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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.
POPULATION PURGE Film Review
The 23rd New York Asian American Film Festival, July 12 -28
This year’s NYAFF features more than 90 new and classic titles from China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Mongolia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and beyond, with nine world premieres, 12 international premieres, and 38 North American premieres.
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
This World Premiere Directed by John Antonio James and Bill Mack Should Be Considered a Top Contender for Shout Out! Documentary of the Year
Film Review, Part 1 (Followups in the Works)
BLACK TABLE caught me off guard. I was swept up into the film so fast that I fumbled and stumbled shifting into reviewer mode. It took 30 minutes before I stopped swallowing and gulping scenes down, and a measure of…
BIG BREAKING FILM MAKING NEWS:
Film Lab Announces Theme of 20th Annual 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition
The most electrifying and boundary-breaking filmmaking competition of the year has launched. – By Gregg W. Morris
DRIVER: Director Nesa Azimi’s Beaut of a Documentary About Women Long Haul Truckers
“Cinema as a whole can be seen as a vehicle for empathy — in general, the goal of a film is to make the audience feel as if they have lived the experiences of the character onscreen, and can identify with their struggles,” writes H.R. Starzec on Medium.com. Starzec could have been writing about DRIVER.
“There’s a feeling of sensitivity and understanding at every level, and the filmmaker trusts that the audience is capable of extracting these feelings from film.” – A must see movie. Article by Gregg W. Morris