Dream of a Better World
Vanessa HopeImagining a more democratic, just, and peaceful world through in‑depth conversations with filmmakers and authors about power, resistance, and hope in increasingly authoritarian times.
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| Issues | 148 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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One in a Million: “Suddenly she looks at me & says, this is freedom. And I was really shocked.” I.A. "There isn't just a binary between integrating & sticking to your culture.” J.M.
In this vHopeful conversation, I talk with Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes, directors of the extraordinary documentary One in a Million, about their decade of filming Israa and her family as they fled Syria and built a new life in Germany, and...
They’re Here: “Often the danger is what’s unseen. It’s the menace lurking off camera.” -- L.P. “It’s not about saying ‘Fuck ICE,’ it’s about saying ‘Don’t take these people away from us.’” -- R.L.M.
(Photo courtesy of Jack Califano)
In this vHopeful Conversation, I speak with Academy Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras and filmmaker and investigative journalist Rachel Lauren Mueller about their extraordinary documenta...
Remake: “I hope that it provides—maybe some solace, but actually a better word is probably companionship—to people who’ve also experienced a loss akin to what I went through with the loss of a son.”
I was honored to speak with the extraordinary filmmaker Ross McElwee about Remake, his profoundly moving new documentary built from a lifetime of footage—including material filmed by and with his late son, Adrian. In this intimate vHopeful...
The Cycle of Love: “Being emotionally vulnerable & open is strength. When you are emotionally vulnerable, it’s almost contagious, and it allows everybody around you to be emotionally vulnerable too.”
I was so moved by The Cycle of Love, the luminous new documentary from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel, director of the Oscar-winning The White Helmets, the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated Virunga, and the BIFA-winning Evel...
Everybody to Kenmure Street: “There’s clearly something larger than life that happens when people put themselves on the line for the benefit of their community.”
In this vHopeful conversation, I speak with Chilean-Belgian filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra about his exhilarating Sundance-winning documentary, Everybody to Kenmure Street, which brings us inside the extraordinary eight-hour 2021 uprising i...
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Director. Producer. Documentary & Fiction Films. INVISIBLE NATION (PBS). Co-Writer, Co-Host LOVE IS A CRIME (Vanity Fair). Writer, Host vHOPEFUL CONVERSATIONS podcast w inspiring filmmakers & authors, listen (Apple. Spotify), watch here, HopeForFilm
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