we are also joined here in park city at the sundance film festival where yance just was, by joslyn barnes, who produced "strong island." she is the co-founder of louverture films. yance ford and joslyn barnes, we welcome you both to democracy now! , congratulations, you have not only been nominated for an oscar, but you have made history as the first trans director to ever be nominated by the academy. >> thank you, amy, and good morning. flabbergasted to be honest. has been a labor of love and dedication on the part of so many people, that it is an incredible recognition to be honored and be the first trans director, i believe the first african-american trance director, to be nominated for an academy award is incredibly special, too. and a coke i want to go to a video posted on twitter on tuesday as the oscar nominees were being announced. we were actually live broadcasting democracy now! here in park city, but this isow you see ford and his partner reacted to the news. >> oh, my god! oh my god! >> did they even say it? [laughter] amy: there is yance and his partner responding to being na

from the sundance film festival, where a film about supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg called has just premiered. before the film on sunday, justice ginsburg, who flew into park city, utah this weekend, was interviewed by npr's nina totenberg. a dear friend of ruth bader ginsburg. nina asked ginsburg if she had ever been sexually harassed before she became a judge. this was the supreme court justices answer. >> the answer is, yes, every woman of my vintage knows what sexual harassment is -- although, we did not have a name for it. the attitude to sexual to "getnt was simply past it. boys will be boys." well, i will give you just one example. i am taking a chemistry course at cornell, and my instructor uncertaincause i was of my ability in that field -- he said, "i will give you a practice exam." so he gave me a practice exam. the next day on the test, the test is the practice exam. and i know exactly what he wanted in return. and that isust one of many examples. this was not considered anything you could do something about, that the locket help you do something about -- that t

i spoke this week here at the sundance film festival with filmmaker peter kunhardt, as well as two of film's executive producers -- the writer trey ellis and pulitzer prize-winning historian taylor branch, who wrote the "america in the king years" trilogy. the film premiered here at the sundance film festival. i asked trey ellis to talk about kingsport people campaign. >> so after the coming out against the war in vietnam and he is really at his lowest point, some people might say, you deserve it. if you want to be taken over riverside church and live in the upper west side of manhattan, you deserve it, right? fightd, no, he wanted to longer. the first interview i did was with mary and elven. she said when she visited the poor in mississippi when bobby kennedy and bobby kennedy said to her, tell king to bring the port to washington, which goes to taylor's point about having the public/private, help governance works best, how king and lbj could work together, when she brought that message to king, she goes into his office and he is very sad. she tells him this idea from bobby kennedy a

this is our first day of our weeklong broadcast from the sundance film festival herere in park city,yutah. one of the m most talked about documentaries here at the sundance film festival looks at the groundbreaking life of the nearly 85-year-old supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. 2011 marks her 25th year on the court, and she has no plans to retire. justice ginsburg first gained fame in the 1970's when she co-founded the women's rights project at the american civil liberties union where she argued six gender discrimination cases before the supreme court. when president bill clinton nominated her in 1993, he compared her to another pioneering attorney and judge who went on to become a supreme court justice. >> many admirers of her work say that she is to the women's movement what former supreme court justice ththurgood marshal wawas to thehe movement of the rights of african-americans. amy: in recent years, justice ginsburg's public profile has soared as the court has swerved to the right. ginsburg often now finds herself on the dissenting side of opinions. in 2013, she wrote a

it's very important to discuss the significance of indigenous films participation at the sundance film festival and of course this being one of them there actually eight indigenous led films here this year but i want to show this week from the redford center because this happened at the premier on wednesday reppert center rights we'd like to share this moving scene from yesterday from yesterday's film premiere when standing rock water protectors featured in the film joined the filmmakers onstage in song have a listen. to her. they write thank you to water protectors everywhere for enjoying these fights and filling us all with hope cody what did that moment mean for you. right there we all walked up on stage and. it was. to be filming all these water protectors and living with them and fighting with them and to be able to show this movie to them for the first time and bring them up on stage so it's not just me during the q. and a we're actually opening up to the audience who can ask any any one of them question that they want to know i think. because because i did what i set out to do and i'm ab

