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
Category: 2024 Film, Video, Moving Images
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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
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.
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…
CLAWFOOT (2024) Film Review
Fifty-sixty minutes and a few seconds into CRAWFOOT, the cinematic panache and derring-do of Director Micheal Day and Writer April Wolfe stunned this reviewer-writer who thought that for the first for 56-minutes and a few seconds that he was watching…
NIGHT OF THE HARVEST (2024) Q&A Part 2 of 2
The Lives of Independent Filmmakers the WORD Is there anything you might’ve done different? Jessica I do think, yeah, there are moments of that. The first thing that comes to mind for me is that I would’ve loved to had…
NIGHT OF THE HARVEST – A Cannily Made Low Budget Movie Bristling With the Panache and Moxie of a Big Budget Film. Caveat Lector: This Award Winning Film Can Freak the Bejesus Out of Audiences
Do I like this film? Rather, it’s more accurate to state that I was possessed by this film early on in the story-telling and was stunned to learn that I was possessed, that my mind, body and soul had been seduced by incredible story telling that made me suspend belief beyond belief. – Gregg W. Morris
2024 TASTE IN MUSIC Q&A Interview of Director Kyle Sevenoaks About His TASTE IN MUSIC Film Short
A WORD 5Ws & H interview of Director Kyle Sevenoaks about his film. – By Gregg W. Morris
2024 Hollyshorts Film Fest
A Hell of A Must-See
HOW TO SUE THE KLAN is a riveting tour de force by Director Jon Beder for a number of reasons but here is one standout. The meticulous and unflinching way he made the film makes the 35-minute short feel as if it has the aesthetic sweep and scope of a feature-length movie resonating with African-American philosophy, history, culture, activism. And lore.
Review, article by Gregg W. Morris
2024 Film Review of WAR GAME – Now Playing at Film Forum, New York City – Definitely a Must-See
Washington Post Excerpt – “President Donald Trump’s assault on American democracy began in the spring of 2020, when he issued a flurry of preemptive attacks on the integrity of the country’s voting systems.” – Article by Gregg W. Morris