Two NEW documentaries are out on GlobalCinema.online
Newsletter No. 112 | March 9, 2025
Synopsis: The film provides an intimate, thought-provoking portrayal of a woman's attempt to heal herself from various power-over dynamics, including inherited family conditioning and cult indoctrination. Angie Meiklejohn and her sisters are compelling camera subjects, and the focus and clarity they each apply to the parental neglect and sexual abuse they have suffered is startling. Their testimony also provides a very full picture of the complex legacy of the childhoods denied them and allows us to view even Angie’s wildest survival strategies with respect.
THE DIRECTOR
Costa Botes has been an independent filmmaker in New Zealand since the early 1980s. He documented the making of Peter Jackson’s epic Lord of the Rings trilogy from 1999 to 2003 with a matching trio of feature-length documentaries, after which he established his own production company, Lone Pine Films, to make independent documentaries.
Forgotten Silver, a mock documentary co-written and co-directed with Peter Jackson in 1995, created a national sensation. It won a special critics prize at the Venice Film Festival and has become a cult favorite worldwide.
Beginning with Struggle No More (2006), a film about New Zealand's greatest unknown band, he has especially focused on themes of passion and persistence.
Costa’s other documentary features include Candyman: The David Klein Story, about the eccentric American candy genius who invented Jelly Belly jellybeans; The Last Dogs of Winter, about a man fighting to preserve rare Inuit sled dogs from extinction (official selection at the Toronto Film Festival in 2011); Act of Kindness, a feature documentary about a young New Zealander’s experiences in post-Genocide Rwanda; and Angie, about an abuse survivor’s quest to heal herself. His most recent picture, When the Cows Come Home, received seven awards, including Best Director, at the Global Nonviolent Film Festival, was released in cinemas in New Zealand and is now streaming on GlobalCinema.online. BIOGRAPHY
Synopsis: Extreme Reflections is a musical story depicting the lives of two cellists from vastly different generations: a 101-year-old American-Russian and a 13-year-old child prodigy from Detroit.
Maestro Alexander Kouguell chronicles his life in a family immersed in music and surrounded by countless opportunities due to his father and mother. Jivan Ramesh’s story of a child prodigy details a life of learning, playing, and composing music.
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THE DIRECTOR
Dr. Teresa Mular was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she was raised and educated. She graduated from university as a medical doctor at the age of 23. Parallel to that, she studied piano and voice at the National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires. She moved to New York to further her training at Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, where she became Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at age 35. She was president of the New York Gynecological Society from 2014 to 2015.
She started her second career as a cinematographer in 2009. In the years that followed, she produced many documentaries that have been awarded at international film festivals. Her first film, Flying on the Wings of Time—about the cultural life of Buenos Aires—won Best Foreign Language Documentary at the International Cinema Awards in Milan in 2018 and Best Story at the East Europe International Film Festival in Warsaw, 2019. It obtained the Silver Award at the Oregon International Film Festival 2014.
Her second documentary, The Muse Is the Mountain, is about artisan women living in the remote mountainous regions of Monteverde, Costa Rica, and their struggles to become independent and successful in their own habitat. The film received numerous nominations and awards, both in the USA and abroad.
Her third, fourth, and fifth films are short comedies written, produced, and directed by her. Based mostly on actual facts and indignities she experienced while boarding planes at various airports, the uniqueness of these three works is that dogs (including her own) were included as actors. The first of these films was Now Boarding 2015, which was acclaimed nationally and internationally with multiple awards and official nominations.
Dr. Mular continues to direct and produce films. In 2022, her documentary Can't Stop the Sun from Shining won Best Director and Best Medical Subject at the Global Nonviolent Film Festival, and her latest documentary, Extreme Reflections, won Best Director at the same festival in 2024. Both films are streaming on GlobalCinema.online. Biography
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