that was the news coming up next the stream goes live to the sundance film festival i'll be back in about twenty five minutes for the number. of new stuff. ok and you are in the stream where we are continuing our week of special shows from the sundance film festival today how syrian refugee settling into the united states in just a few minutes will be crossing over to my co-host of allow but he. is one of my favorite films of the bar so i'm looking forward to this conversation because in park city in just a moment but first here's a little preview of this is how to have a look. at. where you from from iraq. to know. where you're from reform. afghanistan where you're from reform. syria. over baltimore. because. this is home is about four syrian refugee families who have been resettled in baltimore maryland. and they are starting over when you go to a grocery. store. i would. say oh you're in quotes but there may be. a game back and a good for another series but all are clear on this story. that's why the international rescue committee is the place where we met all of these subjects but now

we are broadcasting from park city, utah, at the sundance film festival. musician common is aiming to win his second academy award for best song. this time for "stand up for something" from the film "marshall" about thurgood marshall. common is also starring in "the tale," a film about child sexual abuse. well, on saturday, common appeared at the respect rally here in park city and shared a couple of verses from one of his songs. >> the day women took over, let it continue now women get paid as much as men do dr. angelou's lookin' from heaven's window tellin' young girls phenomenal woman is in you body is a temple, men don't pray mother earth's arms around you sayin' it's okay toilet sts down, that's a no-brainer monuments in washington of fanny lou hamer amy: after common addressed the crowd in the snowstorm in park city, i caught up with him next to the stage and asked him about his thoughts on president trump i try not to pay attention to a lot of ignorant comments and things. it just fueled me more to know we got to keep spreading the love and empowerin

i'm going to have more news for you in half an hour stay tuned for the scream live from the sundance film festival in half by. ok and you are in the stream today the stream at sundance we are kicking off a special series of shows from film festival in park city utah with a look at the documentary kyle ash so grab some popcorn i enjoy i shall. make a i gave. them a really. personally. the international labor organization estimates that there are one hundred fifty two million child slaves with half of those children working in hazardous conditions this sobering statistic is a reminder of the real price of consumer goods around the world it's also one of the scenes in the documentary film kai lash opening at this year's sundance film festival the movie tells the story of nobel peace prize winner kai last at the r.t. was on a mission to end child slavery in india my co-host make a bailout joins us live from the festival in park city utah with more i don't really care. hi femi you're right i am here in park city who are at the sundance film festival been on more than thirty years and i'm on main street

well, a new hbo documentary out king''s st yearsasas jus premiered here the sundance film festival. it is titled "king in the wilderness." it will air on hbo in april. i had a chance to sit down this week with the film's director, longtime documentary filmmaker peter kunhardt, as well as two of the film's executive producers -- the wririter trey ellis and pulitzer prize-winning historian taylor branch, who wrote "the america in the king years" trilogy. i began by asking peter kunhardt about why he named the film king -- "king in the wilderness." >> we came up with the title in the editing of the film. it was based on the fact that we were overcome by the fact that king was struggling in every possible way during those last three years, trying to f find hs way as he branched away or in addition to his work on racism to work on poverty, to work on moving -- moving to the northern cities and to oppose the war in vietnam. his support that he had enjoyed all during the early part of the civil rights movement vanished. he was left with no roadmap. he felt his friends abandon him. and he wa

also featured in the film you saw him just the ed just a second or two ago and over at the sundance film festival. let me here in park city i'm joined by the executive producer of. jordan welcome to the stream your highness thank you for being here this film was your brainchild where did the idea and why is this different than any other film about syria and. it's different because. it's in my d.n.a. so it was natural for me to be in. it but since this crisis has been unbelievably. there is something we need to do to reach the people. we needed more. maybe the vision. we can see that. maybe we. came up with. are you reading the newspaper. so we discussed it on the. she said. the friend. who you will hear from alexandra in just a bit but before we let you go what's one takeaway that you want people to leave with when they see this and then go home to their community. i want them to take. a different movement they're going to the feast of any decent human being's life and so we must. be compassionate be patient. listen to them and see if you like good so that you can spread the word to the community

sundance film festival in park city, utah. the 2018 academy award nominations mark a historic yance ford became the first first. trans director to be nominated for an academy award. his film "strong island" is up for best documentary. ford is african-american, chronicling what happened to his own family after his brother was shot dead by a white man in long island, new york, in 1992. the killer was questioned by police, but never charged. this is the trailer to the film. stumbled out of the garagee and ininto the yarard. >> i said toto the officer, whee is my son? i want to be with my son. >> you lie on the grnd, buet throh h your heart andnow you willever seeour sists agn, your mother, your father. that was the beginning. >> did noteel that t were

