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.
Category: 2024 Film, Video, Moving Images
Film Stuff
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
WILL I SEE YOU AGAIN? (2024) Film Short Review – Hint: This Meticulous, Sublime 24-Minute Short Can Whisk Your Breath Away, It’s That Good
This film will captivate audiences with its incredible emotional depth and compelling narrative. Hint: 7,997 views were registered July 1 on the YouTube trailer site. The meat of the story are the polygraph scenes of the two men dueling and dealing with five questions put them: And they better not lie or there goes the inheritance. Inheritance? This reviewer is providing one of the tantalizing questions; to do more would be a spoiler. – By Gregg W. Morris
