By Gary M. Kramer. Daniel Patrick Carbone made a splash at the Tribeca Film Festival back in 2013 with his feature debut, Hide Your Smiling Faces, a largely improvised drama about two brothers growing up in rural New Jersey. The film depicted the characters’ coming-of-age, but the palpable mood and […]
Dating and Vulnerability: Sherren Lee and Jesse LaVercombe on The Things You Think I’m Thinking
April 26, 2018
By Tom Ue. Director Sherren Lee’s latest offering, the short film “The Things You Think I’m Thinking” follows a date between a burn survivor and amputee (Prince Amponsah) and a regularly-abled man (Jesse LaVercombe). It has earned the AWFJ EDA Award at the 2017 Whistler Film Festival, the Special Jury Award […]
Rediscovering the Cinema Culture of the Congo: An Interview with Cecilia A. Zoppelletto
April 26, 2018
Conscious life-activity directly distinguishes man from animal life-activity. It is just because of this that he is a species being. – Karl Marx, Estranged Labour For Marx, we humans as a ‘species being’ are defined by our engagement with our environment, which is shaped to meet our needs. Human ingenuity […]