This year the Meet the Press film festival collaborates with DOC NYC, heading to NY for the first time. Film Inquiry spoke with Chuck Todd about the festival!
A collection of six short films by Black directors, Our Right to Gaze challenges what has been pervasive since the inception of Hollywood: the “White Gaze.”
The 2021 collection of New French shorts has a wide range of genres, from science-fiction to slice-of-life realism, and some wildly experimental animation.
Field Guide to Evil will likely please genre aficionados and horror buffs, but on the whole, its lack of tonal cohesion will leave others underwhelmed.
We were able to talk with Niclas Gillis and Tanisha Lambright, the director and star of the short film drama Hold Me Down, which follows a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother who works as a stripper at an illegal nightclub in the South Bronx to support her child.