Culture-makers in South Africa say the revolution isn't over By THR Staff Shield and Spear Still - H 2014 Though he winds up introducing more characters than can be listed here, Ringbom opens with ...

Director Petter Ringbom takes on the consequences of freedom of expression in Shield and Spear. Following Ringbom’s first feature-length documentary, The Russian Winter, Shield and Spear ...

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine has generated robust debate in Japan about the implications for security in Asia. The Ukraine crisis is only one dimension of an already complex security environment, as ...

The documentary, 'Shield and Spear', screening at Durban International Film Festival, is directed, written and shot by Petter Ringbom, a New York-based director of documentary and narrative films.

A hip Brooklyn crowd trekked to the Walter Reade Theater for the premiere of director Petter Ringbom’s “Shield and Spear” — a documentary about politically active artists in South Africa.

In it, Han Fei wrote of the ‘spear and shield paradox’, of what happens when a spear that can pierce any shield encounters a shield that can withstand any spear. In centuries since ...

The name sounds exactly like the Chinese words for spear and shield—a combination which, according to a literary tradition 2,500 years old, signifies contradiction. Last week, as Red China’s ...

Shield and Spear presents intimate stories about the artists, art, music, identity, race and freedom of expression in South Africa 20 years into democracy.