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Las Vegas- a hellish 107° Fahrenheit made to feel even hotter by the heat island effect. The standstill traffic — in the poster child for “non-walkable cities adds insult to injury. We walked along the strip the last quarter mile to complete our 1.5-mile, 30-minute journey. With Postcard from Earth, director Darren Aronofsky, a Brooklyn […]
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VIDEO EXPLAINER: Why writers went on strike
On September 27, 2023, the Writers Guild of America finally agreed to a 3-year basic minimum agreement after five long months of striking as a union. This agreement will increase writer pay, provide minimum staffing in writers’ rooms, legally protect writers from scripts written by artificial intelligence, and, most importantly, ensure that writing doesn’t end […]
Sam Pollard: An Awe-Inspiring Figure Chronicling the Black Experience
Harlem-born Sam Pollard, a filmmaker and Oscar nominated editor, has spent his entire career chronicling the Black American experience. Pollard, now a professor of film at New York University for the last 27 years, found his passion for movies by watching the works of Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Alfred Hitchcock. He credits them for […]
Independent Film Remains Resilient Despite Pandemic’s Challenges
COVID has impacted the film industry with delays, cancellations, and shutdowns in 2020. Still, the fall festival season went forward — with Venice Film Festival in-person, Toronto virtual and New York (NYFF) a mixture of drive-in and virtual. That means Eric Kohn, the executive editor and chief critic at IndieWire, is as busy as ever […]
The Best Efforts to Adapt Still Leave Festivals and Filmmakers in Limbo
Amelia Moses was excited to have her first movie, “Bleed With Me,” premiere at Fantasia Film Festival, a Montreal-based genre festival, in July. Moses and the crew, who live in Montreal, were going to reunite with the Toronto-based cast for a special celebration of their work. It took two years for the 27-year-old and her […]