by Ming Gana | May 23, 2024 | Profiles, Top reads
Meet up-and-coming film director, Cadenza Zhao whose aim is to use her experiences growing up in different countries and cultures to make more diverse and multicultural movies that resonate with audiences. ‘In the polarised world of today, I aim to be a bridge between...
by Jess Fitzpatrick-Howard | May 23, 2024 | List & Reviews
Luca Guadagino’s latest movie, Challengers, is a grand slam of a film. The film perfectly captures and merges athleticism and romantic tension. Tashi (Zendaya), a former tennis prodigy turned trainer, and her husband Art (Mike Faist) are on a losing streak and enter...
by Jess Fitzpatrick-Howard | May 23, 2024 | Deep-dives, Genre, Profiles
In L.A., 21-year-old Amarise Defranco has just completed her first short film, Lakay. The challenges Defranco has faced in her journey to this point are reflected in the experiences of another young animator, Rebecca Huang. These two women’s experiences in...
by Bijin Chen | Apr 24, 2024 | Profiles, Representation
A female cinematographer winning Oscar? “I’m all for dreaming big, but I like dreaming realistic.” A huge machine is standing there, cold and black. Snaking wires run down its body. It observes in silence with its deep pupil. People, objects, actions, lights,...
by Lucy Wilcox | Apr 18, 2024 | Genre
The deep American South is enmeshed in painful histories, sprawling sceneries and magic. The Southern Gothic genre has traditionally been associated with literature from the ante- and post-bellum century which reflected on the harrowing stories and culture that came...
