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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Improved by COVID-19
The original Borat wasn’t really a movie so much as a cultural flashpoint, with Sacha Baron Cohen trolling average Americans into casually revealing their racisms (it doesn’t take much!) in between public provocations, many of which invited the possibility of an ass-beating. Fourteen years later, it’s hard to recapture the charge of that very particular cultural moment and nobody really wants to hear “My wife” ever again, so what are we doing here? Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (full subtitle: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan) is mostly tedious or borderline unwatchable for much of […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 21, 2020 -
A Long Road for Women Directors in South Korea: NYAFF’s Female-led Korean Films and the Ongoing Struggle for Gender Equality
The 19th edition of New York Asian Film Festival spotlighted films with women both in front of and behind the camera, emphasizing a specific focus on women filmmakers across the region. And while it was exciting to see women directors and stories highlighted in a festival lineup, these examples were exceptions to the rule. Among NYAFF’s slate of over 50 films and television episodes, only ten were directed by women. Men are overrepresented in film industries globally, especially in Asia where patriarchal values are so deeply entrenched in culture and society. Among the ten female directors represented in NYAFF’s lineup, […]
by Beatrix Chu on Oct 21, 2020 -
Back to One, Episode 130: Matthew Del Negro
You know Matthew Del Negro from Scandal, Goliath, The West Wing, or as Cousin Brian on season four of The Sopranos, or maybe, like me, you were wowed by his comedic tour de force as Jason Allen Ross in Netflix’s Huge In France. He’s currently filming his second season as Detective Chris Caysen on Showtime’s City on a Hill. He also hosts a great podcast called “10,000 NOs” where he has deep conversations with people who’ve overcome rejection on the way to success in their field. He’s just written a book of the same name which draws on his own […]
by Peter Rinaldi on Oct 20, 2020 -
Emma Seligman
Emma Seligman’s initial relationship with film had less to do with getting behind the camera than engaging critically with movies. Not yet in high school, Seligman took her journalist aunt’s advice and applied to Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children, an event organized by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) that enlisted pre-teens to review and award jury prizes to a slate of family-friendly films. A personal film blog in high school led to Seligman, born and raised in Toronto, getting a seat on the TIFF Next Wave Committee, connecting her with a diverse group of fellow teenage film […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 19, 2020 -
Shabier Kirchner
Film was present in Shabier Kirchner’s life for as long as he can remember. He grew up with his father’s cinematography developing in the basement of his family’s home in Antigua, but it wasn’t something that stood out to him until the “alchemy” of celluloid and the discrepancies between formats challenged his early conceptions of the medium. He remembers watching and being amazed by Luc Besson’s underwater epic The Big Blue on a “little 4:3 TV.” Revisiting it years later when his family got a larger screen, he was shocked: “Why is there two-thirds more of an image? I know […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 19, 2020 -
Merawi Gerima
Although he and his five siblings were raised by notable filmmakers Haile Gerima and Shirikiana Aina, Washington, D.C., native Merawi Gerima didn’t grow up dreaming of following in his parents’ footsteps. Much of what he knew about their work came via the unfiltered critical opinion of others. “My elementary school science teacher had known about my parents’ biggest project in the early ’90s, Sankofa,” Gerima recalls, “and I remember him telling me, ’Your father is a great man, but I hope he’s being careful because this type of film could create a lot of enemies for him. People may want […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 19, 2020 -
25 New Faces of Film 2020
Filmmaker is now out with its annual 25 New Faces, our picks of directors, writers, producers, editors and cinematographers who are exciting us right now. Click here to read this year’s list.
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 19, 2020 -
Darcy McKinnon
“I might stretch the definition of ’new face,’” jokes Darcy McKinnon, “but I am new as a documentary producer.” Indeed, McKinnon’s first experience in film came more than 20 years ago when, out of college, she worked as an assistant editor in San Francisco. That led to coproducing the one-hour 2006 POV documentary, Maquilapolis, directed by Sergio De La Torre and Vicky Funari, about activist women factory workers on the border between Tijuana and the United States. The film is, says McKinnon, “responsible for a lot of the ways I want to practice, where social justice and art come together. […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 19, 2020 -
Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani
The eerie beauty of a deserted city, its affirming rhythms halted by an unseen virus. The ambient dread as friends become contagious vectors and discarded PPE litters the streets. The guilty divide between the work-from-homers and the exhausted essential workers. For anyone living through the pandemic’s early months in a sero-saturated metropolis like New York City, emotions came fast and hard. Offering a digital tonic amidst our quarantine doomscrolling: 2 Lizards, an eight-part animated series on Instagram Live by Brooklyn-based artists and filmmakers Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani. In the first episode, which dropped mid-March, the two shiny reptiles shimmy […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 19, 2020 -
Rajee Samarasinghe
In 1998, when Rajee Samarasinghe was 10, his family left Sri Lanka—then in the middle of its multidecade civil war—for Irvine, California, where his youthful interest in illustration shifted to a focus on films. Taking advantage of free VHS rentals from a nearby public library, Samarasinghe would watch three to four movies a day. He quickly noticed that in a lot of mainstream films, “there wasn’t an interesting approach to form. That’s why I went to experimental film programs to learn.” After studying at UC San Diego, Samarasinghe completed an MFA at CalArts in 2016, where he was a TA […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 19, 2020
