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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).

in issue 49

Everyday Freaks and Fantasy Wars: The 2005 San Francisco
International Film Festival — It was the best of times ...

in issue 42

2003 Montreal World Film Festival A world-class city offers a world-class fest — despite some troubling backstory

in issue 39

Fidel — Estela Bravo's documentary offers an in-depth portrait of the enduring world leader who stood up to the U.S.

in issue 36

The Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, February 2002 — An engaging mix of cinema — two-thirds of it Canadian — visits the Great White North's "postcard village on steroids"

in issue 34

Occupied Territory: Sylvie Groulx's In the Shadow of Hollywood — America's cultural colonizing is scored in this French-Canadian documentary you'll probably never see

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