hi femi you're right i am here in park city who are at the sundance film festival been on more than thirty years and i'm on main street really this is the heart of the festival and of course i am joined by two people who are very integral to today's discussion who as you mentioned he and his team have helped rescue more than eighty five thousand children from child slavery but he says that's not enough and his mission is to put an end to global child slavery so here to discuss his quest and the documentary we are speaking with. you can join us here go and derek dineen welcome to the stream and gentlemen it's so good to have you so this film opens pretty caringly with a very dramatic intro scene that takes us right to the heart of the action and operation and we're with you doing i'm going to show it to our audience in just a minute but describe what they're about. to see. the holes to. try. to keep. it also going to see all children so. that doesn't seem to change the world but they're also going to see that china is going to be willing to see the. burn to see my dissolve that i'm going to

we are broadcasting from park city, utah, the sundance film festival. st night, we saw an astounding film, its world premier, "the devil we know." it looks how residents in west virginia fought dupont to expose the dangers of a chemical called teflon,is used to make nonstick vice pres. pence: and other household items. our guest today came in for this film and have bebeen engaged ina battle for decades. bucky bailey' is mom worked in the teflon division of the dupont plant and was virginia when she was p pregnant.t. he was born with only one nostril and a deformed i and is undergone at least every surgeries to fix his birth affects. he is now in his 40's. was a schoolteacher and parkersburg, west virginia, who suffered from liver disease. and rob bilott is the renowned attorney that brought dupont to court and to its knees. as we continue this story, rob bilott, can you talk about dupont's in-house lawyer in the depositions that you took when your client, wilbur tenet, the farmer who took the video of his dying cows, they saw they had a problem on their

the thirty fifth annual sundance film festival is underway in park city in the u.s. state of utah at the wells leading so case for independent films this is event has been overshadowed by the industry's recent scandals of a sexual misconduct reports. this year's sundance film festival comes at a moment of cultural change one of the main topics of discussion the fallout from the harvey weinstein sexual misconduct scandal the rise of the me too movement and the demands for more representation by women in the film industry is kind of a tipping point because it's changing the order of things so that women are going to have a stronger voice and i think the role for women to be able to step forward and exercise their voices more and more i think is a really wonderful thing and i think the rule for men right now would be to listen about one third of the nearly two hundred films presented here this year are by women directors including holiday a film shot in turkey whose swedish director says women everywhere are fed up with keeping secrets as an artist i hate censorship and

industry reports from park city movie the conversation here in park city utah during the sundance film festival is all about films but this year another topic has really dominated the conversation and that is the sexual misconduct scandal that broke involving our producer harvey weinstein back in october and has morphed into a industry wide affair also enveloping other industries of course including journalism and and others but here in sundance today the the founder of the festival robert redford the veteran actor said that he believes this is a tipping point women will now gain more say more of a voice in the film industry and that men will have to sit back and listen other people we've been talking to here including female film directors from all around the world say that they believe that the meet to movement has ignited a sweeping change perhaps a tipping point but some are not so sure everyone agrees it will take a much longer period of time months perhaps years perhaps even a generation before the male dominance and the corruption of power for sexual gratification can be effectively elim

reports from park city in utah where american‘s foremost showcase for independent cinema, the sundance film festivallose this weekend. hello, and welcome to our look back at this year's sundance film festival in park city, utah. in today's programme, highlights from this 11—day independent film extravaganza. sundance belonged to women this year, with numerous films by them and about them. women in independent film were speaking out. the #metoo and #timesup movement were major talking points. there has been hurt and suffering. people will not stand for that anymore. also, the festival premiere of a live documentary which told the history of the famous kronos quartet, and more. and the festival film, our new president, looked at how russian youtube and tv channels covered the 2016 us presidential election. donald trump. also, the intense month—long protest over the dakota access pipeline protest examined in a documentary, the battle of standing rock. all that and more in this special sundance edition of talking movies. an activist spirit was evident at sundance this year. people came together to prote

reports from park city in utah where american‘s foremost showcase for independent cinema, the sundance film festivalweekend. hello and welcome to our look back at this year's sundance film festival. highlights from this 11 day independent film extravaganza. sundance belonged to women this year with numerous films about them and buy them. the meat to an times up movement were major talking points. —— me too. also, the festival premiere of a live which told the history of the famous quartet and more. and the festivalfilm our new president looks at how russian youtube and tv channels covered deep residential collection. also, the intense month long protest over the da kota intense month long protest over the dakota access pipeline bully examined ina dakota access pipeline bully examined in a documentary. all but an more in this special sundance addition of talking movies. an activist spirit was evident this year. people came together to protest sexual harassment and assault of women in the film industry. the —— me too movement prompted much discussion. there was an anniversary rally of the women's marc

