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Citizen Penn : An Exclusive Interview with Director Don Hardy

On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti and killed 220,000, injured 310,000; more than 1.5 million were left homeless. From that moment, desperate patients had to endure civil war style medicine, the doctor had to carry out the amputation without anesthesia. In Los Angels, six days after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Sean Penn…

SEEfest : South East European Film Festival

The 2021 South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) announces film lineup for 16th edition (April 28-May 5) Award-winning writer Dubravka Ugrešić will receive the SEEfest Legacy Award and Marija Škaričić (MARE) and Jasna Djuričić (QUO VADIS, AIDA?) will both receive the inaugural Legacy Acting Award. Elka Nikolova’s A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL and Kata Oláh’s MY…

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 

 The Human Rights Watch Film Festival Presents Full Lineup of Cinematic Works in Second Digital Edition Available Across the U.S., May 19-27, 2021 Co-presented by Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center  New York, April 15, 2021 — The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 32nd year, will present its second full digital edition of…

Leslie Odom Jr. Talks about How He Finds Sam Cooke’s Voice in “One Night in Miami.”

To get to play soul singing legend Sam Cooke would be an achievement enough but to do so in a film as prestigious as One Night In Miami adds the sweet topping to the prize cake. Such a triumph is not the only feather in the cap of 39-year old Leslie Odom Jr. —- he…

EarthxFilm: The Dallas Film Festival

EarthxFilm 2021 announces film lineup for 5th edition (April 16-25) Environmentally-focused film festival doubles up on daily  in-person and virtual screening presentations including Opening  and Closing Night selections of Sally Aitken’s PLAYING WITH  SHARKS and World Premiere of Clark Johnson’s PERCY VS GOLIATH   PLAYING WITH SHARKS, PERCY VS GOLIATH DALLAS, TX – EarthxFilm announces ten days and…

The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Lee Daniels’ Exegesis of Strange Fruit – Film Review

“Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees” This is the first verse of the song Strange Fruit sung by Billie Holiday, that has become the true protagonist of Lee Daniel’s latest cinematic oeuvre….