He’s been a professor at the school, a staff writer for The New Yorker, an author, a documentary producer, and the director of the Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights.
KAEPERNICK & AMERICA Premieres at 2022 Tribeca Festival Thursday, June 9, 6 p.m. EST
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KAEPERNICK & AMERICA examines the man and his protest, exploring the remarkable conflict stirred by such a symbolic gesture. “It raised so many of the core issues that Black people deal with everyday in America,” says Co-Director Tommy Walker. Says Co-Director Ross Hockrow, “This was a massive story. One worthy of many different tellings. And I hope they tell this story many times, through many mediums, from all different perspectives.”
By Gregg W. Morris
Susan Norget
2022 Tribeca Film Festival
Representing documentaries at the Tribeca Festival this year from June 8 – 19. TFF 2022 Press screenings are for festival-accredited press only. DREAMING WALLS, Dir. Amélie van Elmbt & Maya Duverdier Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese Viewpoints (North American Premiere)…
Peter Fenoaltea’s Nets – The 2021-2022 Season Was What It Was
The season ending coup de grâce came unmercifully April 25 in a 116-112 loss to the Atlantic division Boston Celtics – damn them all – in an ignominious 4-0 sweep eliminating the Nets in the first round. My readers are probably wonder what’s next. By Peter Fenoaltea.
Jurors Selected for Geena Davis 8th Annual Bentonville Film Festival – 2022
In BFF 2021 juried competition program, 71 percent of the films were directed by women, 75 percent by people representing BIPOC or API, and 33 percent by people of the LGBTQIA+ community. Seventy percent of the films were written by women, 70 percent by BIPOC or API, 32 percent by people of the LGBTQIA+ community and 87 percent featured a female lead, 81 percent a BIPOC or API lead, and 30 percent an LGBTQIA+ lead.
Ninety-six percent of these films had a cast and crew that was made up of more than half of people from these same communities.
Abigail Jean’s QUEEN OF THE DESERT Film Review Short
Director Mary Ann Rotond, who won Best Woman Directed Short at the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival this year, believes that the power of shared humanity, which is the essence of empathy, can overpower the centrifugal forces she believes are at the core of racism and bigotry tearing away at America.
She tells her visually stunning movie short through an encounter of a young woman Black and proud who is hitch hiking and the long-haul trucker, White, who gives her a lift. Once inside the cab of the trucker’s rig, the woman discovers that the truck driver is enamored with the culture and mores represented by the Confederate flag that is a banner inside his rig. And the sparks fly. – Film short review by Abigail Jean.