During this short film beaut, audiences may overlook or even forget the things they’ve come to expect in regular feature films but those missing ingredients enhance this superb short, things such as a small cast, minimalist dialogue for much of the film and the fact that the film short isn’t in the preferred widescreen format. – Review by Gregg W. Morris
January 6 marked four years since the January 6th Insurrection, a dark day in American history when MAGA extremists revealed their contempt for democracy. That attack wasn’t just a moment; it was a warning about the dangers we still face.To understand how we got here, we invite you to revisit our powerful film, Suppressed and Sabotaged. This documentary reveals the widespread voter suppression that undermined the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election and shows how those same tactics continue to drive the anti-democratic MAGA movement.
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2020 Social Justice Film Festival: Featurrette Documentary Silver Prize for Suppressed: The Fight to Vote
2019 Teaneck Intl Film Festival: Winner Juried Award Best Short for Suppressed: The Fight to Vote
2019 American Insight’s Free Speech Award for Suppressed: The Fight to Vote
2019 (In)Justice for All Film Festival: Impact Award Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prison
2018 Culver City Film Festival: Best Original Screenplay Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prison
2018 Justice on Trial Film Festival Best Short Film for The Bail Trap: American Ransom
2014 Media for a just society award for Our Turn to Dream
2014 LA Webfest outstanding reality/documentary series for Prison Profiteers
2014 LA Webfest outstanding writing in reality/documentary series for Prison Profiteers
2013 Media for a just society award for Law and Disorder
2009 Bronze Telly for This Brave Nation
2008 Laurel Awards
Publisher, Editor Gregg W. Morris
THE PEOPLE’S JOKER features a superhero-sized cast of celebrated comedic talent in both voice and live action roles behind the kaleidoscope of characters that lampoon the iconic heroes and villains of the DC comics’ world. It features cameos from comedy multi-hyphenate Tim Heidecker, award-winning actor Bob Odenkirk, Maria Bamford (Netflix’s Big Mouth, Adult Swim’s Teenage Euthanasia), and Scott Aukerman (Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis co-creator and host of the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast), with Vera Drew, Lynn Downey (Amazon Prime Video’s Daisy Jones & The Six), Nathan Faustyn (SADDLED), and Kane Distler, in his film debut as Mister J.
Nominations: The Gotham Awards 2024 – Breakthrough Director (Vera Drew); The Indie Awards 2024 – Best Narrative Feature; The Indie Awards 2024 – Outstanding Storytelling Craft; The Indie Awards 2024 – Outstanding Technical Achievement; Early Winner: Narrative Features Committee Renegade Award; Featured in mid-year Best of 2024 lists in Variety magazine. – Article, Review, Commentary by Gregg W. Morris.
A tour de force by a director who said he wanted to explore really scary things in his life that resulted from incredible bad luck, diabolical cruelty and the possibility of unfathomable terrible things happening in the future. Uh oh! – Article by Gregg W. Morris
A powerful documentary bringing to life the brave testimony of writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused former President Donald Trump of sexual abuse. In a landmark legal case, Trump was held liable for sexual abuse and defamation, with a court ordering him to pay $83.3 million in damages.
{Facebook removed link to a Medium.com article I wrote about the documentary because I used the word “Riveting” in describing the film.}
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Caveat Lector, Audiences Beware. This film is a cosmic, hyperbolic extravaganza with 92-minutes of unrelenting, existential pounding on one’s mind, body and soul. Article-Review by Gregg W. Morris, the WORD.
THE SECRET ART OF HUMAN FLIGHT is a cinematic tour de force that will have audience members resonating with emotion for days and days after they’ve seen the film. “My hope,” Director H.P. Mendoza writes in a statement, “is that viewers can lose themselves in this story and meditate on their own lives, their own phobias and roadblocks, and their connections to other people – maybe even to the other people in the theater. And even if after viewing this film you run back into isolation for whatever reason, I hope that – for a moment – I connected with you.”– Review, Article by Gregg W. Morris.
Siddhant Adlakha, Variety: “As the game grows more complex, WAR GAME invokes footage not only of January 6 but of other flashpoints in American history involving protest, state violence or religious extremism — Kent State, the MOVE bombings, Waco and so on — building a tapestry of the past, as a chilling reminder of what might happen if warnings go unheeded.”
Talk about Jungian Synchronicity (events are chance occurrences from a statistical point of view, but meaningful in that they may seem to validate paranormal ideas) and with April 5, 2024 “Breaking News” headlines about President Biden and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s phone chat-chat, timing couldn’t be better. – Article by WORD editor Gregg W. Morris. Review in the works.