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Tribeca Festival 2024 Announces Jury of Stoytellers, Directors, Actors, Writers, And Producers

Tribeca Festival, presented by OKX, today announced the 2024 jury members who will select winning projects in the film, games, and audio storytelling sections. The Festival has 17 competition categories in which jurors will honor winning storytellers and creators with artistic awards. This year’s festival jury includes a diverse roster of groundbreaking filmmakers, award-winning actors,…

New York Film Festival : Till / Press Conference with Director Chinonye Chukwu, Producer and co-writer Keith Beauchamp, actors Danielle Deadwyler, Whoopi Goldberg, Jalyn Hall, John Douglas Thompson, Sean Patrick Thomas

Synopsis : Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was brutally lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie’s poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal…

NYFF Film Review – ‘Till’ is a Powerful Juxtaposition of a Hateful World and a Mother’s Love 

The story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago who was lynched after whistling at a white woman while visiting his cousins in Mississippi in 1955, is a horrific stain on the history of the United States. Only this year was anti-lynching legislation named after Emmett signed into law, and the violence that all…