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The majority of enslaved and free people who participated in the 1831-32 Emancipation War in Jamaica, which broke out on December 27, 1831, and ended by January 1832, and was led by now National Hero, Rt. Excellent Samuel “Daddy” Sharpe, were men...
Lush life: the director discusses her debut feature, the particularities of portraying Black motherhood, how she eschewed social-realist tropes, and what her (many nonprofessional) actors taught her about empathy
Filmmaker Alexander Nanau’s ‘just the facts’ approach makes the Romanian documentary Collective an absorbing and startling experience. Nanau’s film has already become critically acclaimed and is nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar this year. The skill he applies to Collective warrants a review of his previous documentary work. The filmmaker argues he made Collective to underline the pressure placed on journalists in the era of misinformation or what Donald Trump infamously called ‘fake news’. The spontaneity of Collective, specifically how immediate the corruption is, mak...
Film festival favorite (and award-winner) “The Strong Ones” (Breaking Glass Pictures) continues a new wave of Chilean cinema that forthrightly and empathetically explores LGBTQ themes. In Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo’s smart and sexy debut feature, the romance between grad student Lucas (Samuel González) and fisherman Antonio (Antonio Altamirano) unfolds with ardor and passion, but the film never shies away from exploring the class disparity between the two characters or the assumptions that each might make about the other. Also available: Shot in Cuba, the based-on-a-true-story drama “Ma...