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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 malevolent police officer in a fatalistic time loop. It’s a dramatic change of pace for the comedian and w...

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 short nominees are “The Present” (Palestine, 25 minutes), “Feeling Through” (USA, 19 minutes),...

Review: 'Two Distant Strangers' highlights stellar class of Oscar shorts Oscar-Nominated Short Films program, a favorite on the Detroit Film Theater's 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 Oscars (and for Hollywood in general), the Oscar Shorts program — which presents the Academy Award-...

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 experiencing the warm glow of the entertainment industry’s spotlight which is firmly fixed on their fir...

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 can't 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 man trying to get home to his dog after spending the night with a woman he has met, the film is a po...