<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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Opening night at HollyShorts Film Festival

Opening night at HollyShorts Film Festival

Aug 12, 2023

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

Aug 11, 2023

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

Jul 28, 2023

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...

Return to Dust – Marriage and Love

Return to Dust – Marriage and Love

Jul 20, 2023

We are accustomed to stories of love and marriage. We almost always think about those two things in that order: first love, then marriage. Return to Dust, from writer/director Li Ruijun, gives us an alternative to the relationship of those two concepts. In rural...

Love Gets a Room – Life and Death Coexist

Jun 23, 2023

The title card that opens Rodrigo Cortés’s Love Gets a Room, gives us the setting of the story (Warsaw in January 1942) and the context of the Warsaw ghetto filled with 400,000 Jews with suffering and inevitable death everywhere. The title card ends with the...

Scarlet – Fairy tale between wars

Jun 9, 2023

Scarlet (L’envol) is something of an international mash-up. Italian director Pietro Marcello has very loosely adapted a novel (Scarlet Sails) by Soviet writer Alexander Grin into a story of French village life in the interbellum years. As the film opens, Raphaël is...

In the Dusk – Truth and betrayal

In the Dusk – Truth and betrayal

May 25, 2023

In the Dusk, from director Sharunas Baras, takes us back to a nearly forgotten point in history, post-war Lithuania. Lithuania, which became a nation briefly in 1918, was occupied and controlled by the Soviet Union and Nazis through most of the twentieth century. Now,...

Land of Gold – Immigrant tales

Land of Gold – Immigrant tales

May 4, 2023

AT&T’s Untold Stories program is a partnership between AT&T and Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Film Institute to develop underrepresented content providers. The wnner of the AT&T Untold Stories Grand Prize at the 2021 Tribeca festival was Nardeep...

Unconditional – Caring for the caring

Unconditional – Caring for the caring

May 2, 2023

According to AARP, 53 million Americans are caregivers for family members dealing with health issues of various kinds. Some of us have been through that experience; many more will face such times. Daniel Lui, a news anchor at MSNBC, had to make major adjustments in...