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“He’s the Pioneer of Bullshit”: Eva Orner Talks ‘Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator’

by Pat Mullen
November 20, 2019August 17, 2021
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Academy Award winner discusses her documentary Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator about hot yoga guru Bikram Choudhury, whose downfall preceded the #MeToo movement and is a tale of a bad guy who got

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Review: ‘Chasing Asylum’

by Pat Mullen
May 4, 2016December 26, 2021
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Eva Orner's Chasing Asylum takes audiences to the remote islands of Nauru and Manus where refugees wait in despondent limbo.

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