Director / Writer Dana Ziyasheva Talks About 'Defenders of Life'
Director Dana Ziyasheva made her directorial debut, 'Defenders of Life' which focuses on the Ngäbe community, and the hardships Ngäbe girls faced in Costa Rica.

While Félix, 26, is celebrating his birthday at home with his family, he discovers a hateful comment on one of his videos. He concludes that it inevitably comes from someone in his family because the video is published privately and therefore only a member of his family had the possibility of viewing it.
Director Dana Ziyasheva made her directorial debut, 'Defenders of Life' which focuses on the Ngäbe community, and the hardships Ngäbe girls faced in Costa Rica.
The beating heart of this film is the relationship between Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse.
This animated kids' movie shows viewers two different species--jungle animals and aliens--and how both species coexist.
A film that focuses on an algorithm for a dating app that will bring viewers in for a surprise.
Animation as a medium of storytelling can be thought to be open to all ages and as I hope my reading will reveal, 'Nimona' could be interpreted as a transgender story.
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.