A collaboration between acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair’s nonprofit Salaam Baalak Trust, HollyShorts Film Festival presents Director Adam J. Graves and…
Browsing: poverty
Leave it to Ken Loach, that grizzled realist, a seven-decade surveyor of the British working class, to make a sly…
The short film by writer-director Derek Quick (Negane Meno), “Camping” begins with a ride-share driver dropping her passenger to their destination.…
Known for directing films like “Tangerine” and “Red Rocket,” director Sean Baker brings an intimate portrayal of childhood to the…
“Wednesday’s Child” is the new short film from Irish director Laura O’Shea, who we’ve previously covered for her films “Match”…
Horror author Clive Barker has a way of twisting and turning his stories into semi-perfect macabre portraits, weaved around the…
Fantasia International Film Festival is here, and it brings us “Baby, Don’t Cry,” a writing/acting project from Actress Zita Bai…
A day late and a dollar short, I sat down to view “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho’s award-winning drama about poverty,…
Rising against all odds movies are typically reserved for sports films. “Cinderella Man,” “Rocky.” We understand their struggle, and something…
One of the first films to take on the plot device of ‘tough students vs. tougher teacher’ is the 1989…