BY GABE CASTRO **This article contains spoilers** Frida Kempff’s debut feature Knocking gets under your skin the way an incessant noise that only you can hear does. Following a woman recently released from a mental health facility after experiencing a traumatic event, Kempff explores the vulnerability of...
BY KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR The 2021 Sundance Film Festival took place virtually over seven days from January 28 to February 3 with a full lineup of 141 films and projects available via the Sundance custom-designed online platform. This was the first year with the new Festival Director...
BY DALI ADEKUNLE Philadelphia Free Library cardholders can enjoy Bacurau for free on Kanopy. You can sign up online for a library card and create your Kanopy account. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles' Bacurau (2019) is an homage to and self-portrait of Afro-Indigenous Brazil. The opening...
BY BEDATRI D. CHOUDHURY OUR RIGHT TO GAZE is a collaborative project of Full Spectrum Features (Chicago), Northwest Film Forum (Seattle), The Luminal Theater (NYC), and Circle Collective (NYC). cinéSPEAK is honored to be a presenting partner of their incredible short film program. The program will be...
BY ROSA PARRA The Sundance Film Festival is one of the most important festivals in the United States. It's also a special event for me because it was the first festival I ever attended; it turned out to be my only in-person experience in 2020 as...
BY JASON PETERS Washington D.C. transformed into a mundane yet mystifying military occupation for the Inauguration of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. Metal fences were erected and more than 25,000 members of the National Guard were on sight at the Capitol Building in response to the...
BY STEPHEN SILVER Ever since the coronavirus pandemic forced the closure of most movie theaters in March, a frequent refrain among many cinema enthusiasts is that they'll get back to in-person moviegoing as soon as there's a vaccine. With the approvals of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna,...
A Year in the Life of Promoting a Digital Series During a Pandemic BY LAURA RIVAS AND RUKSHAN THENUWARA Laura and I met in 2013 while cutting our teeth on producing commercials for a major studio. We instantly connected as third culture kids and navigating careers outside...
BY MARIAM DEMBELE AND JASON PETERS Two former classmates at Temple University, both notable visual storytellers, talk about how their work overlapped in Philly during 2020. Mariam Dembele works as an organizer and mediamaker with Movement Alliance Project, leading their Philly We Rise initiative, whereas Jason...
BY DIEGO ANDALUZ Despite the storm of negativity that has been the past twelve months, both within the film industry and outside of it, one of the few positive aspects of our current circumstances has been seeing various facets of cinema blossom that had previously been...