Tonight at 10 pm, POV is airing the documentary "The Fall of Fujimori" about former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori who was exiled to Japan. Filmmaker Alex Cox of "Repo Man" fame wrote a story about the documentary in the current issue of "Film Comment." Next week, POV airs "The Tailenders," a documentary about the Global Recording Network, a Christian missionary recording outlet which has produced recordings about the Bible for the most remote places on earth. POV generally airs at 10 pm on Tuesdays in most markets, including WUNC-TV here in North Carolina.
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Update, July 21: According to an email about the program, The Global Recording Network was found in 1939 and has produced audio version of Bible stories in over 5,500 languages! The film is directed Adele Horne, who grew up in a fundamentalist household but has since moved away from the movement. The documentary was filmed in the United States, the Solomon Islands, India and Mexico. The film is intended to be a filmic essay that examines the missionaries' strategic use of media and the intersection of missionary activity and global capitalism.
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Well, it may be tacky to add your own comments to one's own blog, but I saw this film on PBS last night and I found it very informative. One has to be impressed with the missionaires for the devoution to their work while at the same time one has to be concerned that have overstepped their bounds by trying to convert people from other religions, including Buddhism and Islam, and by telling people in places like Mexico and Guatemala that they should not worship saints, which is an inherent part of their respective cultures.
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