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KAEPERNICK & AMERICA examines the man and his protest, exploring the remarkable conflict stirred by such a symbolic gesture. “It raised so many of the core issues that Black people deal with everyday in America,” says Co-Director Tommy Walker. Says Co-Director Ross Hockrow, “This was a massive story. One worthy of many different tellings. And I hope they tell this story many times, through many mediums, from all different perspectives.”
By Gregg W. Morris
The season ending coup de grâce came unmercifully April 25 in a 116-112 loss to the Atlantic division Boston Celtics – damn them all – in an ignominious 4-0 sweep eliminating the Nets in the first round. My readers are probably wonder what’s next. By Peter Fenoaltea.
In BFF 2021 juried competition program, 71 percent of the films were directed by women, 75 percent by people representing BIPOC or API, and 33 percent by people of the LGBTQIA+ community. Seventy percent of the films were written by women, 70 percent by BIPOC or API, 32 percent by people of the LGBTQIA+ community and 87 percent featured a female lead, 81 percent a BIPOC or API lead, and 30 percent an LGBTQIA+ lead.
Ninety-six percent of these films had a cast and crew that was made up of more than half of people from these same communities.
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Seventy percent of this year’s filmmakers are women and 70 percent are sharing a story about their own region. This program reflects the festival’s ethos of celebrating diversity of content and perspective. Select films in this year’s festival will be audio described for audience members who are blind or have low vision, and closed captions will be offered for deaf and hard of hearing members of the audience. Human Rights Watch 2022 highlights activism, featuring courageous individuals from around the world standing up to powerful forces and demanding change.
“We are thrilled to be back in theaters after two years away, bringing our audience a full slate of powerful films tackling urgent human rights issues including China, Russia, the climate crisis and reproductive rights,” John Biaggi, Director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, was quoted as saying in a press release. – This article by Gregg W. Morris
Human Rights Watch Film Festival returns to Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center in New York – and streaming to homes across the U.S. from May 20-26. This year’s festival includes 18 in-person screenings in NYC followed by Q&As featuring directors, film participants, and more. Opens with REBELLION, Friday May 20, 7p.m. + streaming online from May 20-26; Closing Night film, THE JANES, Thursday May 26, 7 p.m. and streaming online May 20-26. – By Gregg W. Morris
Within 3 years of moving into a new neighborhood, Candy Montgomery (Jessica Biehl) has an affair, eventually slays, unmercifully, her paramour’s wife (Betty Gore played by Melanie Lynskey), yet, is subsequently acquitted after being arrested and indicted for murder. Review by Luis De Leon.
City University of New York Chancellor Matos Rodriguez said students were no longer required to wear masks on campuses but this reporter does not feel safe without her mask on, write’s the WORD’s Nyya Collins. “And if I’m eating food in the third-floor student cafeteria or in other areas where students congregate, I try to maintain a 6-foot distance.” Another articles in a series about students and the reopening of Hunter for on-campus learning.Picture graphic, Nyaa Collins.
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Hunter has hundreds of student clubs, undergraduate and graduate, that provide opportunities for students at this commuter campus to enjoy a social life that can provide benefits similar to those for students at residential campuses. By Abigail Jean who is reporting on campus clubs as the WORD’s designated columnist.