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With the Academy Awards having a reputation bogged by the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, this year’s 93rd annual ceremony has us sitting at the edge of our seats as we await the winners throughout our community from actors and actresses to screenwriters and directors. The pre-show hsoted by Lil Rel Howry and Ariana DeBose got the inside scoop from tonight’s nominees with performances by Celeste, H.E.R. and Leslie Odom, Jr., who’s song is up for an Academy Award nomination tonight. Nominations t...

Nomadland leads Oscar winners with three BANG Showbiz 3 hrs ago Bang Showbiz © Bang Showbiz Nomadland wins big Nomadland won the nights biggest honour at Sundays (25.04.21) Academy Awards when it was named Best Picture. The movie scooped the coveted accolade ahead of shortlisted films The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Mank, Minari, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal, and The Trial of the Chicago 7, capping a highly successful evening for the Great Recession drama...

Fashion is one of the realms over which celebrities are prominent figures, so it makes sense that many stars are using their red carpet platform to draw attention to things they really care about. It’s the place where seemingly simple fashion rebellions can be statements at large, and small pins can speak volumes about social or political issues. Director Travon Free, who along with co-director Martin Desmond Roe won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short with their film 'Two Distant Strange...

FacebookTwitterEmail A scene from "Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!" on Netflix. Courtesy Netflix The new Netflix series "Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!" starring Jamie Foxx might be the entertainers first television show to flop.  Youd think the Grammy Award-winner would have put more effort into the show considering his background and previous shows like "The Jamie Foxx Show" under his belt.  The show is executive produced by Jamie Foxx and his daughter Corinne Foxx, along with "The Jamie Foxx Show" c...

Opinion: Them is despicable and should be removed from streaming services immediately FacebookTwitterEmail Screen grab from Amazon Prime Video series, "Them."Courtesy Amazon Prime Where do we as creatives draw the line between art and filth? "Them" would fall under the latter. "Them," Amazon’s newest “horror” series, which was released this past Friday, stands as a large reminder of the way "people of color sometimes participate in their own degradation," per Angelica Jade Bastién at Vul...

Print Los Angeles natives Travon Free and Kris Bowers have more in common than their hometown. The first-time directors both received Oscar nominations last month for their short films, which are currently streaming and boast name-brand support from the filmmaking and Black communities. Free’s “Two Distant Strangers” (on Netflix), co-directed with Martin Desmond Roe, is a narrative short that sees its subject (played by rapper Joey Badass) being killed again and again by the same malevole...

Catch Oscar-nominated short films at The Neon Russell Florence © CONTRIBUTED The Neon is currently screening the 2021 Oscar-nominated live action short films, animated short films and documentary shorts. Oscar season and The Neon have always been a perfect match. So, it’s no surprise the downtown movie theater, located at 130 E. Fifth St., is currently screening the 2021 Oscar-nominated live action short films, animated short films and documentary shorts. The live action sh...

Review: Two Distant Strangers highlights stellar class of Oscar shorts Oscar-Nominated Short Films program, a favorite on the Detroit Film Theaters annual calendar, unfolds virtually beginning Friday Adam Graham A White cop and a young Black man are caught in an endless cycle of violence in "Two Distant Strangers," an invigorating "Groundhog Day"-style tale with a social justice twist, and one of the highlights of the 2021 Oscar-Nominated Short Films program.  Even in an off year for the Oscar...

Six Feet Over presents ‘Two Distant Strangers’ — a look at one Black man’s worst nightmare By By Lapacazo Sandoval, Contributing Writer Published February 25, 2021 O ne of ten films that will advance in the Live Action Short Film category for the 93rd Academy Awards. Nicholas Maye, Van Lathan, Zaria, Travon Free (Six Feet Over) Heads up Hollywood. The production company —Six Feet Over—started by three savvy, creative African-American men, all of whom are over 6’feet tall, is exper...

Courtesy of Dirty Robbers Writer and co-director Travon Free and producer Lawrence Bender discuss the time-loop story of a Black man who constantly relives the same moment and cant escape being shot by a white officer. Most time-loop films traffic in existential comedy. Think Palm Springs and Groundhog Day. But while the new short film, Two Distant Strangers, also features a time loop, the overall, suffocating feeling during its 30 minutes is one of existential terror. The story of a Black m...