Movie News
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BlackStar William and Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar
3 Day Filmmaker Seminar There will also be opportunities for filmmakers to share and receive feedback on works-in-progress, meet media funders and other gatekeepers, and explore new storytelling models emerging through the use of virtual reality, augmented reality, and transmedia projects. Our environment considers the intersection of cinema and visual arts, and is exclusively designed for people of color to focus and not manage the added burden of representation.
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One Night in Miami w/Q&A
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI is officially my choice for Best Film of 2020! Here you have four men of iconic status, all hanging out together on a historic night (February 25, 1964) the night Clay took the title from Sonny Liston; and yet this is not common knowledge? I hate to say it, but say Joe Namath, Rocky Marciano, Bob Dillon and Henry Kissinger all hung out one night, there wouldn’t be a person alive or dead that wouldn’t know everything about it.
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Pieces Of A Woman Q&A
Synopsis: Martha (Vanessa Kirby) and Sean (Shia LaBeouf) are a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably when a home birth ends in unimaginable tragedy. Thus begins a yearlong odyssey for Martha, who must navigate her grief while working through fractious relationships with Sean and her domineering mother (Ellen Burstyn)
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OSCARS UPDATES – THE ACADEMY
In April, the academy relaxed its eligibility rules in response to the coronavirus outbreak to allow movies released directly to streaming to compete for Oscars for the first time.
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HUNGRY: 5 Questions for Filmmaker Jillie Simon
Thankfully, Jillie understood and she and I became social media friends. Recently, I saw her post that "Hungry" was going to become available VOD. So I reached out to say let's try this again! I'm very happy to have finally watched the film which stars Jillie as a quirky, soft spoken elementary school teacher, whose lunch gets stolen by one of her students - unexpectedly sending her down a path of activism.
