by JAK | Jul 28, 2016 | culture, films, music
Film festival time here and I have managed to catch a few films including “A Flickering Truth’ and “Shadow World’ which are both documentaries. ‘A Flickering Truth’ is a story about rescuing the film archive in Afghanistan made by...
by JAK | Jul 14, 2016 | culture, films
Shadow World Trailer from Louverture Films on Vimeo. The New Zealand Film Festival is coming up this week in my home city. I have picked around 10 films to go see and half of my top picks are documentaries. The Shadow World is one of them. If you are in Auckland...
by JAK | May 19, 2016 | culture, development, films, music
Sonita the movie is based on the story of Sonita Alizadeh. Sonita moved to Iran as a 10 year old from Afghanistan and started writing songs and wanting to perform as a rap artist. “After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in...
by JAK | Mar 30, 2016 | culture, films, industry futures
My most important news comes from my twitter feed where I follow newsmakers and journalists around the globe. I ignore broadcast TV especially “the news” and I despair at the mainstream daily newspapers who all seem to be trapped in the death of a thousand...
by JAK | Jan 12, 2016 | culture, films
The dawn of a New Year is popular time for resolutions and other changes in outlook. A new year is like a new start and given that it coincides with holidays in many locations – having a few days to relax often helps to renew our outlook generally. For me it is...
by JAK | Jul 16, 2015 | big ideas, culture, films, industry futures, video
Some days I want to remix everything. I’ve been like that for 40+ years (for me) and now the technology makes it easy to do.* It started with music. After a few listens to a track I always want another version. Am I a creative megalomaniac? Not really it’s...
