Innovative feature films and specialty short showcases, industry talk backs, and more. LESFF Judges include Rosario Dawson, Joe Quesada, Luke Cage,Matt FX, Tamra Simmons, Sam Levy.
Author: Greggory W Morris
YOU DON’T NOMI Tribeca Film Festival 2019 Review
Attention Jeffrey McHale: YOU DON’T NOMI is a smartly done, five stars plus debut for your first feature documentary, so you Hang 10 for the waves of approbation and disapprobation coming your way for your derring-do to step into the cinematic maelstrom of SHOWGIRLS.
The Human Rights Watch 30th Anniversary Film Festival Presents Brave Cinematic Works that Challenge the Rise of Authoritarianism and Oppression, June 13-20
As racism and xenophobia continue to rise within the highest echelons of power, this year’s festival presents cinematic works that expose and humanize cases of legalized and legitimized oppression of the disenfranchised that demand the world’s attention.
XY CHELSEA 2019 Tribeca Film Festival Review – 90 Minutes of Riveting Narrative
A superb, transcendent who-what-when-where-why-and-how about Chelsea Manning before and after her court-martial, 35-year-sentencing and subsequent pardoning by President Obama regarding her mind-bending leaking of 750,000 classified and unclassified military and diplomatic documents to Wikileaks way back when
Red Carpet, INNA DE YARD: THE SOUL OF JAMAICA, Tribeca Film Festival 2019
The goal of this eponymous documentary is to come to grips with a musical style, reggae, like other big music documentaries, such as Buena Vista Social Club, Sugar Man, or Amy and at the same time tell of the intimate lives of the legendary personalities that created it. The film is built around a series of portraits, and gives star billing to the reggae music that permeate sit from beginning to end.
2019 Tribeca Film Festival LUCKY GRANDMA Red Carpet – Part 1, the Unedited
An ornery, chain-smoking, newly widowed 80-year-old Grandma (Tsai Chin) lives an independent life that creates concerns for her family. One day, Grandma decides to head to the casino after a local fortune teller (Wai Ching Ho) says great fortune is coming her way. Boy, was she in for a surprise.
2019 Tribeca Film Festival Red Carpet THE DOG DOC
Dr. Marty Goldstein is one of the people responsible for building a mecca for holistic care, combining conventional medical training with cutting edge alternative therapies. Dr. Marty’s deeply empathetic philosophy offers a vital example of how improving overall health rather than merely treating disease can be transformative for all living beings.
XY CHELSEA Red Carpet, Tribeca Film Festival 2019
Documentary is about Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. Army soldier and intelligence analyst convicted of leaking classified U.S. documents to WikiLeaks about the torture and abuse of detainees and the unreported deaths of over 15,000 civilians involving the U.S. military. While imprisoned, Manning, a trans woman, also began to transition medically.
2019 Tribeca Film Festival Hilights
Estimated attendance of more than 146,000 people estimated attendance of more than 146,000 people to 618 screenings and Talks, and the Virtual Arcade and Tribeca Cinema360.
to 618 screenings and Talks, and the Virtual Arcade and Tribeca Cinema360.
Interview: Award Winning SCHEME BIRDS Filmmakers, Tribeca Film Festival 2019
A coming of age documentary film unlike any coming of age film in recent memory. SCHEME BIRD centers on Scottish teenager Gemma and the people in her life trying to survive in an impoverished town.