The Birthday Gift was directed by Arianna Ortiz and stars Cruz Gonzalez-Cadel, Paula Pizzi, and Ignacio Serricchio. The film is based on Stephanie Alison Walker’s full-length play, The Abuelas, which premiered at Teatro Vista in Chicago in 2019. – Gregg W. Morris reviewing.
What follows should provide insight into why this reviewer was blown out of his seat. On the surface, the film looks deceptively simple in its early scenes. A convivial birthday dinner celebration between a mother, Soledad (played by Paula Pizzi),…
What’s It About This beaut directed by Kyra Bartley and created by the global charity Made By Dyslexia was designed as a deliberate campaign to “hijack search engine algorithms. That is, the filmmakers specifically named the film after the commonly…
The Famous Who Have Spoken Publicly About Having Dyslexia Or Are Widely Documented As Being Dyslexic Albert Einstein — Often associated with dyslexia, though historians debate whether he was formally dyslexic. Tom Cruise — Has discussed struggling with reading as…
“This Florida Film Festival was my first as the new Executive Director, and it exceeded what was already very high expectations on my part for an exciting, well-curated, and outrageously fun film event,” said Florida Film Festival Executive Director Wade Neal. “These award winners are wonderful representatives of the amazing films we screened and filmmakers we hosted throughout the fest.”
Revised April 10, Friday, 2026 An amazing short film that will make many in an audience feel like they were guests of an intimate full length film. So damn good that I can’t help but imagine, perhaps, that Director Lee…
The Harlem-based national media arts nonprofit is featured on CUNY-TV’s Frame by Frame: NYC Filmmakers in Focus Black Public Media is the premier focus of a Friday, March 13, episode at 2 p.m.,running through April 5 (check local listings). The…
## *A FRIEND OF DOROTHY* (2025) **Written & Directed by Lee Knight | Short Film | 21 minutes** The Story *A quietly beautiful short film about an unlikely friendship between Dorothy (Dame Miriam Margolyes), a sharp, witty, and increasingly frail…
DADDIES BOI generated significant positive responses during its festival run, with screenings at NewFest and Temecula. The creators are in early conversations with distributors, with aspirations to secure a streaming service acquisition. The planned series would consist of six to eight episodes of approximately 30 minutes each for the first season, with outlines developed for three seasons total. – Gregg W. Morris, the WORD
Synopsis Desperate to maintain their lifestyles as their youth, & options, fade, two aging sugar babies dive headfirst into the bizarre underworld of the “desire economy.” When a provocative new app called Daddies Boi promises fast cash and fresh connections,…