THE STORY – In 1960, Fidel Castro comes to America to speak at the UN. He is invited by Malcolm X to stay in Harlem at the famous Hotel Theresa. Unsure of his intentions, the FBI, CIA and the Mafia,...
“Alice and Steve” is a British comedy television series from Clerkenwell Films. It was created by Sophie Goodhart (writer on “Sex Education”) and is directed by Tom Kingsley. It tells the story of a two-and-a-half-decade-long friendship between Alice (Nicola Walker)...
The thing about filmmaker John Sayles is that he has done everything. Do you love Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial or Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist? Sayles’ unmade screenplay Night Skies is a piece of the source code for both classics. How...
THE STORY – Using new interviews and home movies his family sent over the border, a filmmaker explores his parents journey to the U.S. from Mexico, revealing a personal mosaic of one family’s struggle to reconcile two cultures between two...
THE STORY – Former high school seniors reunite in their 30s to complete their education after a tornado abruptly ended their final year in 2008. As they return to the halls of North Meadows High, past relationships reignite and hidden...
“SubwayTakes” (also “Subway Takes”) is an internet talk show hosted by comedian and media personality Kareem Rahma. Similar to the “man on the street” style of video, the show features interviews by Rahma with civilians and celebrities on the New...
Making his long-awaited return to feature filmmaking after a 12-year absence, Gregg Aaraki was back at Sundance this year to premiere I Want Your Sex, an erotic comedy that brings together Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Charli XCX, Daveed Diggs, Mason...
THE STORY – A multi-generational family of outspoken Puerto Rican women takes center stage as they conceive and perform fantastical film vignettes as a way to navigate painful pasts. THE CAST – Idaliz Villanueva, Désirée Rodríguez Villanueva, María Villanueva, Genesis...
In the time since By Hook or by Crook premiered at the 2001 Frameline Film Festival and established itself as a landmark of queer cinema, the two writer/director/stars behind the film have gone in very different directions. Silas Howard has...