at this year's sundance film festival, russian coverage of the u.s.election occupies the big screen. zealand's prime minister has announced she is expecting a baby. she took office in october and is only the second world leader to have a baby in office. it follows a public outcry about sexism last summer when she became party leader and was asked in a success in media interviews whether she would take maternity leave if she fell pregnant while leading the country. phil mercer reports. new zealand's youngest prime minister since 1856 is about to face a fresh challenge. areand her partner expecting their first child in june, after which she plans to take a six-week break. she found out about her pregnancy in october, six days before she became prime minister. long you cannly so say you would eating too much christmas pie. >> i was showing for about 12 weeks. [laughter] >> eventually we thought it is as good a time as any. phil: 37, she says she plans to mom, and is confident she can juggle the role of motherhood with a high-profile day job. >> i'm not t

amy: from park city, utah, at the sundance film festival, this is democracy now! >> you have come through the snow, freezing rain to stand up and why have we come here today? we have come here for respect for women, for equal rights for all of our daughters, for our mothers, sisters, and our aunts. this entire year has been the winter of our discontent.

did not allow for a fair contest that's over now the stream is next coming live from the sundance film festival in the united states i'll see you after that. and you're in the stream today as part of aspect from the sundance film festival you'll meet some brilliant young mind set to change the world their stories are part of a new documentary science fair. i recall i live from prague to utah with the film's director a documentary about him from around the world in their quest to win the intel international science and engineering where. the winner in the category of medicine . those youngsters you just saw are real scientists today science fairs teens are making stethoscopes powered by artificial intelligence and researching cures for the sake of virus the documentary science fair showcases these remarkable students and their endeavors at a time when scientific fact is being challenged around the globe the thought also raises the question of how to nurture young people with extraordinary talents joining us to talk about this in brooklyn south dakota raman she's one of the young scientists featu

papa new guinea sits on the pacific ring of fire an area of intense seismic activity now the sundance film festival is the world's leading showcase for independent films and it's underway in the u.s. filmmakers around the world use this festival as a platform to tackle difficult subjects ranging from political leadership the environment and the human condition well brunell's looked at some of this year's films. at a time of rising nationalism and rising oceans. almost unchecked capitalism and individual isolation the films at sundance reflect the arrow we live. by the. new president is a film about the election of donald trump as u.s. president told entirely through excerpts from russian television reports and clips from russian social media. timeshare is a mexican movie about luxury resort workers and wealthy guests caught up in a corporate conspiracy that the horrific comedy stephanie speaks about like globalization and just like cat savage capitalism it's you know a critique on what we think you know we need to be happy filmmakers sebastian hoffman reflects on how mexican media views trump who c

sundance film festival is casting a critical eye on global issues. hello there we've had some very heavy snow over parts of europe recently it's been you. rain where we've seen some of the worst of it over the last day or so these pictures are from kiev show the heavy snow there it did disrupt traffic and also brought down some power lines as well leading to blackouts now the system responsible that's heading off towards the east now but we've got this other weather system that's galloping down towards the southeast corner and this whole region is going to be pretty messy as we head through the next day or so so expect heavy rain expect some snow on the northern edge and expect some strong winds as well meanwhile another weather system is working its way in from the atlantic that's giving us some heavy rain and some snow but it's fizzling out as we head through into tuesday barely anything really left to it there for tuesday instead it's just staying fairly unsettled in the northwest as well as being unsettled though it's also rather moderate about l

that was the news coming up next the stream goes live to the sundance film festival i'll be back in about twenty five minutes with another quick bulletin of news. and for me ok and you are in the stream where we are continuing our week of special shows from the sundance film festival today how the syrian refugee settling into the united states.

and we're at the sundance film festival which is this year overshadowed by sex scandals in hollywood. the u.s. government has officially shut down a senate vote to fund federal agencies until next month fail just a short time ago essential offices and services will now remain open and republicans and democrats are pointing the finger at each other as he called a reports from washington. this is not the anniversary any leader wants to have it was exactly one year ago when donald trump made this promise and became president. we will face challenges we will confront hardships but we will get the job done he vowed government would work again it's clear with this it isn't republicans who control the congress and the white house lost four of their own members but picked up five democrats still not enough to pass the bill that means many nonessential government employees won't be coming to work on monday without a deal although most essential federal services will continue the employees just won't get paid until it's over it came down to this a program that was in place to protect children b

did not allow for a fair contest that's over now the stream is next coming live from the sundance film festival in the united states i'll see you after that. and you're in the stream today as part of aspect from the sundance film festival. mind set to change the world their stories are part of a new documentary.

