T’was the Night Before Christmas – By Filmmaker IQ

T’was the Night Before Christmas – a Sneak Peak of the big things to come on Filmmaker IQ in 2017.

Merry Christmas and have a Cinematic New Year.

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An Innocent Children’s Holiday? Roger Ross Williams on “Black Pete” and his Short Film, Blackface

Admittedly, it was with a feeling of vindication and satisfaction that I stumbled upon Roger Ross Williams’ most recent short Blackface, now streaming on CNN. The Academy Award-winning director — whose feature Life, Animated premiered this week in the US Documentary Competition at Sundance — is a recent transplant to the Netherlands, and his thoughts upon first encountering Zwarte Piet (“My heart sank and I felt a little nauseated”) were a bit different from my own. As a white American, my initial reaction years ago to seeing both kids and adults in blackface and Afro wigs celebrating in the streets […]

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“Stories of Their Pain and Personal Struggle”: Director Paddy Breathnach | Viva

In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? In terms of hidden motivations or narratives I’d say if they are there they are woven deep […]

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