list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around EMPz 4 Life on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/EMPz_4_Life/290302/default.aspx Title: EMPz 4 Life
Year: 2006
Director: Allan King
Plot: EMPz is the nickname the residents of a Toronto suburb have given to their neighborhood, a community largely populated by low-income African-Canadians who struggle against the crime and violence that has become commonplace in their town. Brian Harvey is a community activist who works with at-risk youth in EMPz, setting up tutoring programs, after-school activities, free breakfasts for lower-income children and other programs in an effort to make a better life for young people, though he emphasizes that teenagers have to change their own minds about guns and gangs before their problems can begin to resolve themselves. Many young people in EMPz, however, feel they're engaged in a losing battle to reclaim their neighborhood given the attitudes of police and city officials about their community (several talk about being pulled over by traffic cops for "driving while black"). Veteran documentary filmmaker Allan King brought his camera crew to the EMPz during 2005, described as "the year of the gun" by the Canadian news media, and followed the efforts of Harvey and his compatriots to make a difference in a community that many in the city of Toronto had given up on. EMPz 4 Life received its world premier at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

An interview with Allan King about EMPz4Life
Paul interviews Allan King again about his latest documentary, EMPz for Life (2006).
(11/19/2006 Starz Denver Film Festival)




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]]>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:00:55 GMTEMPz 4 Life2006Allan KingEMPz is the nickname the residents of a Toronto suburb have given to their neighborhood, a community largely populated by low-income African-Canadians who struggle against the crime and violence that has become commonplace in their town. Brian Harvey is a community activist who works with at-risk youth in EMPz, setting up tutoring programs, after-school activities, free breakfasts for lower-income children and other programs in an effort to make a better life for young people, though he emphasizes that teenagers have to change their own minds about guns and gangs before their problems can begin to resolve themselves. Many young people in EMPz, however, feel they're engaged in a losing battle to reclaim their neighborhood given the attitudes of police and city officials about their community (several talk about being pulled over by traffic cops for "driving while black"). Veteran documentary filmmaker <a href="/players/P____97434/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Allan King</a> brought his camera crew to the EMPz during 2005, described as "the year of the gun" by the Canadian news media, and followed the efforts of Harvey and his compatriots to make a difference in a community that many in the city of Toronto had given up on. EMPz 4 Life received its world premier at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide<br><br><b>An interview with Allan King about <i>EMPz4Life</i></b><br>Paul interviews Allan King again about his latest documentary, <em>EMPz for Life</em> (2006).<br>(11/19/2006 Starz Denver Film Festival)<br><br><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="165" height="30" id="streaming" align="left"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="movie" value="http://spoutblog.com/podcastgen/streaming2.swf?mp3file=http://spoutblog.com/podcastgen/media/2006-11-18_dff061118allan_king_int.mp3" /><param name="loop" value="false" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="salign" value="lt" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="http://spoutblog.com/podcastgen/streaming2.swf?mp3file=http://spoutblog.com/podcastgen/media/2006-11-18_dff061118allan_king_int.mp3" loop="false" menu="false" quality="best" salign="lt" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="165" height="30" name="streaming" align="left" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object><br><br>125http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s290302.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/EMPz_4_Life/290302/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/4/25/27802.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: Paul interviews Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, opening tonight), which inadvertently pushes Paul & Kevin on to a road trip–metaphoricaly speaking–from a Whites Only saloon in the old west to the ghettos of Canada where a mathematician is changing the world and a legendary filmmaker brings them to enlightenment. (Also under discussion EMPz 4 Life) (Subscribe to FilmCouch–Spout’s weekly movie podcast–in the iTunes store and an episode will download each Friday) FilmCouch #67 - Wisdom of Kumar *Note: The phone number announced in the show has technical problems. If you want to leave a message, call: 1-800-749-0632 Channel: 8838 Password: 1111 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, EMPz 4 Life Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:00:55 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com4/25/2008 12:00:55 PM Paul interviews Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, opening tonight), which inadvertently pushes Paul & Kevin on to a road trip–metaphoricaly speaking–from a Whites Only saloon in the old west to the ghettos of Canada where a mathematician is changing the world and a legendary filmmaker brings them to enlightenment. (Also under discussion EMPz 4 Life) (Subscribe to FilmCouch–Spout’s weekly movie podcast–in the iTunes store and an episode will download each Friday) FilmCouch #67 - Wisdom of Kumar *Note: The phone number announced in the show has technical problems. If you want to leave a message, call: 1-800-749-0632 Channel: 8838 Password: 1111 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, EMPz 4 Life Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/paul/archive/2008/4/25/27801.aspx Post By: paul
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Body: Paul interviews Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, opening tonight), which inadvertently pushes Paul & Kevin on to a road trip–metaphoricaly speaking–from a Whites Only saloon in the old west to the ghettos of Canada where a mathematician is changing the world and a legendary filmmaker brings them to enlightenment. (Also under discussion EMPz 4 Life) (Subscribe to FilmCouch–Spout’s weekly movie podcast–in the iTunes store and an episode will download each Friday) FilmCouch #67 - Wisdom of Kumar *Note: The phone number announced in the show has technical problems. If you want to leave a message, call: 1-800-749-0632 Channel: 8838 Password: 1111 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, EMPz 4 Life Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul Moore
]]>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:00:37 GMTpaulpaul on spout.com4/25/2008 12:00:37 PM Paul interviews Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, opening tonight), which inadvertently pushes Paul & Kevin on to a road trip–metaphoricaly speaking–from a Whites Only saloon in the old west to the ghettos of Canada where a mathematician is changing the world and a legendary filmmaker brings them to enlightenment. (Also under discussion EMPz 4 Life) (Subscribe to FilmCouch–Spout’s weekly movie podcast–in the iTunes store and an episode will download each Friday) FilmCouch #67 - Wisdom of Kumar *Note: The phone number announced in the show has technical problems. If you want to leave a message, call: 1-800-749-0632 Channel: 8838 Password: 1111 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, EMPz 4 Life Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul Moore