Interviews Archives
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BlackStar Film Festival Coverage August 6-9, 2026
The 14th Annual BlackStar Film Festival held in Center City Philadelphia, once again checked all the boxes of a successful fest. The close proximity of the venues (Kimmel Center, Wilma Theater and Suzanne Roberts Theater) are ideal, particularly, I would imagine for travelers from other cities and countries. The theme this year was Cinema for Liberation...
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Writing/Directing Siblings : “THE SO AND SO BROTHERS”
Where most siblings grow up and go their separate ways; making or breaking their careers with other collaborators they meet along the way or forging a path alone - it seems the ones that put their heads together have a better chance of being very successful. I always wished that me and one of my sisters or brother had tried to work together and grab some glory as a team;
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BlackStar Film Festival Coverage July 31- Aug 3, 2025
The 14th Annual BlackStar Film Festival held in Center City Philadelphia, once again checked all the boxes of a successful fest. The close proximity of the venues (Kimmel Center, Wilma Theater and Suzanne Roberts Theater) are ideal, particularly, I would imagine for travelers from other cities and countries. The theme this year was Cinema for Liberation...
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PHLAFF -Mexican Filmmaker Carlos Meléndez
The PHILADELPHIA LATINO ARTS & FILM FESTIVAL produces events and screenings from May 25 – July 6, 2025. Sadly, I only managed to get to one event, and missed the intended screening entirely. I wasn’t aware there were two PHLAFF rooms at Fleisher Art Memorial going on at the same time, one upstairs and one downstairs. By the time I asked someone when would Meléndez horror shorts play? I had missed them screening upstairs. But I got there in time to hear his Talkback moderated by my new friend, Erick Barragán Ramírez of CINEPAMINA. Click Image to hear excerpts…
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TILL (Story of Emmett Till) Interview w/ Dir Chinonye Chukwu
The movie centers around Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley played with stunning truth and clarity by Danielle Deadwyler...
