The Lifeboat
It’s only
the third issue of The Lifeboat, but the writing process already amazes me. My previous essay was a child of spontaneity. This quality is inherent in me and it is present in many areas of my life, so now in writing. After one spontaneous essay, I got a spontaneous idea to write another one.
In this essay, I am going to dig a bit deeper into how spontaneity works for me and what role curious learning plays in it.
While I am adjusting the oars, do you fancy for a drink?
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Filmmaker Vitaly Mansky on Artdocfest and Russia on Film
For more than 30 years Mansky has championed documentary filmmaking. Mansky with Mikhail Gorbachev Masnki-doc.com
Film director Vitaly Mansky is usually behind the camera, but in recent weeks he found himself on the other side of the lens. The founder and president of Artdocfest, the largest independent documentary film festival in Russia, was in the news throughout the festival in Moscow and St. Petersburg as he was closed down by the authorities and attacked by pro-Kremlin activists. news
The award-winning filmmaker, who has directed more than 30 films, has made it his mission to keep documentary filmmaking alive and before the public. He began Artdocfest in 2007 in Moscow, but after its uncensored selection of films on the widest variety of topics drew increasing criticism, disruption, and attacks, he moved his family and the festival to Riga. But the festival, online and