Surprising how much can fit into so little.
Opening Night Feature Peas And Carrots WORLD Premiere I USA, 2024, 96 min. DIRECTOR: Evan Oppenheimer Joey Wethersby is a typical 16-year-old New York girl — if your typical New Yorker had parents who were in a one-hit wonder band…
Cited by Moviemaker Magazine as one of the 2024 “Coolest Film Festivals” in the world, Dances With Films’ rapid growth in New York City along with its current place as L.A.’s top film festival for platforming truly independent filmmaking, makes DWF the only film festival organization offering “discovery” titles in major film festival events in both of those cities.
Showcasing brand new work by filmmakers on both coasts, most of which have yet to be seen or picked up for distribution has become a hallmark for Dances With Films’ Founders and Directors Leslee Scallon and Michael Trent. – Article by Gregg W. Morris
This film is about how a white family begins to fall apart after it adopts children of Romani descent from an orphanage. It’s a social drama set in Slovakia. The main character, Ingrid, a middle-aged woman, tries to escape a difficult financial situation by becoming a professional parent to a Romani girl.
the WORD: Can you tell me a little bit about the story (TADAMAIMA)? Director Robin Takao D’Oench: Of course. So that came about … like I mentioned before, my grandparents were incarcerated in the Japanese American internment camps. And coming…
His tour de force has been selected for consideration to compete in the 2024 Oscars. It’s a 12-minute short about incarcerated prison inmates who serve as firefighters in a special incarceration program and the film has garnered significant critical acclaim,…
Regardless of whatever first-responder, five-star action-adventure films, video and TV shows that audiences may have seen on big and small screens, FIRELINE will have them on the edge of their seats. Keep this in mind: FIRELINE is just 12 minutes long. – Reviews & Articles by Gregg W. Morris, Editor, Writer the WORD
Their approach to storytelling is highly interdisciplinary, blending traditional forms and new media to give a voice to unique perspectives and subcultures in innovating and daring ways.
A few grisly scenes that made me cringe but overall there were no goosebumps. I wasn’t spooked. The hair on my neck didn’t rise to the occasion. Nevertheless, this reviewer thinks what the filmmakers may have in mind for the long term – typical of independent filmmakers who make film shorts – could be a goosebumping-hair-raising SCREAM IF THINGS GO THEIR WAY.
– Article by Gregg W. Morris
“My hope is to blur the lines between the tangible and the ephemeral. By delving into Spaceman’s subconscious we are able to explore the cathartic nature of artistic creation and the ways in which it can offer a sense of purpose, as well as the danger and risk to one’s sense of self,” Director Abramovici is quoted as saying. “Spaceman is a unique film in many ways, including it being highly commercially viable while staying true to its artistic integrity. It’s a movie that audiences all over the world will relate to on so many levels.”
Article by Gregg W. Morris
HOW TO SUE THE KLAN is a riveting tour de force by Director Jon Beder for a number of reasons but here is one standout. The meticulous and unflinching way he made the film makes the 35-minute short feel as if it has the aesthetic sweep and scope of a feature-length movie resonating with African-American philosophy, history, culture, activism. And lore.
Review, article by Gregg W. Morris