As an officer with the US Information Agency (USIA), Mike Canning worked for 28 years as a press and cultural officer in eight countries on four continents and, in retirement, he retains his interest in promoting a vigorous public diplomacy. Canning’s second career has been as a movie reviewer since 1993 for the Hill Rag newspaper on Capitol Hill. He is a member of the Washington Area Film Critics’ Association and has his own website of film writings at www.mikesflix.com.
In recent years, over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change, and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. A sense of that mass migration is depicted in Human Flow, a film epic created by the internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei…
