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EARTH MAMA -Interview Savanah Leaf
With two children in foster care, Gia, a pregnant single mother pitted against the system, fights to reclaim her family. In her close-knit Bay Area community, she works to make a life for herself and her kids, in this singular debut feature from filmmaker Savanah Leaf...
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A THOUSAND AND ONE in theaters 3/31/23
A THOUSAND AND ONE follows unapologetic and free-spirited Inez (Teyana Taylor), who kidnaps her six-year-old son Terry from the foster care system...
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THE SWEETEST GIRL: A Forbidden Love Story 5 Questions for Filmmaker: Yanatha Desouvre
Lucias Goodman (Genji Jacques), a brilliant, seasoned, yet tormented law enforcement officer, has his life thrown into disarray when his loving wife, prominent and controversial journalist Margaret Goodman (Sandra Justice), is shot in broad daylight and ends up in the intensive care unit. Overwhelmed with guilt, while his wife is in a coma, Lucias is compelled to confess his most heart shattering secret.
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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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Come Away
I can accept the concept of both these tales having origins from the same family and then diverging into separate stories over time and retelling. For instance, although Alice carries around a big rabbit, she’s also given a tiny bell and told by her mother that it’s really a fairy named Tinker. The children have an overbearing, rich aunt Eleanor (Anna Chancellor) who wants to see they are brought up properly and she’s depicted as the Red Queen. The inciting incident of older brother David’s drowning is both a reason for younger brother Peter to feel it’s his duty to take his brother’s place and grow up quicker. And at…