“The humanitarian crisis in Mexico has reached a fever-pitch, even more intense than at the time the film was produced. And yet, much like the conquistador, the central government is trying to minimize the scope of the crisis and undermine the voices calling for justice and accountability.”
By Gregg W. Morris
Category: Archives
Destination of old published stories.
5Ws&H Film Review of Award Winning, Mind Blowing 499 – Part 1
499, Best Cinematography Award at Tribeca Film Festival 2000 and recent winner of the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs, directed by Rodrigo Reyes. Audiences should prepare themselves for a transtemporal nonfiction historical movie by a filmmaker taking on the challenge of wanting nothing less than the absolute truth.
By Gregg W. Morris.
72 Hour Shoot Out Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month With Its Special Fridays Project
1) A celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. 2) 72 Hour Shootout is a global filmmaking competition for everyone from novices to established filmmakers. 3) Asian American Film Lab – A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that ensures “… that stories and voices too often silenced in mainstream media are heard, not just as whispers, but as SHOUTS to the world.”
Gregg W. Morris
12 HOUR SHIFT – 2020 Tribeca Film Festival Review
Cowabunga! Audacious and raunchy with panache, this bite-me movie spits in your eyes – and winks at key moments. Because of deft direction and acting, 12 HOUR SHIFT sails on an elevated cloud of entertainment, mercifully and artfully sparing an audience fhe dregs of insipid slapstick it would have been in lesser hands.
By Gregg W. Morris
NO MORE WINGS Award Winning Director Abraham Adeyemi’s 5Ws & H Interview – Part 3, the End
The Scene That Won’t Be Spoiled in This Article: “In fact, we’re not in a situation where I’m sitting here thinking, oh my god, no one gets it. Because everyone does get it, in their own way, but it still had the impact I wanted it to have. And the only person who will ever know what the [inaudible 00:28:06] could’ve been is me, who can see it in their head.”
By Gregg W. Morris
NO MORE WINGS Award Winning Director Abraham Adeyemi’s 5Ws & H Interview – Part 2 of 3
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
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.
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.