now the thirty fifth annual sundance film festival is underway in park city in the u.s. state of utah it's the world's leading showcase for independent film but this is event has been overshadowed by the industry's recent scandals over sexual misconduct while brown's reports. this year's sundance film festival comes at a moment of cultural change one of the main topics of discussion the fallout from the harvey weinstein's sexual misconduct scandal the rise of the me too movement and the demands for more representation by women in the film industry is kind of a tipping point because it's changing the order of things so that women are going to have a stronger voice and i think the role for women to be able to step forward and exercise their voices more and more i think is a really wonderful thing and i think the role for men right now would be to listen about one third of the nearly two hundred films presented here this year are by women directors including holiday a film shot in turkey whose swedish director says women everywhere are fed up with keeping secrets as an arti

mouli the conversation here in park city utah during the sundance film festival is all about films but this year another topic has really dominated the conversation and that is the sexual misconduct scandal that broke involving our producer harvey weinstein back in october and has morphed into a industry wide affair also enveloping other industries of course including journalism and and others but here in sundance today the. founder of the festival robert redford the veteran actor said that he believes this is a tipping point women will now gain more say more of a voice in the film industry and that men will have to sit back and listen other people we've been talking to here including female film directors from all around the world say that they believe that the mitsu movement has ignited a sweeping change perhaps a tipping point but some are not so sure everyone agrees it will take a much longer period of time months perhaps years perhaps even a generation before the male dominance and the corruption of power for sexual gratification can be effectively eliminated and it's time for the

she spoke at the sundance film festival. she said while she was a student in the 1950s, a chemistry felter gave her practice exam that turned out to be the same as the real exam, she knew with the professor wanted in return and confronted him. she said for so long women were silent about harassment but now, she says that the law is on their side.>>> a bipartisan deal ended the government shutdown today. but it only provided funding for three more weeks. >> they voted no on the deal. it is a new fight over a border wall. here is more on the details. >> both sides blamed the other, but the message today, it was that they were moving on. >> reporter: congress ended the government shutdown by passing a three-week budget extension. >> president trump quickly signed the temporary spending bill. the compromise was brokered by a bipartisan group of 25 moderate senators, the common sense coalition that met through the weekend. mitch mcconnell promised that he would allow a vote on a bill to protect daca youths. >> this immigration de

amy: from park city, utah, at the sundance film festival, this is democracy now! thate president has argued he has legal immunity as president of the united states. in response, of course, we argued that issue has been decided in the case of paula jones versus president clinton, were in the united states of print court said that no man is above the law, including the president of the united states

this is sundance film festival gets underway today in the u.s. state of the uto it's america's largest independent film festival filmmakers from all over the world and gathering with the latest to projects robin merrill from michael to desk is he well you're here rather than bad. i wish that's what's what's special about this was and i mean it is purely independent films although this is being misconstrued a bit because people saw hollywood very much sort of interested in sundance in the ninety's but that was because of quentin tarantino because his independent film reservoir dogs was probably had as was pop fiction they both went on to be sold to weinstein actually made yeah made made billions it millions if not billions and then hollywood sort of went to sundance to look for the next pulp fiction of fiction i should sense that the fishing. in the last ten years though the organizers of trying to rein in hollywood influence the festival started by the way back in one thousand nine hundred yangtze with local resident robert redford sort of frontin

and that's all the sport is back to merriam in london now lee thanks very much peter our sundance film festival is the world's leading showcase for independent films and it's underway in the us filmmakers around the world use the festival as a platform to tackle difficult subjects ranging from political leadership environment and the human condition rob reynolds looked at some of this year's founds. at a time of rising nationalism and rising oceans. almost unchecked capitalism and individual isolation the films at sundance reflect the arrow we live in a. new president is a film about the election of donald trump as u.s. president told entirely through excerpts from russian television reports and clips from russian social media. timeshares a mexican movie about luxury resort. guests caught up in a corporate conspiracy at the horrific comedy stephanie speaks about like globalization and just like cat savage capitalism it's you know a critique on what we think you know we need to be happy filmmaker sebastian hoffman reflects on how mexican media views trump who called immigrants from his country r