A group of teenagers are street-cast in their neighborhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer.
2022 SXSW Film Festival Review: “A Vanishing Fog” Is A Cosmic Meditation On The Fragility Of The Planet, Though Its Pace And Approach Won’t Appeal To Everyone
“A Vanishing Fog” is based on a guardian of the mountains who is condemned by his fate and strives to protect the fragile ecosystem he inhabits while caring for his sickly father.
2022 Sundance Film Festival Review: The Intimacy Of Archival Footage, Home Movies, And Sinead O’Connor’s Powerful Voice Enhances “Nothing Compares”
The story of one singer’s phenomenal rise to worldwide fame, and how her iconoclastic personality resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on prophetic words and deeds across a five-year period (1987-1992), the film reflects on the legacy of this fearless trailblazer, through a contemporary lens.
2022 Berlin Film Festival Review: The Experimental “Cette Maison” Is Enigmatic And Thought-Provoking
Bridgeport, January 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship …
2022 Sundance Film Festival Review: “Riotsville, U.S.A.” Is An Exceptional Examination Of America’s Endless Security State
Welcome to Riotsville, a fictional town built by the US military. Using all archival footage, the film explores the militarization of the police and creates a counter-narrative to the nation’s reaction to the uprisings of the late ’60s.
2022 Sundance Film Festival Review: “Speak No Evil” Is A Cold And Timely Horror Film That Will Stay With You
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
2021 DOC NYC Film Festival Review: Avoiding Hagiography, “The Caviar Connection” Details A Resilient Journalist’s Remarkable Investigation
How do dictatorships like Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan launder their reputations from despotic to democratic? This investigative series exposes how Lady Gaga, luxury gifts, and scandalous private wealth are used to wield a new “caviar diplomacy” around the world.
2021 DOC NYC Film Festival Review: Despite Some Repetition, “Young Plato” Is A Touching Portrait Of An Inspirational Headmaster
Mr. McArevey is a visionary headmaster at a Catholic primary school in one of the toughest neighborhoods of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He loves Elvis and teaches his students to connect with their feelings while taking on “The Troubles.” In this exceptional portrait of a community still healing from trauma, we follow this educator extraordinaire …
2021 AFI Film Festival Review: “Petite Maman” Harbors Beaucoup Ambition
Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a treehouse.