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BULLETS IN THE HOOD: A BED-STUY STORY

By | January 2005

SUNDANCE SHORT 2005 REVIEW! Age eighteen and nineteen at the time of production, they were not yet skilled documentarians, but they were skilled enough to show us the pain expressed by family and friends…

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BULLETS IN THE HOOD: A BED-STUY STORY

Teenagers Terrence Fisher and Daniel Howard were already working on a video about gun violence in their Bedford-Stuyvesant housing project when an 11-year...

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I'm a tough guy. I eat nails for breakfast. But goddamnit am I a sucker for a good, quirky love story. In Anthony Ng's “212”, we witness the lives...

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To what extent should people be allowed to choose their children’s genes? “Frozen Angels” examines the moral issues of a slew of alternative ways to...

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Jeong-hae (Kim Ji-Soo) works at the post office, serves everyone with the same simple routine—even the man she has a crush on—and drives her coworkers...

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If it’s possible for a picture to be beautifully made without achieving any recognizable intentions, that’s the case with Berocca, an odd English short...

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Leave it to a film student to pony up one of the most impressive entries in the Shorts Program IV at the ‘05 Sundance Film Festival. Rebecca Cutter’s...

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The standout of the Shorts Program IV at the ‘05 Sundance Film Festival, Everything’s Gone Green is a beautifully rendered love story with something...

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It’s remarkable that several years after Smoke Signals enjoyed a respectable arthouse run, thereby identifying something of a mainstream audience for...

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Try Weaker, and you’re closer to the mark. A flat and tiresome vignette proving that Canadian filmmakers can portray African-American women as...

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