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Category: 2025
The Year 2025
Part 2: the WORD Q&A with BEFORE YOU Award Winning Director-Writer-Producer Lauren Melinda
Writer/Director/Producer Lauren Melinda is the founder of Simbelle Productions, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering women through film. “BEFORE YOU is a narrative short film based on true events …” – What are the true events? Is there something…
BEFORE YOU (2025) A Pièce de Résistance by Award-Winning Director Laura Melinda – Part 1

Non-linear story telling techniques, phantasmagoric and kaleidoscopic imagery, surrealistism and an evocative, minimalistic soundscape (with occasional nuances of a fetus heartbeat), and a dab of cinematic accoutrements will have slews and slews of audience members gasping and fidgeting (literally and figuratively) on the edge of their seats. – By Gregg W. Morris
Part 2 YADANG: THE SNITCH (2025)
YADANG: THE SNITCH (2025) Is a Rhapsodic, Kinetically Charged, Roller Coaster Ride of Relentless in Yer Face Action and Sanguineous Violence – Part 1

The film delves into the hidden world of criminal wheeling and dealing in South Korea, and centers on the enigmatic figure of Yadang, a major facilitator as a dime-dropping snitch in the underground drug trade. YADANG THE SNITCH Filmmakers insist that their movie is the first of its kind, setting it apart from conventional action crime film in South Korea. – Article, Review by Gregg W. Morris
Overlook Film Fest 2025: Audience and Jury Awards for the Largest Ever Overlook Film Fest – Part 2
Audience Awards Winner — Feature Film The Ugly Stepsister Director: Emilie Blichfeldt Cast: Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger Norway, 2024 In this warped, sinister spin on a Cinderella story, the lens…
Bernie Sanders & AOC – Fight the Oligarchs: “… Largest Rally We Ever Had”
“When I took the stage in Los Angeles yesterday (Saturday April 12, 2025) and looked out at the crowd, I could see people a half-mile away. Thirty-six thousand (36,000) people attended — it is the largest rally we have ever had.
And when I see the record crowds like the ones we had yesterday, or the ones in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, I believe it may just be possible that this country is on the brink of the political revolution we have been talking about for a long time.
These people are not showing up because I am running for something. There is no presidential campaign happening.
These are people attending in huge numbers who are not just saying NO to oligarchy, but they are saying YES to raising the minimum wage, YES to expanding Social Security, YES to guaranteeing health care as a human right, YES, to cutting the cost of prescription drugs, YES to paid family and medical leave, YES to equal pay for equal work, YES to more affordable housing, YES to making childcare and higher education affordable to all, YES to taking on the existential threat of climate change.
And most importantly they are saying YES to a government and an economy that works for all of us and not just the billionaire class and the Oligarchs.
Later today, we will be in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tomorrow we go to Boise, Idaho before returning to California on Tuesday for two rallies in districts held by Republicans and ending this leg of the tour in Missoula, Montana on Wednesday.
We will be streaming each rally on YouTube and Twitter, and I hope you will tune in to watch and share the links with your friends.

the WORD Editor Gregg W. Morris
Opening on Digital Platforms April 15, CALL OF THE VOID (2025). To Be or Not to Be: A Hoot? A Ding-Dong? A Hum-Dinger?

CALL OF THE VOID has received mixed reviews. It’s been pitched publicity-wise and marketing-wise and advertising-wise as a folk horror with Lovecraftian touches focusing on the grisly psychological impact of a strange hum and its connection to something otherworldly. – Review, Article by Gregg W. Morris
Bernie Sanders: Fighting Oligarchy Tour About to Be Launched

Bernie Sanders: If there was ever a time in American history when we need to come together, this is that time. Next week, as part of our Fighting Oligarchy Tour I, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive members of Congress, will be holding events in Nevada, Colorado and Arizona. And that’s just the beginning. There must be meetings and rallies in all 50 states, and they should take place over and over again. – Published by Editor, Writer Gregg W. Morris