I have found the cinematic arts to be the sphere where I search for my identity, my voice. I decided to take this journey to the frigid streets of Park City, Utah, to learn from the Latin American and Latino/a voices at Sundance.
+ More“The Driver Is Red” is at the same time educational, aesthetically pleasing, and suspenseful! The voiceover narration draws you in from the start, and the sketch animation aesthetic remarkably accentuates the clandestine nature of the story.
+ MoreOften a documentary can be used to create awareness and focus the conversation in the midst of what seems like a tide of status−quo maintaining market forces. “The Devil We Know” seeks to take on one of these large issues, and the task is quite daunting indeed.
+ More“A Boy, A Girl, A Dream” is so much more than a single shot. It is a portrait of hope, despair, and of hard-won love all set against the backdrop of election night 2016.
+ MoreDirector Marina Zenovich looks to use the traditional biopic format to do two things: on the one hand shed some light on the tragedy and reveal a little bit more of who Robin Williams really was, and on the other, to celebrate the life and work of such an amazing performer.
+ MoreThrough spoken word, beatboxing, dance, and imaginative indie set design that would make David Lynch jealous, the film provides a complex glimpse of a young black woman, her interests, and her opinions.
+ MoreIn “Human Affairs,” a New York power couple – playwright Sidney and his fiancée/lead actress Lucinda – want to have a child. With other options exhausted, they turn to a surrogate to help them become the parents they dream of being.
+ MoreAccording to Director RaMell Ross, images are always in dialogue with previous images, and by displaying what is essentially a montage of lived experience, day to day moments, often mundane but nearly always poetic, he seeks to re−represent the black experience in America.
+ More“ZIKR” is a VR experience that was deeply moving, extraordinarily vulnerable, and something I’ll not soon forget.
+ MoreNadia Murad and her people are grieving while the world at large seeks to avoid focusing on that which makes us uncomfortable. It is important that we all seek to push back against this phenomenon. Perhaps we can help lift some of that incredible weight off her shoulders.
+ MoreIt has taken almost an entire season of growth, but now the crew of the USS Discovery is finally ready to perform as a fully functioning unit — and more than that, as family.
+ MoreGreta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut “Lady Bird” was one of the best thing that happened to audiences in 2017.
+ More“Man on Fire” is a 2018 Slamdance Film Festival documentary about the bold final act of Rev. Charles Moore, a retired Methodist minister who lit himself on fire in June 2014 to protest the racism of his hometown of Grand Saline, Texas. While in Park City, I had the honor of speaking with the film’s Director and Producer.
+ MoreDirector Michael Dweck is able to impart a very palpable impression of what is to love in and around these tracks, and why the loss of so beautiful a thing would be such a tragedy.
+ More“When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die.”
These words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer may have reverberated in Rev. Charles Moore’s mind when he got out of his car, knelt down, and lit himself on fire in a parking lot on June 23, 2014.
Just as skateboarding seems to transcend the sum of its parts, filmmaker Bing Liu has crafted a work of transcendent film out of the trappings of what might seem at first like a skate video.
+ More“A Thousand Thoughts” is not merely a film. Rather, it is a one−time and wholly unique experience, part live performance, part lecture, and part documentary about modern string quartet, Kronos, performing a live score for the film about themselves.
+ MoreReviews of “Tyrel” and “A Futile and Stupid Gesture” along with Roslyn Hernandez’ impressions of Sundance 2018.
+ MoreIt is the rare film that offers its actors room to be fully themselves, and it’s the ideal comedy to capture life in contemporary Los Angeles.
+ MoreApart from the low temperatures, I have experienced the environment of the festival as an interesting mix of friendly confusion, great discussions, excitement, encouraged film-geeking, and gratitude towards the incredibly patient shuttle drivers and volunteers.
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