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 Khurmi’s Land of Gold. It may be a story that we have seen before, but it comes…
?Remember when we talked about being alone in the world?? Aly Muritiba?s Private Desert is a story of a man?s search for a way out of his loneliness and isolation. Much of that solitude is self-imposed and the result of being in a very conservative masculine world. His journey will push his understandings about love…
?Every man dies, not every man truly lives.? That truism has several variations and possible sources. Often it is through the nearness of death that we begin to see what life is really about. That is the concept that Hannah Marks explores in Don?t Make Me Go. Max Park (John Cho) is a single father…
?The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.? Phil Wall?s documentary The Book Keepers opens with a title card of the Pat Conroy…
?If we hope to truly see another person, we have to start by looking within ourselves.? Ryusuke Hamaguchi?s Drive My Car is built around the power of storytelling?imagined stories, dramatic stories, and personal stories. The film is based on short stories by Haruki Murakami, but also includes a good deal of Anton Chekhov?s play Uncle…
?Try not to run away from stuff that isn?t there.? Hudson, the first feature film from Sean Daniel Cunningham, received a fair number of awards from film festivals. It is certainly the kind of film that festival audiences like to find?a sweet, feel good story from a new filmmaker. One of the pleasures of going…
Family can be a place of pain or a place of healing. It can be the place we try to escape from or the place we need to return to. It is where we hear words that are like a knife in the heart or like the warmth of a hug. In Alan Ball?s Uncle…
How best to describe I?m Thinking of Ending Things? The easy answer is that it?s a Charlie Kaufman film. (He both writes and directs.) His scripts (cf. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Synecdoche, New York) are always mind games (not only for the audience, but for the characters as…
AMC?s Preacher has returned? but the Saint of Killers is right behind him. As the second season of the supernatural dramedy is unleashed, actor Graham McTavish is excited about the opportunity to for the audience to reconnect with some of the the most unique characters on television. ?[Preacher] is based on a series of comic…
?Everyone has a path that leads them to wherever they need to go. All you can know is if you were brave or scared in your life.?
