Café Cinema

- Season 1

(2014)

Kambiz Shabankare (Film Director) and Michael Thielvoldt (Film Critic and Adjunct Radio, Television and Film Faculty at Austin Community College) analyze the movie, "Dogtooth", from different perspectives.

Focuses on domestic violence. Kambiz Shabankare (Film Director) Frank Calvillo (Screenwriter) and Kathryn Krastin (Social Issue Activist) Analyze the movie "Take My Eyes" from this perspective.

A review over the Korean movie Silenced and the subject Child Abuse

Reviewing the movie "The Class" through the subject bullying.

A review about LGBT and their condition through the movie "Amphetamine"

At the end of 2012 the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported that there were 15.4 million refugees worldwide. Kambiz Shabankare (Film Director), Frank Calvillo (Screenplay Writer and Film Critic), and Kathryn Krastin (Social Issue Activist) discuss this issue through the movie "The Suspended Step of the Stork" by Teodoros Angelopoulos.

Intersex is a variation in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, or genitals that do not allow an individual to be distinctly identified as male or female. Some individuals may be raised as a certain sex (male or female) but then identify with another later in life, while others may not identify themselves as either exclusively female or exclusively male. Research has shown that inter-sex people experience the same range of sexual orientations and gender identities as non-inter-sex people. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights defined ...

Human trafficking is the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or for the extraction of organs or tissues. Trafficking is a profitable industry, representing an estimated $32 billion per year in international trade, half of which ($15.5 billion) is made in industrialized countries, and a third of which ($9.7 billion) is made in Asia. The most common form of human trafficking (79%) is sexual exploitation. Sexual trafficking is forcing a person into a sexual act as a condition of allowing or arranging the migration. The victims ...

Organ trafficking is the trade involving inner human organs (heart, liver, kidneys, etc.) for organ transplantation. There is a worldwide shortage of organs available for transplantation, yet commercial trade in human organs is illegal in all countries except Iran. A recent report by Global Financial Integrity estimated that the illegal organ trade generates profits between $600 million and $1.2 billion per year. Children, especially those from poor backgrounds or children with disabilities are often targeted. The Episode Discusses the crime, children organ harvesting...