Viola Davis Saves “G-20”, Steve Buscemi for “Psycho Therapy”, “There’s Still Tomorrow” New on Streaming Guide for April 8
Viola Davis Saves “G-20”, Steve Buscemi for “Psycho Therapy”, “There’s Still Tomorrow” New on Streaming
Britt Lower’s CIRCUS PERSON: Review; Utilizes a circus of images, moments and animation in tale of a woman finding herself after a breakup
But as Ava becomes a circle, so too does the movie around her. Interspersing realism with vintage circus footage, dreamlike moments, mime, and stop-motion animation using both Lower’s full body and animated paintings on her body-as-canvas. There’s also a talking fish…sort of. Lower intends the short to be the start of something more, and with this level of visual flair, it’ll be exciting to see what happens to Ava once she moves past her break-up.
FAR EAST DEEP SOUTH, TAHARA, A WHORE LIKE ME lead Women Texas Film Festival’s Filmmaker Awards for 2020’s Virtual Edition
Women Texas Film Festival Founder and Festival Director Justina Walford said, “The virtual presentation somehow added to the immediacy of the moment with our screenings and Q&As and it was thrilling to not just experience each film without distractions but to also hear from so many filmmakers and actors and documentary subjects from all around the world right in our living rooms. And the films that our jury selected for these awards all shared the fact that they touched and inspired our judges to such an extent that they needed to be honored.”
Olivia Peace’s TAHARA Opens Women Texas Film Festival announces slate of films for virtual fest August 13-16 with an emphasis on LGBTQIA+ and provocative docs
Walford added, “We love being part of the international movement to showcase female filmmakers and we know we must continue our efforts with even more force so that we change the filmmaking industry in hiring an equitable gender ratio. Our goal has always been to show the range of the female storyteller, and the depths to which women can take us via their work in film- whether it be emotional, visual, introspective, startling, shocking, and horrific.
INDIE MEMPHIS 2017 REVIEWS: Noel Wells's Austin-based self-discovery comedy MR. ROOSEVELT dares you to watch it and not laugh
I’d compare the film to Mike Judge’s work, and I mean this as a gigantic complement. No single gag is necessarily fall out of your seat funny, instead they cumulatively charm you until you can’t seem to do anything except laugh at every interaction. She does this by not overly exaggerating any given moment in an unrealistic joke, but rather taking hundreds of totally believable ridiculous incidents and cramming them all together into one escalating funny movie-long joke.