Maziar Bahari, is an Iranian Canadian journalist, film maker and human rights activist, his memoir is the basis for Jon Stewart's film "Rosewater", released in which year?
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Maziar Bahari Maziar Bahari (Persian: مازیار بهاری‎ ‎ ; born May 25, 1967) is an Iranian Canadian journalist, film maker and human rights activist. He was a reporter for "Newsweek" from 1998 to 2011. Bahari was incarcerated by the Iranian government from June 2009 to October 20, 2009, and has written a New York Times best seller family memoir, "Then They Came for Me". His memoir is the basis for Jon Stewart's 2014 film "Rosewater". Bahari later founded the IranWire citizen journalism news site, the freedom of expression campaign Journalism Is Not A Crime and the street art and social justice project Paint the Change.
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Jon Stewart Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, writer, producer, television host, and occasional actor. He is best known for being the host of "The Daily Show", a satirical news program on Comedy Central, from 1999 to 2015.
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Valerie Mason-John Valerie Mason-John (born 22 November 1962) is the co-founder of "Eight Step Recovery - Using The Buddha’s Teaching to Overcome Addiction", an alternative to the 12 steps programs for addiction. Since the publication of the book by Windhorse Publications in 2013, it has won the Best USA Book awards 2014 and Best International book Award 2015 in the self motivational and self help category. Eight Step Meetings are now taking place in the UK, USA, Canada, India and Finland. She also is the co-creator of Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery (MBAR), which was inspired by "Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression" book by John D. Teasdale, Mark Williams, and Zindal Seagal. She is author of eight books and works as a public speaker in Mindfulness for Addiction and Emotional Well Being and is a trainer in anti-bullying and conflict resolution. She is also the chairperson of Triratna Vancouver Buddhist Centre. Her Buddhist name is Vimalasara which means she whose essence is stainless and pure. She used to be a freelance feature writer for the "Voice" Newspaper and was also a performer and spoken word poet using the stage name "Queenie". Black British by birth, she has now become a Canadian.
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A Good Year A Good Year is a 2006 British-American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott. The film stars Russell Crowe, Marion Cotillard, Didier Bourdon, Abbie Cornish, Tom Hollander, Freddie Highmore and Albert Finney. The film is loosely based on the 2004 novel of the same name by British author Peter Mayle. The film was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on October 27, 2006 and in the United States on November 10, 2006 by 20th Century Fox. The film grossed over $42.1 million against its $35 million budget. The film received nominations for the Critics Choice Award for Best Young Actor and the Satellite Award for Best Cinematography. "A Good Year" was released on DVD on February 27, 2007 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
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Hand Held (film) Hand Held is a documentary feature film about photojournalist Mike Carroll ("Boston Globe", "People", "Rolling Stone"), one of the ﬁrst photographers to travel to Romania after the fall of the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1989. When he arrived, he walked into one of the most horrific scenes of the 20th century. His photographs and heart wrenching stories of the pediatric AIDS epidemic in Romania ran in the "Boston Globe "and" New York Times" and opened the eyes of the western world to the plight of Romanian children. The film chronicles Carroll's twenty-year journey to bring aid to children in a country he hardly knew, through the organization he founded, Romanian Children's Relief (RCR).
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Viola Desmond Viola Irene Desmond (July 6, 1914 – February 7, 1965) was a Canadian Black Nova Scotian businesswoman who challenged racial segregation at a film theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1946. She refused to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre and was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between her paid and used seat. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada.
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Answer to History Answer to History (French: Réponse à l'histoire; Persian, پاسخ به تاریخ), also known as "Response to History", is a memoir written by the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, shortly after his overthrow in 1979 by Islamic revolution. The book was originally written in French and was translated into English and Persian as well as other languages, and was published posthumously in 1980.
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U2360° at the Rose Bowl U2360° at the Rose Bowl is a 2010 concert film by Irish rock band U2. It was shot on 25 October 2009 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, during the band's U2 360° Tour. The Rose Bowl concert featured a sold-out crowd of 97,014 people, breaking the US record for single concert attendance for one headline act. It was live streamed over the Internet via YouTube, and was later released on DVD and Blu-ray on 3 June 2010 in the United States, 7 June in the United Kingdom, and 8 June in Canada.
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A People Uncounted A People Uncounted is a 2011 Canadian documentary film directed by Aaron Yeger about the culture and history of the Romani people (commonly known as "gypsies") in Europe, with special emphasis on their plight during The Holocaust. The film also warns of the similarities in intolerance between the time of the Porajmos (Romani Holocaust) and the increasing intolerance and abuse of Roma rights in Europe today. It was nominated for a Producers Guild of America award in 2012. The film was featured in the New York Gipsy Festival and is part of Vanderbilt University's "Holocaust Lecture Series".
