalist and staff reporter at Declassified UK. We discuss the origins of British mercenaries in recent proxy wars and the extent of government culpability in his documentary (and the book it's based on) Keenie Meenie: Britain's Private Army (2020) - available online!
We've not been bawled over by any films so we're only highlighting a couple of festivals to watch out for this week: IDFA - the Amsterdam documentary film festival, one of the biggest in the world, which will be live and online and which Film Fest Report reminded us is taking place in November; and - yet again - the Palestine Film Festival who are holding a short but very strong series of screenings on 13-26 November 2020 at the Barbican in London and online, featuring surveillance camera-based doc An Unusual Summer, Cannes hit Gaza Mon Amour, Najwa Najjar's latest offering from a consistently brilliant filmography, more from Ameen Nayfeh, Lina Alabed... so many more names that attest to the vibrancy and excellence of the Palestinian film scene.
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Top Picks is hosted by two of film programmers and social researchers behind myDylarama. We use postcolonial, afro-pessimism, and Bourdieusian theories to discuss race and class in drama, documentary, mystery, and horror films. Now in its 10th year, myDy champions independent film using the medium as a platform for underrepresented and oft-ignored voices. myDy is official partner of the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, and collaborates with The Media Fund, ByWire, and Emerging Filmmakers Night.
Abla Kandalaft, co-founder of myDylarama, is a trilingual film programmer, researcher, journalist and translator. She is passionate about economics, environmental issues, migration, and politics; and has worked with the BBC, Cannes Film Festival, and BFI. Coco Green is an aspiring academic and armchair critic. When not discussing racism in film, both on Top Picks and in the streets, she is writing about black counterpublics in hopes of completing her PhD.
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