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SF360: Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre on film, factories, and border life after NAFTA

From the '60s to the '90s, the city of Tijuana quadrupled its size, but those were, apparently, the slow years. Says Vicky Funari, co-director of "Maquilapolis" (opening this Thursday at the MadCat Women's International Film Festival), when the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect, in 1994, the border city's growth moved at a whole new pace. "By 2000," she wrote to SF360, "there were 4,000 maquiladoras in Mexico employing 1.3 million people." The result? The city's infrastructure had no ability to provide the basic services required by so many who'd moved to the area to work for low wages, in horrific conditions within an environm...

idle chatter: "jesus camp" backlash?

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H'Wood Reporter: WWII filmmakers press for French policy change

The talents behind "Days of Glory," a World War II drama that recounts the sacrifice made by frontline troops from Africa in the rollback of the Nazis, hope their movie will help influence French policy toward veterans from the nation's former colonies. Director-producer Rachid Bouchareb recently sc...

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TORONTO: Fest '06 Wrapup

NYT Shifts NYFF Coverage Plans

In a move that has some movie marketers breathing a sigh of relief and leave others disappointed, the longtime tradition of the New York Times reviewing each New York Film Festival movie with a full review has ended. Starting this year, the paper plans to write about titles with coverage more in keeping with how it tackles other fests. Yesterday, Movie City News clarified an earlier report with additional details on the new plans at the Times. Meanwhile, today's Variety weighed in with an article. As new NYC film beat reporter Steven Zeitchik reports today in Variety:It will still cover the festival, through feature coverage and a greater num...

The Top Ten So Far...

Each week, indieWIRE receives the final weekend numbers for specialty releases in theaters. This is our top ten for the three day weekend so far, with most numbers already in. The top ten is subject to change before the final chart is published tomorrow and the weekly box office column is written. W...

AFP: Spike Lee continues attack on Bush over Katrina response

American filmmaker Spike Lee continued at the Toronto Film Festival to berate US President George W. Bush over Washington's response to Hurricane Katrina, ahead of US mid-term elections in November. "This is the worst president in the history of the United States of America. He's taken us to hell in...