feature film debut

A feature documentary titled, Living/Building, that’s been buzzed about a bit this year, on the international film circuit, from 20-year-old French director Clemence Ancelin, making her feature film debut. Described as a bare-bones filmmaking effort, Ancelin shot the film solo, primarily with a handheld camera using ambient sound, and no music, letting the stark images tell the [...]

Continue Reading Preview Stark ‘Living/Building’ (A Thorough Look At Technological Change In A Remote Part Of Chad)

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Following up with an entry posted about a month ago, which included news that Victoria Mahoney’s impressive feature film debut, Yelling To The Sky would finally see a commercial release before the end of 2012. Skip ahead to this morning, and I’ve been informed that the film will open in New York on December 14th, and will be followed [...]

Continue Reading Victoria Mahoney’s Acclaimed Coming-Of-Age Drama ‘Yelling To The Sky’ Gets A Release Date!

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It was released in the UK June, earlier this year, although it has yet to travel. If any of our UK readers saw it, please share your thoughts. Otherwise, you should know that, while the rest of the world waits for Victim, it’s out on DVD and Blu-ray (but only in the UK) today, October [...]

Continue Reading Watch New Clip From Brit Urban Action/Drama ‘Victim’ (On DVD/Blu-ray Today)

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News that I think will thrill a lot of you, who’ve emailed me over the last 8 months or so, asking when Victoria Mahoney’s impressive feature film debut, Yelling To The Sky (which I saw at the Gen Art Film Festival last year) will be commercially released. Thanks to an owl (Harry Potter reference) sitting on the fire escape right outside [...]

Continue Reading Victoria Mahoney’s Acclaimed Drama ‘Yelling To The Sky’ Expected To Be Released By End Of 2012

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I wouldn’t necessarily call this Terence Nance’s *next* film, or his follow-up to his feature film debut, An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty; but if you’ve seen that film, and dug it, then I think you’ll probably dig this series as well. And if you live in NYC, you’ll have an opportunity to see it on the big [...]

Continue Reading Urbanworld 2012 Preview: ‘The Triptych’ (Doc Series Profiling Wangechi Mutu, Sanford Biggers, Barron Claiborne)

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Filmed entirely in St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, the drama Chance is screening at the 7th Annual Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival, which begins September 19. Directed by Evan Kaufmann (feature film debut) from a script penned by Mark Owens, Chance follows Darnell Smith (played by newcomer Terrance Bartley), a St. Thomian photographer [...]

Continue Reading TTFF ’12 Preview: St. Thomas Drama ‘Chance’ (Student Enters Crime Life In Order To Treat Mother’s Illness)

Tags: CHANCE, crime, darnell smith, family, feature film debut, human trafficking in the us, mark owens, seedy underbelly, undiagnosed disease

Filmed entirely in St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, the drama Chance is screening at the 7th Annual Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival, which begins September 19. Directed by Evan Kaufmann (feature film debut) from a script penned by Mark Owens, Chance follows Darnell Smith (played by newcomer Terrance Bartley), a St. Thomian photographer [...]

Continue Reading TTFF ’12 Preview: St. Thomas’ Drama ‘Chance’ (Student Enters Crime Life In Order To Treat Mother’s Illness)

Tags: CHANCE, crime, darnell smith, family, feature film debut, human trafficking in the us, mark owens, seedy underbelly, undiagnosed disease

Making its Caribbean premiere at this year’s Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, which runs September 19 – October 2, the 2010 feature documentary The First Rasta is directed by Rastafarian scholar Helene Lee. First Rasta, the story of Leonard Percival Howell, considered by many as the founding father of Rastafarianism, is director Lee’s feature film [...]

Continue Reading TTFF ’12 Preview: Doc On Leonard Percival Howell As ‘The First Rasta’ & Alleged Founding Father

Tags: feature documentary, feature film debut, Festival, haile selassie, helene lee, marcus garvey, Rasta, rastafarianism, Story

At least 2 years before he wowed us with his feature film debut An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty (which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival this year, where Tambay saw it and reviewed it very positively HERE), writer/director Terence Nance directed and also edited this 8-minute piece starring Ghanaian-American hip-hop and visual artist, Blitz the Ambassador, [...]

Continue Reading Watch ‘Something To Believe’ Directed By Terence Nance (Short Shouts!)

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Harold Perrineau provided the voice of the titular character, the supernatural Daywalker known as Blade, in Marvel’s Blade anime series, which premiere on the G4 channel in January, running for successive half-hour episodes every week after its debut. It’s been available on VOD, but if you still haven’t seen it, and would like to visit (or revisit) it, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment [...]

Continue Reading New On DVD, Blu-ray, VOD: ‘Blade Anime,’ ‘Le Havre,’ ‘Falling Overnight,’ ‘We The Party’

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