Beatific and surrealistic, scene-segues of the older Issac & Jude to the younger Issac & Jude and back, glow effervescently, figuratively speaking. These weren’t flashbacks, that was for sure. At the time of the interview, however, the writer-reviewer was fumbling, like a misfiring engine, with questions about what he had seen. The director resolved his dismay.
By Gregg W. Morris
Author: Greggory Morris
NO MORE WINGS Award Winning Director Abraham Adeyemi’s 5Ws & H Interview – Part 1 of 3
NO MORE WINGS Award Winning Director Abraham Adeyemi: “I always had this story [in mind], that I’d always thought was really good. And I didn’t have a script, but I just always thought to myself, if I write a story about these two people, who, growing up in the exact same way, but their lives have turned out very differently, what would that look like. If they’re meeting, where would they meet up? What’s the one thing that keeps them together? And it’s this chicken shop.”
By Gregg W. Morris.
2020 TFF
Can a Short Film a Day Can Keep Anxiety Away?
And so: STAND TALL, FIERCE COMPETITION, MAKE THE CALL, RELATIONSHIP REWIND, HIGH AS THE SKY, FANTASY MEETS REALITY, MEET THE CUTE ON THE MTA, MAKING FRIENDS, PUTTING IN THE WORK, MOMENT OF CALM, BACK TO BASICS, DIVE IN, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, NOT YOUR AVERAGE FAIRY TALE … and many, many more … – By Gregg W. Morris
Tribeca Film Festival 2020 Short, NO MORE WINGS Film Review – Interview with Director Abraham Adeyemi Coming Soon
NO MORE WINGS is 10 evocative minutes of eloquent story telling with poetic panache and a visceral and intellectual resonance lasting long after the film ends. It tells of two 20-plus-somethings meeting-up for a fav repast of six wings and chips in Morley’s, a South London fried chicken shop. Issac and Jude are savvy, down-to-earth no-nonsense class acts with a dash of chutzpah. You will want to see this film more than once.
By Gregg W. Morris
Tribeca Film Festival 2020, Year of the Pandemic News – 2
Tribeca Film Festival 2020, Year of the Pandemic News – 1
Full list of films and filmmakers available. Note This: the WORD editor Gregg W. Morris had this great interview with Director/Writer Abraham Adeyemi of NO MORE WINGS. which won the TFF 2020 award for best short (a mind-blowing 10 minutes). The review and the article are in the works.
Major Film Festivals Across the World Join with YouTube to Announce We Are One: A Global Film Festival Starting May 29
NEW YORK, NY– April 27, Monday, 2020 – Tribeca Enterprises and YouTube jointly announced today We Are One: A Global Film Festival, an unprecedented 10-day digital film festival exclusively on YouTube, bringing together an international community of storytellers to present festival programming for free to audiences around the world. Set to begin on May 29 on YouTube.com/WeAreOne .
This Virus Kills Too
The Film Lab (TM) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization devoted to the promotion and support of gender and ethnic parity in film and television programming.
It also runs the famous 72 Hour Shootout (TM), an annual, high-profile filmmaking competition organized with the support of ABC, NBC, CrossingsTV, Time Warner, Asian CineVision, the Asian American International Film Festival and many others, through which it works to ensure that stories and voices too often silenced in mainstream media are heard, not just as whispers, but as SHOUTS to the world.
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Tribeca Film Festival 2020 Short NO MORE WINGS – Directed by Abraham Adeyemi
Article, review in the works. A synopsis: The enchanting tale of friendship treads between both past and present as two friends dine in a chicken shop and showing one, the once promising and talented Jude, has struggled to fulfill his potential. NO MORE WINGS is a nostalgic love letter to Writer and Director Abraham Adeyemi’s adolescence. “No More Wings does an absolutely wonderful job of taking a scenario that is extremely grounded and using the form to imbue it with an elevated sense of emotion and spirituality,” Oscar Winner Barry Jenkins (MOONLIGHT) is quoted as praising the film.
By Gregg W. Morris
Staring Down COVID-19 the Avid Way
“Avidly Raps” is a solo rap venture by Avid Maldonado, 27, a former student of Prof. Gregg W Morris. It was clear that he was destined for big things.
By Gregg W. Morris