Director Moin Hussain has said that his debut feature, science fiction as it is, was the right film genre for him to explore the concept of mixed-race identity, as well as for this reason too: “There was a lot about Adam, the main character’s life — like his mixed heritage identity — that is close to mine.” The story telling essence of of SKY PEALS is transcendent and can almost hypnotically cause audiences to experience more and feel more than they might expect for a science fiction tale. – Article, Review – By Gregg W. Morris
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Film Review
THE COFFEE TABLE aka LA MESITA DEL COMEDOR (In Spanish with English subtitles) – An Enigmatic Tour de Force
A tour de force by a director who said he wanted to explore really scary things in his life that resulted from incredible bad luck, diabolical cruelty and the possibility of unfathomable terrible things happening in the future. Uh oh! – Article by Gregg W. Morris
Part 2 Dances With Films NYC 2024 Official Selections
Opening Night Feature Peas And Carrots WORLD Premiere I USA, 2024, 96 min. DIRECTOR: Evan Oppenheimer Joey Wethersby is a typical 16-year-old New York girl — if your typical New Yorker had parents who were in a one-hit wonder band…
Third Annual Dances With Films NYC Announces Its December 5-8 Festival – Part 1 of 2
Cited by Moviemaker Magazine as one of the 2024 “Coolest Film Festivals” in the world, Dances With Films’ rapid growth in New York City along with its current place as L.A.’s top film festival for platforming truly independent filmmaking, makes DWF the only film festival organization offering “discovery” titles in major film festival events in both of those cities.
Showcasing brand new work by filmmakers on both coasts, most of which have yet to be seen or picked up for distribution has become a hallmark for Dances With Films’ Founders and Directors Leslee Scallon and Michael Trent. – Article by Gregg W. Morris
Director Erik Jansan Q&A About His Award Winning THE PROFESSIONAL PARENT Film Short 2024
This film is about how a white family begins to fall apart after it adopts children of Romani descent from an orphanage. It’s a social drama set in Slovakia. The main character, Ingrid, a middle-aged woman, tries to escape a difficult financial situation by becoming a professional parent to a Romani girl.
Film Review & Article for CLASSIFIED: A 2024 Butt Kicking, Shoot-Em-Up, Spy Action Adventure With Mucho Macho Pyrotechnics and Slick Cinematography (As Good As If Not Better Than Any Jason Bourne Movies)
Acting? 4 stars over all. Special Effects? 4 stars, sometimes 4.5. Fight scenes (a lot of those)? As good as any in recent memory. Production values? Audiences will get their money’s worth. – By Gregg W. Morris
The Thug in This Pic Threatened to Stab Me on a MTA Bus Yesterday (October 28): Cops Called, Never Showed Up!
Part 3 of 3 – Q&A With Rogin Takao D’Oench, Director, FIRELINE
the WORD: Can you tell me a little bit about the story (TADAMAIMA)? Director Robin Takao D’Oench: Of course. So that came about … like I mentioned before, my grandparents were incarcerated in the Japanese American internment camps. And coming…
Part 2: Q&A With Rogin Takao D’Oench, Director, FIRELINE
His tour de force has been selected for consideration to compete in the 2024 Oscars. It’s a 12-minute short about incarcerated prison inmates who serve as firefighters in a special incarceration program and the film has garnered significant critical acclaim,…
Film Review and Q&A of FIRELINE (2024) Film Short – A Tour De Force That Will Have Audiences Cringing and Wincing, Twisting and Turning. Part 1 of 3
Regardless of whatever first-responder, five-star action-adventure films, video and TV shows that audiences may have seen on big and small screens, FIRELINE will have them on the edge of their seats. Keep this in mind: FIRELINE is just 12 minutes long. – Reviews & Articles by Gregg W. Morris, Editor, Writer the WORD