Here Before, 2021. Written and Directed by Stacey Gregg. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Martin McCann, Jonjo O’Neill, and Eileen O’Higgins. SYNOPSIS: After new neighbors move in next door, a bereaved mother begins to question her reality. In recent years Andrea Riseborough has quietly but confidently staked her claim as one of the most talented actresses of […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, 2021. Directed by Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler. Starring Jeffery Robinson. SYNOPSIS: ACLU lawyer Jeffery Robinson’s shattering talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism is interwoven with archival footage, interviews, and Robinson’s story, exploring the legacy of white supremacy and our collective responsibility to overcome […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Return: Life After ISIS
The Return: Life After ISIS, 2021. Directed by Alba Sotorra Clua. SYNOPSIS: Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana made worldwide headlines when they left their countries as teenagers to join ISIS. Now they want to return but their countries don’t want them back. Alba Sotorra Clua’s new documentary tackles a highly contentious, emotionally charged subject with […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – We Are As Gods
We Are As Gods, 2021. Directed by Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado. Starring Stewart Brand. SYNOPSIS: Stewart Brand, the pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, and modern environmentalism now urges people to use our god-like powers to fight extinction by reviving lost species. What seemingly begins as a standard-yet-compelling profile of futurist Stuart Brand soon enough […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Ludi
Ludi, 2021. Co-written and directed by Edson Jean. Starring Shein Mompremier, Alan Myles Heyman, Madelin Marchant, Success St. Fleur Jr., Kerline Alce, Plus Pierre, Patrice DeGraff Arenas, and Farah Larrieux. SYNOPSIS: Ludi, a hardworking and exhausted nurse, battles coworkers, clients, and one impatient bus driver to learn her self-worth as she chases the American Dream […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, 2021. Directed by Paul Sng, and Celeste Bell. Starring Celeste Bell. SYNOPSIS: The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey across the world and through her mother’s archives to reconcile their fraught relationship. From the outset it’s clear that Poly […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, 2021. Written and directed by Leah Purcell. Starring Leah Purcell, Rob Collins, Sam Reid, Jessica De Gouw, and Malachi Dower-Roberts. SYNOPSIS: A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away. The western genre is so seemingly, inextricably intertwined […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The End of Us
The End of Us, 2021. Directed by Henry Loevner and Steven Kanter. Starring Ben Coleman, Ali Vingiano, Derrick DeBlasis, Gadiel Del Orbe, Kate Peterman, Colin Weatherby, Caroline Kwan, Will Neff, Jesse Benjamin, and Claudia Restrepo. SYNOPSIS: After a savage breakup, two exes must continue living together when California issues its stay-at-home order for COVID-19. Now they’ll […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Through the Plexi-Glass: The Last Days of the San Jose
Through the Plexi-Glass: The Last Days of the San Jose, 2021. Directed by Liz Lambert. SYNOPSIS: Tells the story of a real estate deal’s unexpected detour – one that sparked the gentrification of Austin’s hippest neighborhood – and reveals layers of knotty, unanswerable questions, all more relevant than ever today. Can a documentary still be […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Luchadoras
Luchadoras, 2021. Directed by Paola Calvo and Patrick Jasim. SYNOPSIS: The courageous female wrestlers of Ciudad Juárez, a city known for its high murder rate against women – who fight in the ring and in their daily lives to redefine the image of what it means to be a woman in Mexico. While the overwhelming […]
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