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Posted on Emily Davis, Film, Films

True Stories: Doc Fortnight Shorts – Moon v. State starring Emily C. Davis screens Feb. 24th at MoMA

From the personal to the cosmic, this grouping of artists’ films demonstrates that the most daring and probing works are often short in form. James N. Kienitz Wilkins returns to Doc Fortnight with Moon v. State, an archival photo-film whose rapid-fire monologue by Emily Davis (star of Broadway’s Is This a Room) harkens back to the disarray of a small Texas town in the late 1950s, where a bewildering robbery has gone fatally awry.

Moon v. State. 2024. USA. Directed by James N. Kienitz Wilkins. 16 min. World premiere. This film accompanies Doc Fortnight 2024: MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media.

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Posted on Amelia Workman, Film, Films, John Gutierrez

Congratulations to A.V. Rockwell’s ‘A Thousand and One’, Amelia Workman, and John Maria Gutierrez for 7 well-deserved NAACP Image Award Nominations!

A Thousand and One, written and directed by A. V. Rockwell, has received a whopping 7 nominations for this year’s NAACP Image Awards. Amelia Workman as “Anita” and John Maria Gutierrez as “Rudy” contributed amazing performances to this intriguing film. Check out the nominations this film received below:

Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Motion Picture) and Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture: A.V. Rockwell.

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture and Outstanding Breakthrough Performance in a Motion Picture: Teyana Taylor

Outstanding Youth Performance in a Motion Picture: Aaron Kingsley Adetola and Aven Courtnery.

Outstanding Cinematography in a Feature Film: Eric K. Yue

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Franks Harts in SEE YOU YESTERDAY at Tribeca Film Festival

See You Yesterday, directed by Stefon Bristol, written by Stefon Bristol & Fredrica Bailey. Produced by Spike Lee, Jason Sokoloff, Matt Myers. (USA) – World Premiere, Feature Narrative. Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build make-shift time machines to save C.J.’s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.

More about See You Yesterday: http://seeyouyesterday.com/

Posted on Emily Davis

Emily Davis in “Is This A Room: REALITY WINNER VERBATIM TRANSCRIPTION”

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Jan 4–Jan 12, 2019 Buy Tickets

Is This A Room: REALITY WINNER VERBATIM TRANSCRIPTION

with Becca Blackwell, Emily Davis, Pete Simpson, T.L. Thompson

A true story, still unfolding.

At the center of an imperative discourse about what it means to have honor in today’s America.

June 3, 2017
A 25-year-old former Air Force linguist named Reality Winner (Emily Davis) is surprised at her home by the FBI, interrogated, and then charged with leaking evidence of Russian interference in our voting system. She’s in jail now.

Is This A Room stages the verbatim FBI transcript of what happened at Reality’s house that day. With an original score by Sanae Yamada (Moon Duo, Vive la Void).

As the verbal dance between knife-sharp Reality and the FBI agents unfolds in Reality’s home and her autonomy shrinks before her eyes, a simmering real-life thriller emerges—with consequences that extend from the most personal to the totally political.

Concept and Direction by Tina Satter. Score by Sanae Yamada. Costume Design by Enver Chakartash. Set Design by Parker Lutz. Lighting Design by Thomas Dunn. Sculptural Design by Amanda Villalobos. Production and Stage Management by Randi Rivera. Assistant Direction and Stage Management by Mariana Catalina.

Friday, January 4 8pm
Saturday, January 5 8pm
Sunday, January 6 2pm
Tuesday, January 8 8pm
Wednesday, January 9 8pm
Thursday, January 10 8pm
Friday, January 11 8pm
Saturday, January 12 2pm and 8pm

Tickets $25 General / $20 Members

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Tina Satter/Half Straddle: Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription is made possible with support from Howard Gilman Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts; and in part by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription was developed in part at The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, New York Theatre Workshop’s Dartmouth Residency, and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency in 2018.

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Posted on Grainger Hines

Reviews are in for Grainger Hines in THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS

“The Gal Who Got Rattled.” It’s a wagon train yarn, set, like the others, in the early 1850s, that begins in half-straight, half-smart-alecky mode but gradually becomes a mournfully tragic tale that evinces a real and sincere love of the West. Crucial to its success is a rich and true performance by Grainger Hines as the wagon master. – Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy (emphasis added)