The Independent’s Editor speaks with Gnimbin Ouattara, Associate Professor of History and International Studies at Brenau University on his new documentary Ali, mbomayé’s. The film centers on four African people who vividly remember the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” fight in Zaire, where Muhammad Ali, former heavyweight champion, defeated George Foreman, the undefeated world heavyweight champion in a knockout.
Is this how you want to be entertained? Senior critic Kurt Brokaw asks tough questions of a blatantly tough-on-the-senses program at this year’s New Directors/New Films. A handful of the full slate make his cut. The rest just cut.
…Minute (www.minutebyminute.co.uk) is a site whose centerpiece is a series of twenty-four one-minute films about Newham in East London, a dying industrial thruway that is now experiencing a resurgence. This…
<i>The Independent’s</i> Rebecca Reynolds talks with 10 to Watch filmmaker, Sharon Greytak, about the range of her work within film and painting, including her latest project, the narrative feature <em>Archaeology of a Woman</em>.
In this installment of Women in Film Portraits, Lauren Sowa profiles Alicia Slimmer, Director of the Award-Winning narrative feature Creedmoria. Slimmer discusses the making of the film, its musical influences, and its festival run. In addition, Slimmer shares lessons learned in Directing Creedmoria and offers advice to women working in the film industry today. Creedmoria will be released May 18th on Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play.
…are strong pieces of art and [which] just compel you.” At times, this has led to awkward conflicts with filmmakers who have made an aesthetically-unsatisfying film on a worthy subject,…
…Paul Tarantino (no relation to that other Tarantino, though, nevertheless, is currently finishing up his supernatural thriller Headhunter) explains, this could be “because [the independent scene] is far more integrated…