When I started focusing and unlocking my inner child dramas and traumas that I still held, that allowed me to open up, release and heal.
"Loverboy," a cautionary mother-child drama, starts out warm and fuzzy, then stealthily pulls out the rug until you suddenly find yourself standing on a cold stone floor, barefoot and shivering.
The problem is that divisions between comedy and drama are arbitrary and increasingly hard to apply as the two genres coalesce: Little Children (drama, according to the Globes) and Little Miss Sunshine (ranked as a comedy) both have moments of humour and of bleakness.
Jury Prize: "Loveless," a Russian missing-child drama directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev.
It's also true for Solondz, whose bullied-child drama "Welcome to the Dollhouse," when it premiered at Sundance in 1995, helped define the brutally human, blackly comic sensibility that characterized the 1990's indie movement.
The world dramatic competition, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, features a dose of star power as well, including Michael Fassbender in "Slow West," a frontier romance set in 19th century America, and Nicole Kidman in "Strangerland," a missing-child drama set in Australia.
On Monday night, in a small screening room below the Museum of Modern Art, Martin Scorsese stood up and told a group that included Chris Rock, Ellen Burstyn and Kathleen Turner that the recently released missing-child drama "Meadowland" was worth paying attention to.
American initiatives around the Middle East, and especially in Palestine's poorest areas offer American youth the chance to teach disadvantaged children drama, arts, athletics, music, computers and earn the love and trust of the Middle East one country at a time.
These can include documentaries that detail the situation of children, dramas that help break down stereotypes and discrimination, or animation that teaches and entertains.
