Audio Stories
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Audio Stories First-person stories can be compelling as storytellers recount a noteworthy, often dramatic experience in their lives. The stories featured here were told to students of MIT 3776 – Audio Journalism and Podcasting, taught by Lecturer Bernard Graham. They were recorded, edited, and mixed by students as part of their course work. Each story is up to five minutes … Read More

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Podcasts
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Podcasts These short podcasts were hosted and produced by students in MIT 3776 – Audio Journalism and Podcasting, taught by Lecturer Bernard Graham. The podcasts featured here explore a variety of topics, from crime to love and much more. MIT 3776 is an introductory course combining both the theory and practice of podcasting and audio journalism, with students producing and … Read More

Podcasts + Audio
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Students in MIT 3776 – Audio Journalism and Podcasting crafted thought-provoking podcasts and entertaining audio stories.

Banel & Adama by Billie Anderson
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In a cinematic era dominated by narratives celebrating empowered women directed by women, with recent releases like Barbie (dir. Greta Gerwig), Bottoms (dir. Emma Seligman), Saint Omer (dir. Alice Diop), and Joy Ride (dir. Adele Lim), Banel & Adama offers a profound exploration of womanhood in a rural Senegalese village where the line between reality and folklore blurs. At its … Read More

Banel & Adama by Santasil Mallik
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Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s debut feature, Banel & Adama, is an acutely measured film that concocts a fable-like story around the passionate liaison between its eponymous protagonists. It begins with an almost idyllic state of things, casting the lovers in the halcyon of unwavering affection. Outside the precincts of a Senegalese village, they hope to live together in a forsaken house buried … Read More

Smugglers by Busra Copuroglu
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Set in the 1970s South Korea when it was closed to the outside world, Ryoo Seung-wan’s Smugglers revolves around a group of women free divers –haenyo- who retrieve the loot from the deepest, darkest corners of the sea for a smuggling operation run by men in a small sea village of Guncheon. As a nearby chemical factory threatens the livelihoods … Read More

“Smugglers”: An Entertaining Yet Shallow Dive by Eduard Sviridenko
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In the vibrant landscape of Ryoo Seung-wan’s “Smugglers,” we’re introduced to a tempting array of ideas. At its core, the film is an ambitious blend of comedy, action, and drama which, while engaging, sometimes balances on the edge of losing its identity amid its attempt to encompass all genres.  The cinematography offers an evident playfulness. The vivid use of bright … Read More

Smugglers by Revna Altiok
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Seung-wan Ryoo’s “Smugglers”, originally intended to be an aquatic crime thriller, explores the intricacies of female friendship. While initially flirting with stereotypical character tropes for its female leads – the more traditionally masculine, honest, and honorable Jin-sook; the strong but selfish and mischievous femme-fatale-esque Chun-ja; and Ok-bun, a not-very-bright tea-shop owner who wields her femininity as a weapon – the … Read More

Smugglers by Santasil Mallik
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Ryoo Seung-wan’s comic-action flick Smugglers offers a cinematic salutation to the indomitable spirit of haenyeo – a dying, semi-matriarchal commune of female divers from the South Korean district of Jeju whose livelihood constitutes harvesting molluscs and seaweed from the ocean. The film tells the story of six divers set in the middle of a nationwide smuggling racket during the country’s … Read More