Category: 2024

Read All About It: Tribeca Festival 2024 Audio Storytelling & Games Line Up

This year, Tribeca received a record-breaking number of audio storytelling submissions from talented creators worldwide. “In a risk-averse media environment and transformative period for the podcast industry, it is independent creators—and networks that champion their creative autonomy—who are making truly original audio,” said Tribeca Curator of Audio Storytelling Davy Gardner. “We’re highlighting inventive and fresh stories that are told on their own creative terms. Additionally, the program’s focus on the intersection of political activism and audio storytelling pays homage to the enduring legacy of activist, mentor, and dear friend, Paula Weinstein.” – By Gregg W. Morris

My Hometown — Chongqing

Chongqing is located in southwest China, covering 82,400 square kilometers, and more than 90 percent of the area is mountain land. After many tributaries of the Sichuan Basin merge into the Yangtze River in Chongqing, they create an outlet to connect to the outside world.
Article by WORD senior political writer Xinlin Tang, an Intrnational Student who lives in Chongqing.

Part 1: DEMON MINERAL Film Review & Q&A with Director Hadley Austin

“Well, I do think that this film is about an issue that of course, will outlast us, right? We are just links in a long chain of films, literally. There are other films that are about this issue that are in my film. I gave them homage and put clips in our film to show that we weren’t the first. We will not be the last. This is a forever problem in some ways,” says Director Hadley Austin in here interview with WORD Editor-Reviewer Gregg W. Morris.

Film Review
I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE: A Mindboggling, Mind-blowing, Mind-bending Film Experience

Reid Davenport:“All of the footage in I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE is shot by me from my literal point-of-view. The motivation for this is twofold: 1, to jar viewers with shots from a camera held by my spastic body or mounted to my wheelchair, and, 2, to unequivocally rebuke the norm of disabled people being seen and not heard In this film, viewers listen to my voiceover without ever seeing the entirety of my face.”

Review, articles by Gregg W. Morris