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Tribeca: 5 Questions for the Women of LIZA ANONYMOUS
"Liza Anonymous" is a short film premiering at Tribeca 2021, directed by Aubrey Smyth winner of the Grand Prize at Moet Moment Film Festival; Screenwriter Leah McKendrick (Summer Lovin', the Grease prequel) and stars Actress Danielle Beckmann as all the faces of Liza, a lonely Millennial finding comfort in the confessional spaces of local anonymous groups, only what she's really got to confess will make her an outsider. Tinsel & Tine sent the 3 creatives each a set of 5 Questions to answer about the film and what they each bring to it.
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SPECIALish Jessica Watkins
I got a chance to screen Jessica Watkins' comedic feature length documentary ‘SPECIALish’ showing her walk across the United States over the course of 8 months. Punctuated by her standup comedy about her experience at stops in clubs along her way. First off, I admire Jessica for all the walking and camping she did do, because I know for me, I'd be lucky to...
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Promising Young Woman
CANDY COATED AND CUNNING Little do they know she has taken on the secret identity of a feminist avenger! Nightly going to bars and clubs seemingly drunk and defenseless, testing men to see if they will protect a woman in an inebriated state or take full advantage. The next day her victims are accounted for in a notebook with a red or blue mark, of which the color coding is never clarified...
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Blow The Man Down
The film starts off moody and atmospheric with fisherman singing sad songs in a small town off the coast of Maine. Priscilla (Sophie Lowe) and Mary Beth (Morgan Saylor) have just buried their mother Mary Margaret Connolly and it seems all the town has come for her repast; including Mary Margaret’s life long girlfriends, all now in their 70’s – Susie Gallagher (June Squibb), Doreen Burke (Marceline Hugot), and Gail Maguire (Annette O’Toole). We find out later one important old friend is absent, Enid Nora Devlin (Margo Martindale) and the why is the crux of the story.
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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,…
