Chernobyl 25th & Syrian democracy
Here’s a quick round-up of some diva-related media: The democracy movement is going off in Syria and you might want to check out Holly’s new Syria program - just released from Globe Trekker. Check out...
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Hanna Zavorotnya: Chernobyl babushka
Hanna, 78, who lives in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone, is featured in this month’s MORE magazine. Our friend on the ground, Sergei Ivanchuk, dropped by to show her the story. “The main thing is that we...
View ArticleBangladesh, Bangladesh
"Bangladesh, Bangladesh, where so many people are dying fast, and it sure looks like a mess, I’ve never seen such distress,’’ crooned George Harrison in 1971, but forty years later there’s a different...
View ArticleFollow the feeds….
Many of the women featured in our doc series are too deep in the trenches to Tweet, others are living in Arab Spring-ish countries and Tweeting under pseudonyms, and still others embrace the tech under...
View ArticleOccupy for integrity
Kiran Bedi, the rabble rousing Indian top cop and anti-corruption guru who we featured in Adventure Divas: India, makes the opinion pages of yesterday’s New York Times. Check out her comments on the...
View ArticleApne Aap carries on
Today a quick shout out the indomitable Ruchira Gupta and Apne Aaap who have been working to end sex trafficking for more than a decade. When we interviewed Ruchira for Adventure Divas- India she said...
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Filming in Ukraine
Tomorrow we head out to Kiev - and then onto Chernobyl, for several days filming “The Babushkas of Chernobyl” in the Exclusion Zone. This month marks the 26th anniversary of the accident and we’re...
View ArticleYear of the Babushka?
Second place in Eurovision! Not bad for a group of Russian grandmothers. Just another indication that this is indeed The Year of the Babushka. Given our current obsession with a particular set of...
View ArticleHalf the Sky makes it to the little screen…
Okay folks, you might want to program your DVR-s to catch the tv version of Half the Sky. Here’s what PBS has to say about the programming airing Oct 1 & 2, 8 - 10 pm: “Half the Sky: Turning...
View ArticlePrincipal photography completed!
Thanks to all of you who supported the Babushkas of Chernobyl project through our hugely successful Kickstarter campaign. The funds raised allowed us to return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day
A very happy International Women’s Day to all you adventure divas out there. In the final pages of Adventure Divas , the book, I wrote about exploring cultures through the eyes of people whose...
View ArticleAssata Shakur - on terrorist list?
Some years back I interviewed Assata Shakur (as part as a profile on filmmaker Gloria Rolando) for our Adventure Divas episode “Cuba: Paradox Found.” This week, to our surprise, she gets the dubious...
View ArticleBabushkas & WMM - the latest
We’ve been getting a lot of queries at AD.com regarding our doc-in-progress, “The Babushkas of Chernobyl” - so it seems an update is in order. We’ve finished filming and are in post-production now;...
View ArticleTED talk live!
Quick heads up to those of you following the progress of our documentary “The Babushkas of Chernobyl.” Holly Morris’ TED talk on the topic goes up today. @babushkasfilm and...
View ArticleEat, Pray, Babushkas
Babushkas & Crones & Stalkers....oh my. For all of you asking about the status of the Babushkas of Chernobyl, here is a quickie update: We’re thrilled to have finished the film and look forward...
View ArticleThe Babushkas of Chernobyl World Premiere
Hey all - The Babushkas of Chernobyl, the documentary based on Holly’s article and the subject of her TED Talk, will be premiering a the Lost Angeles Film Festival in June!...
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