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Darrel Manson

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Bobi Wine: The People’s President

Bobi Wine: The People’s President

“We go forward because we know freedom is ahead.” A corrupt and oppressive president seeks to hold on to power. Those who try to bring freedom to the nation face violent retribution. In Moses Bwayo and Chrispher Sharp’s documentary Bobi Wine: The People’s President,...

Mixture of films from HollyShorts Film Festival

Mixture of films from HollyShorts Film Festival

It’s nice when I can put groups together when writing about shorts, but today I’m bringing a bit of a hodgepodge of films that are showing at HollyShorts Film Festival. Sevap/Mitzvah, directed by Sabina Vijrača, tells the true story of two friends in Bosnia during...

The Adults – Can we still play?

The Adults – Can we still play?

The Apostle Paul wrote, “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways” (1 Cor. 13:11, NRSV). I’ve always seen that statement as simultaneously wise and foolish....

Animated films at HollyShort Film Festival

Animated films at HollyShort Film Festival

Animation makes up an important part of the world of short films. That is true at HollyShorts Film Festival. Here are a few of the animated films I’ve been sampling. The first four are considered adult themed, the others are for children or families. American Sikh,...

Comedy at HollyShorts Film Festival

Comedy at HollyShorts Film Festival

Today I’m going to take a look at a few of the comedies playing at HollyShorts Film Festival. It should be noted that most of the comedy shorts I sampled had a dark humor as their base. Full Time, directed by Jon Ryan Sugimoto, is about a recent graduate who is hired...

Name dropping at HollyShorts Film Festival

Name dropping at HollyShorts Film Festival

HollyShorts Film Festival is taking place in Hollywood. This festival is all about shorts and the jury award winning film in each category will become Oscar qualified. The festival is both live at the TLC Chinese theaters at Hollywood and Highland, and virtually at...

Opening night at HollyShorts Film Festival

Opening night at HollyShorts Film Festival

HollyShorts Film Festival is taking place in Hollywood. This festival is all about shorts and the jury award winning film in each category will become Oscar qualified. The festival is both live at the TLC Chineses theaters at Hollywood and Highland, and virtual at...

Aporia – Don’t mess with the past

Aporia – Don’t mess with the past

If you could change something in the past, would you? If so, how would you know the consequences of that change? Aporia from director Jared Moshé, takes us into a world that makes us doubt we could handle such changes. Sophie (Judy Greer) is mourning the death of her...

Darkness – From Within

Darkness – From Within

Most of Emanuela Rossi’s Darkness (Buio) takes place within a house with all the doors and windows boarded up. But the title refers to a much more malevolent darkness. It is not the absence of light that makes this picture so dark, but the ever-growing realization...