An attempt at joining the masses….
Learning Tagalog With Kayla (Teaser) from Kayla Abuda Galang on Vimeo.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spoilers ahead.
As we continue gushing about SXSW (trust us, you’ll be hearing about SXSW for weeks from us), we want to shed light on a short film that floored us. Learning Tagalog With Kayla begins exactly as it sounds. Read more…
We’ll just come right out and say it. We’re Focus Features junkies. Ever since the boutique, art-house film group started releasing films in 2002 we’ve done our part to try and see as many Focus Feature films as possible. It started with Far From Heaven and 18 years later we’re still trying to watch whatever they put in front of us. While they’re still prone to mistakes we can say we like at least 75 percent of what they’ve released to date. Read more…
We’re always on the lookout for an artist that is just under the radar. Someone ready to make a big splash. Someone on the precipice of something truly great. Enter New York singer-songwriter Simone. At just 16, she sounds wise beyond her years and precocious enough to take the alt-pop world by storm. Read more…
Potato Dreams of America: Back To Russia from Catherine Joy on Vimeo.
We’re still trying to process and review all of the films we saw as part of SXSW’s 2021 Film Festival. However as the more time passes the more we’re beginning to realize that might be a tall order. There is one film though we’re quick to review and recommend: Potato Dreams of America. Read more…
Joe Buffalo | Official Trailer from Amar Chebib on Vimeo.
UPDATE: Joe Buffalo won the 2021 SXSW Audience Award for Best Documentary Short.
Documentary short films when done well do everything a non-fiction short story might do: they introduce you to a character, reveal said character’s story, detail a battle the protagonist has overcome and in the end leaves you feeling informed, educated and asking more questions. These aren’t questions that leave you trying to dot the I and cross the T. Instead these are questions that make you want to dig deeper into the protagonist’s story more now than ever before. Read more…
We’re still gushing from our first SXSW experience (have you not noticed?). But the one thing we’re most stoked on is the contacts we have made. One such contact is Atlanta’s Jasmin Rhia. To date she is a hip-hop artist, record producer, violinist, DJ and mental health activist. Being that I am married to a violinist and am a mental health activist myself there was lots to engage here. Though hip-hop is a genre that we don’t follow or actively engage with, we’re not one to turn down a chance to expand our horizons. Read more…
After the Murder of Albert Lima, a Crackle Original film which debuted today on the streaming site, is a documentary which straddles the line between true crime documentary and narrative in a way that is compelling and worth the 90 minute investment. Read more…
THE OXY KINGPINS – "Alex & Papantonio" from The Young Turks on Vimeo.
Well here we are. SXSW is raging on and we are just plumb-tuckered out. We just finished participating in “Dream” (more on that later). For now, the film highlights from Day 1. It was a doc-heavy day. Not many, if any, narrative films to speak of so far. Highlights include: Read more…
We are big fans of the Amazon episodic series “Modern Love” and have been trying in earnest to find something that might replicate that viewing experience. Enter “Joy & Jim” a modern exploration of love whose pilot episode debuted at the Pan-African Film Festival last weekend. Read more…
Documentaries are at their best when they play out like narratives. Much in the way historical fiction has become one of the fastest selling book markets, immersive documentaries have the power to transform the viewing experience beyond just the subject matter. Read more…
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