Interview with filmmaker Michael Kleiman, director of “Web”

Web is an upcoming full-length documentary directed by Michael Kleiman, a young and talented filmmaker from New York who embarked on a personal journey to capture the moment when a group of children in a remote corner of Peru’s Amazon jungle interact with the Internet for the first time.

Consulting some of the leading minds in the Internet world, Kleiman explores profound questions about technology, interdependence, and the deep human connections that bind us all.

The film follows the work of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) — an organization that produces network-based laptops for distribution to children in the poorest areas of the world. One of those locations was Palestina, Peru.

“It’s a little ironic that they have the information superhighway before they have a highway,” Kleiman says in this podcast interview with Peruvian Times:

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Lori Berenson interview with Peruvian Times

Lori Berenson met Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, with Peruvian Times Managing Editor Rick Vecchio and veteran freelance journalist Lucien Chauvin.

The meeting came two hours after Berenson had spoken before a judicial tribunal deciding whether to rescind her parole, threatening to send her back to prison to serve out the remaining five years of a 20-year sentence for  collaboration with the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.

For more than an hour Berenson answered questions in English and Spanish, on the condition that her statements would remain Off The Record until and if she was ordered  to return to prison. That order came two days later.

Here is the seven-part interview in English.