Joanne Bealy, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

Author: Joanne Bealy

Joanne Bealy lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Her essays and poetry have appeared in various papers and journals including the East Bay Express ("Hollywood, Race, and the State of Denial"), San Francisco Bay Guardian (on Haiku), Pandora, AnteUp, New Works in Review, and New Voices in Poetry and Prose. A chapbook of her poetry, Crooked Love, was published in the spring of 1999. Her latest book, At the Mercy of Gravity, was published in the spring of 2003 by Dancing Crow Press and is available online at Amazon (click here).

Festivals & Awards · Reviews

Everyday Freaks and Fantasy Wars: The 2005 San Francisco International Film Festival

August 1, 2005

It was the best of times . . . Running parallel to the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival were a surprisingly large number of other celebrations of film, including[…]

Festivals & Awards

The 2003 Montréal World Film Festival

October 31, 2003

A world-class city offers a world-class fest despite some troubling backstory

Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews

Estela Bravo’s Fidel (2001), a Documentary

February 1, 2003

This documentary offers an affectionate, in-depth portrait of the enduring world leader who stood up to the U.S. Over the course of the last 40 years, the CIA has tried[…]

Festivals & Awards

The Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival: February 2002

April 1, 2002

An engaging mix of cinema – two-thirds of it Canadian – visits the Great White North’s “postcard village on steroids” The Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, now in its[…]

Documentaries · Reviews

Occupied Territory: Sylvie Groulx’s In the Shadow of Hollywood

October 1, 2001

America’s cultural colonizing is scored in a French-Canadian documentary you’ll probably never see Imagine if you walked into your local Starbucks and could only order caramel lattes. No cappuccinos, no[…]