By Sheryl Aronson, Mikey Adam Cohen and Linita Sotelo-Masters Day III of the 29th Annual Long Beach Jazz Festival featured a superb lineup, with Richard “88 Fingers” Turner, Jr., Al Williams Jazz Society with Najee and Barbara Morrison as special…
Award Winning Director Nico Raineau’s ‘Brix and the Bitch’ wins Best Action Film Hollyshorts Film Festival
By Linita Masters Nico Raineau was a recent Top Ten Filmmaker Finalist on the fourth season of the HBO series Project Greenlight, not surprisingly his films have screened at over fifty festivals. Brix and The Bitch, Raineau’s first dramatic film,…
Short Film “BEHIND THE WALL “- Review
By Rena Renee The simplistic title, Behind the Wall, written & directed by Bat-Sheva Guez, is contradictory to the intense message the short film portrayed. This may be in part the allure of the film. Humans whose most creative and expressive minds become inhibited…
PANDORA PARTNERS WITH QUESTLOVE, UNVEILS QUESTLOVE SUPREME
GRAMMY-winning musician and best-selling author to become strategic advisor and first artist ambassador for Pandora Pandora (NYSE:P), the go-to music source for fans and artists, today announced it will partner with Questlove to premiere Questlove Supreme, a raw and ingenious…
BARAKAH MEETS BARAKAH BECOMES SECOND EVER SAUDI FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR ENTRY
Barakah Meets Barakah, the debut feature from Saudi writer/director Mahmoud Sabbagh, will become the second ever Foreign Language Academy Award entry for Saudi Arabia. The film follows Haifaa Al Mansour’s Wadjda, which was Saudi Arabia’s first official entry for the…
The 29th Annual Long Beach Jazz Festival-Day II
By Sheryl Aronson, Mikey Adam Cohen & Linita Sotelo-Masters The 29th Annual Long Beach Jazz Festival kicked off on Day II, Saturday, August 13th,once again with a superb lineup on the Main Stage: Mindless Groove, Paul Jackson Jr., Everette Harp,…
“As Straw Before the Wind” A Universal Theme With A Filipino Perspective
By Linita Masters With so much talk of diversity, or lack of, in Hollywood, I was pleased to be invited to the world premiere of the play “As Straw Before the Wind,” written by Filipino-American playwright Felix Racelis and directed…
Oaxaca FilmFest new 2016 collaboration with Sundance Institute
Sundance Ignite will participate in Oaxaca FilmFest´s Young Industry and New Industry programs. The International Film Festival Oaxaca FilmFest announced today that Sundance Institute, through its Sundance Ignite Program for 18-to-24-year-old filmmakers, will host three panels during Oaxaca FilmFest this…
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE EP.1 “Down With David” Web Series – Raunchy, Funny and True
Here is the EXCLUSIVE premiere of Episode 1 of “Down with David”, based on the real life story of director, Derek Nelson. If you liked the film “American Pie” you will love this bawdy web series based on the true…
Sundance Institute and Jaunt Studios Announce Latest Additions to VR Residency Program
Daniel Arsham, Yung Jake, and Lily Baldwin & Saschka Unseld Latest Creatives to Join VR Residency Sundance Institute and Jaunt Studios announced today their latest class of creatives, at the forefront of innovation in media and entertainment, to join the…