Interviews Archives
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Sundance Film Festival 2020 Coverage January 22-27
So I made it! And it's A LOT! There's just so much going on and you have constant FOMO. Why do I have a Chase Freedom credit card instead of Chase Sapphire, so I can be a VIP in that lounge? Why are there so many private events where your press pass holds no clout?
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Spies in Disguise Directors Interview – Troy Quane & Nick Bruno
I really enjoyed meeting the two directors of SPIES IN DISGUISE Troy Quane & Nick Bruno both very engaging and genuinely in love with their movie. They not only made a good directorial team, but they were also perfectly in sync when answering questions...
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RECAP REELBLACK Presents: Screening Series Finale
Note: Recap was published November 10, 2019. Dates get changed to keep some posts on top #PhillyCalendar #MiniRecap on Friday night (11/8) Mike Dennis ended his 15 year Reelblack Inc. Screening Series. Reelblack will still be a leading voice for promoting and producing Black film and media, just in other outlets like the popular Reelblack Youtube channel. The finale was met with a great turnout, impressive local filmmakers, pearls of wisdom, a lot of love and a few technical difficulties 😄 The evening featured 5 local filmmakers and one who Skyped in from the UK – CORINE DHONDEE with her doc BRADFORD YOUNG: CINEMA IS THE WEAPON a candid interview…
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FirstGlance Film Festival Coverage 2019 – Including 5 Questions for Filmmakers
I met an awesome number of filmmakers and actors etc.. over this weekend 🤩 there's many films that deserve a spotlight but that's why I try to interview the filmmakers leading up to the festival - see below 5 Questions for #FirstGlance Filmmakers.
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HARRIET Kasi Lemmons Interview Philadelphia
By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Harriet Tubman, the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad as a superhero. Not in a Marvel sense of course, however an intention to show a woman of extraordinary courage & heroism is behind director Kasi Lemmons and Gregory Allen Howard’s script – as we see Tubman jump off a bridge to elude captors, travel hundreds of miles alone on foot to free herself, then risking that freedom to return again and again to free others, brandishing pistols, wading through deep waters and basically exhibiting the kind of physical & mental strength usually reserved for male super or action heroes. We begin on a plantation,…
