2007 Sundance Film Festival

The directors' personal stories and family experiences are the foundations of two Sundance films: "Life Support," and "Sweet Mud." Nelson George, whose film, "Life Support," stars Queen Latifah," and Dror Shaul, who borrows from his life in a Kibbutz, talk about bringing true life to the screen.

Antonio Banderas is one of the biggest movie stars in the world, but for his feature film debut, "Summer Rain" ("El Camino de los ingleses"), he returns to his roots in Southern Spain.

Three members of the cast, Kate del Castillo, Adrian Alonso and Eugenio Derbez, talk about what it was like making this poignant film about a mother and son reunion, set against the backdrop of the hot-button issue of illegal immigration from Mexico.

Between the Civil War and the Great Depression countless black residents were expelled from towns and cities across the US. In his startling documentary, director/producer Marco Williams visits three all-white towns, where the past is not past.

Director Maurice Jamal talks to Black Voices about his film, which will be released in the Spring and his involvement with the Black House Foundation, a clearing house for African American filmmakers.

Director Sterlin Harjo's feature debut is a poignant and penetrating look at contemporary Native American life. Harjo and stars, Tamara Podemski and Cody Lightning, talk amongst themselves about the film's significance.

Director Be' Garrett does more with 10 minutes than most filmmakers do with two hours. His tense, taut film leaves audiences breathless. Here he tells Black Voices how he achieved his perfect short vision.

Child soldiers are some of the human fallout from wars waged from Angola to Jakarta. In the feature "Ezra," director Newton I. Aduaka focuses on one child soldier's experience in a fictitious West African nation.

Mario Vazquez - The former American Idol contestant was hanging at Sundance and dropped by the Black Voices set to sing a few bars. Mario is also a first-time NAACP Image Award nominee.

Directors and screenwriters Cao Guimaraes and Pablo Lobato spent more than a month touring 20 cities in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The result is "Acidente," a visually poem to the diversity and cultures of the region. Here Guimaraes explains why they made the film.

Michael Douglas plays a mentally dysfunctional father in Mike Cahill's debut film, "King of California." Cahill tells Black Voices what it was like working with Douglas and how Evan Rachel Wood, who plays Douglas' daughter, more than held her own with the star.

At six hours long, "Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman," is more of a mini-series that a documentary. But director Jennifer Fox, who tells her personal journey through relationships, love and sex and those of women around the globe, tell Black Voices the film is the perfect length.

"Angel-A," writer/director Luc Besson, know for action-packed films with quirky love story lines (see "The Professional"), paints a portrait of a desperate man saved by an "Angel." Besson and the film's star, former cover model Rie Rasmusssen, talk other about the film and film in general.

The wife and husband filmmakers, Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine, chronicle the lives of children made orphan by the an unending civil war in northern Uganda in their documentary, "War Dance." Here they discuss how difficult it was to get the film made.

At what point does one stop being an observer and become an activist? In the documentary "The Devil Came on Horseback," Marine Captain Brian Steidle transitions from an unarmed military observer working for the African Union in the Darfur region of Sudan, to a vocal witness of what has been aptly described as genocide. Her he tells co-director and screenwriter Annie Sundberg how difficult his journey was.

Evo Morales is no Hugo Sanchez, at least not yet. In "Cocalero," director/screenwriter Alejandro Landes provides an intimate portrait of the first indigenous leader of Bolivia, who like the Venezuelan head is causing geo-political waves.. Landes, who at one point was accused by Morales of being a CIA operative, talks about the man who champions the coca crops in his nation.

"Stomp The Yard," and let "How She Move" through. In this Black Voices Unscripted, director Ian Iqbal Rashid and star Rutina Wesley talk about their film, which follows the trials and tribulations of a young female stepper.