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5 QUESTIONS for Filmmaker: STORM SAULTER
SPRINTER is the Winner of the Best Feature Film, Best Director, and Audience Award at 2018’s American Black Film Festival, Jury Winner for Best Narrative Feature at the 2019 Pan African Film Festival, and is a feature narrative screening at Philadelphia's BlackStar Film Festival
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8th Annual BLACKSTAR FILM FESTIVAL COVERAGE
Founded in 2012 by Maori Karmael Holmes, BlackStar has become the hottest event on the film festival calendar. Exposing and providing its audience with must-see film premieres, poignant artist discussions, and discoveries of emerging filmmakers. Remember, artists like Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty; HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness), Matthew A. Cherry (9 RIdes; ABC's Whiskey Cavalier), Nijla Baseema Mu'min (Jinn)
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The Lion King
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YESTERDAY
Tinsel & Tine #MiniMovieReview YESTERDAY (Director Danny Boyle | Writer Richard Curtis) I’m fascinated by The Mandela Effect – that phenomenon where a large collective of people globally remember something that didn’t actually happen. It’s named after South African President and anti-apartheid revolutionary, Nelson Mandela, because many people remember him dying in prison in the 80’s, from the announcement on the news, to watching the funeral service. But of course, this never happened, he survived prison, made a huge contribution as a political leader and died a peaceful death in 2013. The Bernstein Bears vs Berenstain Bears & Sinbad not actually having ever done a movie called Shazaam are two…
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Toy Story 4
Tinsel & Tine #MiniMovieReview TOY STORY 4 (Director Josh Cooley) The opening sequence featuring that torrential downpour was just gorgeous, and so realistic, is there nothing animation can’t do incredibly well now? There’s no doubt Toy Story 3 was a super, well-crafted piece of storytelling, not good for animation, just good, and I would say #ToyStory4 comes very near to being as involving and as well written. And this one went through some upheavals before making it to the big screen – John Lasseter, former chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios & Pixar stepped down from his position, but was allowed to finish guiding this 4th adventure with…
