Short films have become popular because they can provide a cost-effective learning experience for filmmakers and because of increasing audience diversity – though SEVAP/MITZVAH has the look and feel of a feature. That train of thought has this writer-reviewer imagining Director/Writer Sabina Varjraca’s 17-minute virtuoso SEVAP/MITZVAH is in the works to become a SEVAP/MITZVAH feature film. – Review by Gregg W. Morris
Category: Short Films
Surprising how much can fit into so little.
Part II of 2023 Film Review, PRUNING, the Preternaturally Audaciously Made Film Short by Director Lola Blanc & Starring Madeline Brewer that Blew This Reviewer’s Mind
Background Information, Including PRUINING PR Apparatus Info Filmmaker, actor, musician and co-host of Trust Me, Lola Blanc is premiering her film, Pruning at the Palm Springs Shortfest 2023. PRUNING is being publicized as a psychological horror film about a right-wing commentator…
One of the Best of the Best 2023 Must-See Movies
PRUNING, the Preternaturally Audaciously Made Film Short by Director Lola Blanc & Starring Madeline Brewer: It Blew This Reviewer’s Mind – Part I
The best of the best must-see movies in 2023. – Review by Gregg W. Morris, who shakes his head every time he watches PRUNING.
AMERICAN SIKH Review: “… Dedicated to Every American Who’s Felt Unwelcome Or Unwanted”
AMERICAN SIKH is the visual memoir of a crusading raconteur with the soul and essence of an empath. Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth are conveyed with such exceptional cinematic-animated finesse in this film that the result…
2023 Film Review of DADDY ISSUES, Which Premiers at 2023 Tribeca Fest in June
Like father, like son. 🤣 The apple doesn’t fall from the tree. 🤪 What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. 👹 DADDY ISSUES is a deftly made, dry-humored cinematic gem with superb cinematography minimalistic in style but…
STREET REPORTER Film Review – An Award Winning Cinematic Gem 26 Minutes Long, Packing the Wallop of a Full Length Award Winning Documentary
Director Laura Waters Hinson’s STREET REPORTER is a captivating documentary about homelessness featuring a homeless person cum photo journalist pursuing the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about homeless in the Nation’s Capitol. Advocacy, investigative and ethnographic journalism are fused transcendently in this 26-minute film short packing the wallop of those full length, five-star documentary films. Critics raves’ and reviews about this award winning film aren’t shy calling it as an Oscar contender.
Film Short Review
An Astonishing Cinematic Experience That Can Leave Audiences Breathless
The astonishing way that the filmmakers can teleport audiences back to that day in 1963 will have audiences on the edge of their seats, literally and figuratively, every time they decided that they have to see it one more time. – By Gregg W. Morris
Abigail Jean’s QUEEN OF THE DESERT Film Review Short
Director Mary Ann Rotond, who won Best Woman Directed Short at the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival this year, believes that the power of shared humanity, which is the essence of empathy, can overpower the centrifugal forces she believes are at the core of racism and bigotry tearing away at America.
She tells her visually stunning movie short through an encounter of a young woman Black and proud who is hitch hiking and the long-haul trucker, White, who gives her a lift. Once inside the cab of the trucker’s rig, the woman discovers that the truck driver is enamored with the culture and mores represented by the Confederate flag that is a banner inside his rig. And the sparks fly. – Film short review by Abigail Jean.
Luis De Leon’s THE QUEEN OF THE DESERT Film Short Review
QUEEN OF THE DESERT is Director Mary Ann Rotondi’s creative endeavor to make a movie commentary about what she believed are the dynamic social and political forces menacing this country, writes the WORD’s Luis De Leon. Rotondi, who won Best Woman Directed Short at the 2022 Poppy Jasper International Film Festival, uses two characters of different gender, ethnicity, personal values as well as social and political mores to express her point of view that the power of people’s shared humanity can ameliorate the centrifugal forces she believes are tearing away at America.
In other words, people living in the United States of America need to empathize more with people who don’t appear to be like them.
SHADOW BIRD (SONSI) Film Short Review
Those on the lookout for films with the cinematic magic to raise their spirits during these COVID-19 surges should consider this mesmerizing hallucinogenic & hypnagogic tale by Director Sivita Singh. It can make you feel as if you are experiencing a loopy de loop of phantasmagoric proportions during these perilous days. By Greggory W. Morris