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Variety paywall, 'This is It' Trailer, 'Life' is Dead and more.

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So, Americans elected its first African-American president. Time to ring in a "post-racial" New World Order? Time for a new chapter in ethnic documentary? Who better to ask than the man behind one of America's biggest ethnic film festivals? "We've already been around the block a couple of times with that," says Abraham Ferrer, wryly. Ferrer is the co-director of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and is just one of many projects run by one of California's oldest and most ambitious media arts centers: Visual Communications (VC; www

Click to article featuring Michael Moore and Overture Films CEO Chris McGurk

'Capitalism: A Love Story" opens in LA and NY.

Last December, A Walk to Beautiful won the IDA Award for Best Feature Documentary. Directed by Mary Olive Smith and co-directed by Amy Bucher, Walk chronicles the stories of five Ethiopian women who suffer from devastating childbirth injuries, and their subsequent healing journeys at the obstetric Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, where remarkable doctors devote their lives to repairing these women's bodies and hearts. Obstetric fistula is a rupture that develops between the vagina and the bladder, and sometimes between the vagina and the rectum during obstructed labor. According to UN figures

$500,000 to Maker of 'Iraq in Fragments,' 'Sari's Mother'

HBO earns two for 'Taxi to the Dark Side'

A review of Patricia Aufderheide's 'Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction'

Doc about annual dolphin hunt in Taij will show.