Emerging media major David Dekle-Hills, who lives in Howard Beach, Queens, said he experienced a period when he lost passion for his favorite endeavors but eventually brushed off the apathy. Film major Kedar Young, 22, who lives in Yonkers, said he found ways to be productive during the pandemic. Senior Sumaya Nasir, 22, said her friends really have helped her.
By Seon Pollard
Sitting in a corner in my parent’s basement, headphones to block out the sounds of footsteps stomping above me, I may be staring at a collage of names with occasional faces mixed in, and muting and un-muting myself to speak. This is what my “classroom” is like during the COVID-19 pandemic. And I detest it.
By Marlena Freitas
NYT: “Opinion Video producer Alexander Stockton spent several days reporting at the Valleywise Medical Center in Phoenix.”
By GreggWMorris
At the Pepsi® Super Bowl Halftime Show, Weeknd sung, performed, dizzied 25,000 patrons. An inquiring mind would wonder how many made it home without taking that COVID bug home with them.
Article by Entertainment Editor Jack McAllister.
It’s easy for this reviewer to imagine that everyone in an audience wherever DAVID streams is standing and applauding as this film comes to an end. This film can knock a smile off your face in one shot and immediately return it the next. In DAVE, his first, Director Zach Woods’ deft filmmaking can make you feel that you have to see it more than once.
By Gregg W. Morris
1) A celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. 2) 72 Hour Shootout is a global filmmaking competition for everyone from novices to established filmmakers. 3) Asian American Film Lab – A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that ensures “… that stories and voices too often silenced in mainstream media are heard, not just as whispers, but as SHOUTS to the world.”
Gregg W. Morris
Beatific and surrealistic, scene-segues of the older Issac & Jude to the younger Issac & Jude and back, glow effervescently, figuratively speaking. These weren’t flashbacks, that was for sure. At the time of the interview, however, the writer-reviewer was fumbling, like a misfiring engine, with questions about what he had seen. The director resolved his dismay.
By Gregg W. Morris
NEW YORK, NY– April 27, Monday, 2020 – Tribeca Enterprises and YouTube jointly announced today We Are One: A Global Film Festival, an unprecedented 10-day digital film festival exclusively on YouTube, bringing together an international community of storytellers to present festival programming for free to audiences around the world. Set to begin on May 29 on YouTube.com/WeAreOne .
The Film Lab (TM) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization devoted to the promotion and support of gender and ethnic parity in film and television programming.
It also runs the famous 72 Hour Shootout (TM), an annual, high-profile filmmaking competition organized with the support of ABC, NBC, CrossingsTV, Time Warner, Asian CineVision, the Asian American International Film Festival and many others, through which it works to ensure that stories and voices too often silenced in mainstream media are heard, not just as whispers, but as SHOUTS to the world.
