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Hesam Dehghani
Robin Bisio
Lorenzo Harani
Arturo López
Carme Puche Moré
Jean Apa
Heloisa Machado
Francisco Tomás Sanchez
mohammad Kazemzadeh mojde
Willy Burrut (seudónimo d
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Dani Feixas
Nima Tabandeh
Salih Cihan Özalp
Orangel Lugo
Rodrigo Sena
Esteban Santana Guerrero
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make films with sweat, not debt

The Art of Lying

The Art of Lying

Werner Herzog confuses fact and fiction for the sake of ecstatic truth - for moments of deep illumination where you know that you're not alone. (The Projectionist)

By EL Pobre Profe

The Devil's Apricot

The Devil's Apricot

a short documentary about the guy who puts the 6 into 666

By Jonathan Brooks

Making Microcinema

Making Microcinema

Interviews with the cast and crew about the making of the cult hit short horror movie, Microcinema.

Social Justice - F A Hayek

Social Justice - F A Hayek

William F Buckley Jr hosts a discussion on social justice with George Roche III (Hillsdale College) and Noble Laureate economist F. A. Hayek

By ideólogo monofóbico

Kevin Smith: How He Made Clerks

Kevin Smith: How He Made "Clerks"

Kevin Smith wrote, directed and produced his first movie, Clerks, for just $27,000 and was subsequently hailed as part of a new wave of self-funded filmmakers.

By EL Pobre Profe

Chilean director on making an experimental short film in Manhattan.

Chilean director on making an experimental short film in Manhattan.

Chilean director Claudinho Andres Gmz on making the experimental short film "Beat The City".in Manhattan.

By Claudinho Andres Gmz

Discussion with John Carpenter at NYFA

Discussion with John Carpenter at NYFA

Filmmaker John Carpenter has a one-on-one discussion about his career, his films and the filmmaking business.

By EL Pobre Profe

Wim Wenders: Painter, Filmmaker

Wim Wenders: Painter, Filmmaker

�The world was such a better world in paintings than in reality.� Growing up in post-war D�sseldorf, it was through paintings that German filmmaker Wim Wenders initially discovered the possibility of a different world. This would later come to define ...

By EL Pobre Profe

Introducing Tyson

Introducing Tyson

Tyson outlines the epic film making endeavor he accomplished in his village. First, he convinces his neighbors to "invest" in the production; then he writes a village movie, centered on culture and custom; and finally he directs the art production, t ...

By ideólogo monofóbico

"Kafka's sister's castle" by Alex Chomicz is a mock documentary consisting of an interview with Kafka's angst-ridden, chain smoking niece. She relates the curious history of Kafka's sister's (her mother's) misguided act of homage to Kafka's book of 1 ...

Sam Pollard: film editor & producer

Sam Pollard: film editor & producer

Sam Pollard is an Academy Award nominated and multiple Emmy winning producer, director, and editor. His professional accomplishments span almost thirty years. He has directed and produced an accolade of noteworthy documentaries, such as Brother Outsi ...

By EL Pobre Profe

All Art Is Propaganda: Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell

All Art Is Propaganda: Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell

George Packer (born August 13, 1960) is an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. He is perhaps best known for his writings for The New Yorker about U.S. foreign policy and for his related book The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. Pa ...

10 Questions for Werner Herzog

10 Questions for Werner Herzog

This is a brief interview that was shot during Werner Herzog's five-day visit to Indiana University for a Patten Lectureship and film series at Indiana University Cinema in September, 2012. Details for the events can be found here: http://www.c ...

By ideólogo monofóbico

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Building bridges based on the
belief that film becomes art
only when its materials are as
inexpensive as pencil & paper

Cine Pobre is the 100%
self-funded intersection of
culture and capabilities
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NOTABLES
The Last Photo
The Model
Fourteen Days
La Descorrupcion
Yomigaeru To Live Again
Veni Etiam
The Servant
Young Syrian Lenses
Brazil is Not Copacabana
Forest of Copper Columns
About Killing The Pig
The Caramel Corn Riot
Fiona Humphrey: A Family Album

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