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Man of the Year (2006 film) Man of the Year is a 2006 American political comedy-drama film directed and written by Barry Levinson, produced by James G. Robinson, and starring Robin Williams. The film also features Christopher Walken, Laura Linney, Lewis Black, and Jeff Goldblum. In the film Williams portrays Tom Dobbs, the host of a comedy/political talk show, based loosely on the real-life persona of Jon Stewart. With an offhand remark, he prompts four million people to e-mail their support; then he decides to campaign for President. The film was released theatrically on October 13, 2006, and was filmed in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, and in parts of Washington, D.C. "Man of the Year" received mostly negative reviews and earned $41.2 million on a $20 million budget.
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Benjamin Ross Hayden Benjamin Ross Hayden (born 29 April 1989) is a Métis Canadian film director, writer, producer, and actor. His debut feature film, "The Northlander", was the first ever Telefilm Canada micro-budget selected for Perspective Canada program at the Cannes Film Festival, and premiered at the 40th Montreal World Film Festival in 2016. The film received a wide theatrical release in Canada during fall 2016. He is also the youngest film director in Canada to be accepted into the Telefilm micro-budget program, and from that is the only film director to ever to receive a theatrical release in Landmark Cinemas.
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Rosetta (film) Rosetta is a 1999 French-Belgian film written and directed by the Dardenne brothers. It is about a seventeen-year-old girl (played by Émilie Dequenne) who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother. Trying to survive and to escape her situation, she makes numerous attempts towards securing a job allowing her to move away from the caravan and her dysfunctional mother in order to reach a stable life.
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Guantánamo: America's War on Human Rights Guantánamo: America's War on Human Rights is a 2004 book by British investigative journalist and author David Rose.
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My Father and the Man in Black My Father and the Man in Black is a 2012 Canadian documentary film directed and produced by Jonathan Holiff about the stormy relationship between country music star Johnny Cash and the filmmaker's father, Saul Holiff, Cash's personal manager. It qualified for Oscar consideration in 2013. Holiff was inspired to produce the film when he stumbled on his father's storage locker filled with audio diaries and a large assortment of other documents relating to his time in the 1960s and 1970s as Cash's manager. The locker also included a framed gold record of "A Boy Named Sue" which went on display at the Grand Theatre during the running of their musical "Ring of Fire".
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Deep Water (film) Deep Water is a documentary film, directed by Jerry Rothwell and Louise Osmond, produced by Jonny Persey, opening in the UK on 15 December 2006. It is based on the true story of Donald Crowhurst and the 1969 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race round the world alone in a yacht.
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Black Rose (2014 film) Black Rose (Russian: Чёрная роза ) - is a 2014 cooperative American and Russian action film directed by Alexander Nevsky. The film was released on 25 January 2014 in Russia. It was made on a budget of $7,000,000.
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Sophie and the Rising Sun (film) Sophie and the Rising Sun is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Maggie Greenwald. It is based on the 2001 novel "Sophie and the Rising Sun" by Augusta Trobaugh. The film stars Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi, Margo Martindale, Diane Ladd, Lorraine Toussaint and Karen Wheeling Reynolds. The film was released in theaters on January 25, 2017 by Monterey Media.
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Married in Canada Married in Canada is a Canadian documentary about human rights and cross-border same-sex marriage. The documentary is produced and directed by Arianne Robinson, a Toronto-based filmmaker, her first feature-length documentary.
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Rana Rahimpour Rana Rahimpour (Persian: رعنا رحیم پور) is a British Iranian journalist who works for the "BBC World Service". She is a news presenter and reporter with the BBC Persian TV. She has anchored and covered many major Iranian and international stories for the network, including Iran's nuclear programme, Iran's Presidential elections 2009 and its aftermath both for BBC Persian television and BBC World Service and the Iranian Presidential election of 2013.
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The Return of Navajo Boy The Return of Navajo Boy (released in 2000) is a documentary film produced by Jeff Spitz and Bennie Klain about the Cly family, Navajo who live on their reservation. Through them, the film explores several longstanding issues among the Navajo and their relations with the United States government and corporations: environmental racism, white supremacy, media and political representation, off-reservation adoption, and denial of reparations for environmental illnesses due to uranium mining in Monument Valley, Utah, which was unregulated for decades. Bill Kennedy served as the film's executive producer; his late father had produced and directed the earlier silent film "The Navajo Boy" (1950s), which featured the Cly family.
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Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper is a Canadian-American television film from 1981 about the "Canadian Caper" during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crises.
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Breaking Point (2005 film) Breaking Point (French: Point de rupture) is a Canadian documentary film, released in 2005. Aired on CBC Television in English and on Télévision de Radio-Canada in French and released to mark the tenth anniversary of the 1995 Quebec sovereignty referendum, the film explored the dynamics of the referendum campaign through interviews with and news clips of several of the major players on both sides of the debate.