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Filmmaker Menelek Lumumba Interview: 1 ANGRY BLACK MAN
Tinsel & Tine’s 5 QUESTION INTERVIEW with FILMMAKER MENELEK PATRICE LUMUMBA 1 ANGRY BLACK MAN By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor In preparation for the 7th Annual BlackStar Film Festival (August 2-5, 2018), I sent interview questions to many of the filmmakers screening short films; because it seemed to me since their work is shown in blocks, it would be nice to highlight each individual director and/or writer. Click HERE for Short Interviews with Shorts Filmmakers.But that doesn’t mean I can’t give some love and attention to a filmmaker debuting his first feature length film – Menelek Lumumba’s film “1 Angry Black Man” had its World Premiere in Philadelphia during #BlackStar18.…
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BLACKSTAR Film Festival Interviews with Filmmakers 2018
The 7th Annual BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia gets underway shortly (August 2-4, 2018) for a fun highlight of the festival, I asked several of the filmmakers screening short films to answer the same 5 Questions. Check out their enlightening answers.
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Interview with PHILADELPHIA ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL Director ROB BUSCHER
Tinsel & Tine’s Look at : the 10th Annual PHILADELPHIA ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL PAAFF Conference By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor POST UPDATE 11/12/17 ORIGINAL POST 11/4/17 Philadelphia Asian American Film & Filmmakers is a volunteer run nonprofit organization founded in 2008 to educate and expose the Philadelphia region to films by and about Asian Americans through year round events, primarily the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF17) November 9-19, 2017. This year’s Festival highlights the long but largely unheralded history of Asian Americans in the film industry; beginning with the opening night film, a screening of the rarely seen and recently restored silent film The Dragon Painter (1919), starring…
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Philly Interview: DAMIEN CHAZELLE – LA LA LAND
By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay Damien Chazelle, the writer/director of Whiplash, and his collaborative partner, composer Justin Hurwitz have created a beguiling, unapologetically romantic homage to classic movie musicals in LA LA LAND (opening film of the 25th Philadelphia Film Festival – click for T&T coverage). The opening scene, a single continuous shot shows a traffic jam in L.A., where all of the drivers emerge from their vehicles and break into song and dance. The film shouts to the audience that this is a throwback to old-school Hollywood musicals, thus, resulting in the audience understanding to view the film with a suspension of disbelief from the beginning.…
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Interview with TYLER PERRY
By Le Anne Lindsay I’ve now interviewed both Ava DuVernay and Tyler Perry, do you realize how close that puts me to being in Oprah’s sphere! Photo credit: Allied Philly Tyler Perry was in Philadelphia earlier this month to promote his latest movie Boo! A Madea Halloween. He walked the red carpet and introduced the film to an enthusiastic Philly audience. The next day, just a few select outlet, (yours truly included!) and the young kid who sung for the Pope, Bobby Hill, got a chance to individually meet and chat with the entertainment mogul at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. T&T: I read somewhere that when you directed your first…
