I have just learned I won the Best First Time Filmmaker Award at the London New Wave Film Festival. This
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I have just learned that The Blinding Sea has been made an Official Selection at the London New Wave Film
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I love the expression “out of the blue.” This expression reminds some people of extraordinarily good luck falling out of
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The history of polar exploration a hundred and more years ago provides important lessons about the way people develop hierarchies
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Virginia Postrel has written the best book I know on glamour. I occasionally exchanged emails with her while making The
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In presenting The Blinding Sea to audiences in Canada, the United States, Britain and France, I mention one of the
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In The Blinding Sea, I combine different kinds of historical memory: oral and written traditions, artifacts, medical evidence, oil paintings,
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As a medical doctor from Brooklyn, Frederick Cook saved the Belgica officers and crew in 1898-99, by treating their scurvy
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I have written a few blogs recently about the way Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen spent two years doing an
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Of course, a film goes beyond words. Dialogue, interviews, narration, readings all have their place. But if words are a
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As I continue screening The Blinding Sea in Britain, France, Canada and the United States, I find it interesting to
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The Blinding Sea has just won the Award for Best Documentary Film at the Mountain View International Film Festival, in
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