Film Festival

From the Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey, New York’s NewFest, Tribeca Film Festival, and Urban World Film Festival, to the famed Sundance Film Festival, here you’ll find our film festival coverage (which contains movies, shorts, and episodic content).

Samah (Paloma Mafoud) looking over her shoulder

Mixed (Divisive) | Shorts

Swimsuit (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)

A young girl of Islamic faith has a growing interest in wearing a bikini to her swim meet and decides she isn’t going to ask her mother’s permission.

Shorts | Mixed (Divisive)

Footsteps On The Wind (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)

In this music video, you get a sad, animated story that illuminates the lyrics of Sting’s “Inshallah.”

Poster - Death & Deathability (A Period Piece)

Shorts | Positive (Worth Seeing) | Recommended (Movies)

Death & Deathability (A Period Piece) (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)

Someone call Nickelodeon, Disney, some children’s network because they need to make Death & Deathability (A Period Piece) a series – STAT!

Yiru (Shavvon Lin) in a promotional poster

Shorts | Movies | Positive (Worth Seeing) | Recommended (Movies)

Apart, Together (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)

Apart, Together is a touching story focused on a woman looking for the daughter she was forced to give up.

Movie Poster - The Black Disquision (2021)

Shorts | Positive (Worth Seeing)

The Black Disquision (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)

In The Black Disquisition, a young man recaps the moment his parents had to tell him what it means to be Black, and the journey to find Black to be beautiful

Mixed (Divisive) | Movies

Externo (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)

Externo, while at times tapping on that line of being too art-house, presents a compelling journey as one man vies to take over the world.

Movies | Positive (Worth Seeing) | Shorts

Do You Also Feel A Tingle? – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)

Your first anything is always a magical moment, but only if with the right person.

Title Card - The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021)

Mixed (Divisive) | Movies

The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)

The One and Only Dick Gregory feels very much like a highlight reel that pushes the idea it wanted to either minimalize faults or that there weren’t any.