Author: Greggory W Morris

North American Premier
SUPPOSED Film Review

SUPPOSED Is in the NYAFF 2024 Category of “Original films that break away from formalistic and,or narrative conventions. Directed by Thanakorn Pongsuwan, Thailand, 2023 | North American Premiere. This is a must-see film that many will want to see more than once. – By Gregg W. Morris

Trump Accountability Alert (via MoveOn)

Tomorrow, June 27. the first 2024 presidential debate will be broadcast live on CNN. President Biden faces off with convicted felon former president Donald Trump, a bigot, racist, convicted rapist, miscreant and degenerate recently convicted on 34 felony counts for…

A Pensive, Mesmerizing Eulogy About the Brazilian Teammates of a Downhill Skateboarding Icon – Allysson Pastrana – Coming to Terms with their Existential Angst Over His Sudden Death During a Downhill Speeding Competition

Inspired by one of the film’s directors, this is a bitter-sweet tale about downhill skateboarders coming to grips with the existential grief they are experiencing over the death of a teammate who died in a competition. This film is tagged as a documentary-drama-sport-movie yet it’s filmmaking is infused with a fierce spirituality that is cosmic, surrealistic and transcendent.

– By Gregg W. Morris

Director Sabrina Van Tassel’s Bitter-Sweet, Melancholic Tour de Force Nearly Blew This Reviewer Out of His Seat

Woven in the thick, ethnographic fabric of Van Tassel’s poignant documentary narrative – in her pursuit of truth-the-whole-truth-&-nothing-but-the-truth – are sketches, vignettes, anecdotes, stories, customs, traditions, practices, sociopolitical analysis, and histories (regional and national).  The result is an extraordinary story that absolutely has to be told and re-told, seen and re-seen, echoed and reechoed: The genocide is real and so are efforts to end it once and for all.
– Article-Review by Gregg W. Morris

2024 Tribeca Festival Announces Competition Winners –
Part 1

“After a banner year of Tribeca programming, I do not envy our jurors’ task of selecting this year’s winners,” said Tribeca Festival Director and SVP of Programming Cara Cusumano. “I’m delighted to see they’ve chosen to honor a diverse, international, adventurous group of films that truly reflect the Tribeca spirit. We can’t wait to continue to follow and support all these films’ journeys into the world.” –
Article by Gregg W. Morris