Email Author Elena Oumano

2009 Stories by Elena Oumano

• At the Edge of the World

  published August 25, 2009

  With no nation willing to enforce a 1986 international agreement establishing Antarctica's Ross Sea as a mammal sanctuary, the Sea Shepherds,... More >>

• Getting Old's a Bitch in Gotta Dance

  published July 28, 2009

  Dori Berinstein's documentary, which looks at a year in the lives of the 12 women and one chunky B-boy in the New Jersey Nets senior (as in... More >>

• Amusingly Improbable Coincidences Satisfy in Off Jackson Avenue

  published July 15, 2009

  Brutal Albanians dupe an innocent Mexican (Jessica Pimentel) into sex slavery—she plots escape; a Chinatown don imports a Japanese... More >>

• Downloading Nancy Delves into Schizoid Realm of S/M

  published June 3, 2009

  'Life is like being trapped in the wrong house, looking for a way out," says Nancy (an excruciatingly believable Maria Bello) in this film's... More >>

• New York African Film Festival

  published April 8, 2009

  Africa is producing many films these days; sadly, few reach audiences in Europe or, especially, the U.S., where visions of Africa usually come... More >>

• Forbidden Lie$ Explores Con Artist Lies and Documentary Truth

  published April 1, 2009

  In 2003, 35-year-old Jordanian virgin Norma Khouri published Forbidden Love, her bestselling memoir recounting a Muslim friend's murder... More >>