This is a poignant 25 minute short film entitled “A War For Your Soul“, by a brother & filmmaker Reginald Bullock that carries themes that are universal, relevant not only to the USA but worldwide as we have this problem in spades in certain countries and vast in others with regards to violence amongst the youth. [...]
March 3, 2010
"Strangers" is a silent short film shot by writer and director team Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv in 2007 [a favourite amongst the Interwebs click and building] with a poignant message I believe of "tolerance", a better snippet and gist of the storyline:
February 20, 2010
Right about now, we pause on the music international for a second to feature in a couple of seconds an interview [2 short parts] by a brother Beyonder [ UK multimedia artist, educator & presenter] with guest, I came across a brother months ago, recently and honestly saw him at Ctrl.Alt.Shift United Underground show, but [...]
February 11, 2010
Dr. Sunitha Krishnan is a mental health professional and runs Prajwala [non-governmental organization in India] crusading & campaigning against the inhumane evil of trafficking in children. At the tail end of last year, Dr. Sunitha Krishnan who has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market, gave a courageous [...]
January 28, 2010
Howard Zinn [RIP] an American historian and social activist whose take on history “People’s History” was going against the grain [what is taught, studied in school and beyond] , past and current state of affairs. People always have differing opinions whether they agree with Howard Zinn and others or not, he who wrote the “A Peoples [...]
January 16, 2010
This is an awarding winning 37 minute short film documentary, by film makers Justin Brandon, Brian McElroy & Dan Schnorr slated for the film festival circuit and DVD release entitled “The Road to Fondwa“. The film is an engaging portrait of Fondwa (a town in Haiti), demonstrating its potential with a focus and togetherness from the community to build [...]
January 12, 2010
Whilst we wait in anticipation of the Distant Relatives album by Damain Marley and Nas release date 16th March 2010. Years prior, siblings Julian and Stephen Marley worked on a remix project according to today’s music story, covering songs by father and legend Bob Nesta Marley with renown artists in Erykah Badu, Guru, Rakim, Lauryn Hill, [...]
January 4, 2010
Came as across this via a status update by Daoud Abu-Bakr aka DJAfrican an aspiring film maker. Some African countries are still corrupt, conflict rife, poor health, hunger, poor water, selfishness.. these plus more are stifling the growth of a vastly natural resourced Africa, a highlighter than most, this short film sheds a bright light in Botswana. Botswana [...]
December 29, 2009
I continue the sequence ala “I Am He” with this Oscar nominated film short “New Boy” by Steph Green in association with Zanzibar Films, a truthful tale of a young African boy with a haunting back story starting school in Ireland, and finds out quickly and exactly what it means to be the new kid. A [...]
December 28, 2009
This is a poignant and compelling low budget short drama film with sprinkles of humour titled “I Am He” shot and edited by Hoodlum Media on the illness locked-in syndrome. Locked-in syndrome is a condition in which a patient is aware and awake, but cannot move or communicate due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary [...]
December 18, 2009
A nice award winning short film for the closed work week, just Signs speaks volumes and silence is golden, good little story with vocal communication amiss like the silent film era by Director Patrick Hughes. Have a butchers and let it be known. Signs by Patrick Hughes
December 8, 2009
Lets get this out the way… Naija is pigdin (broken English, Ala patois) for Nigeria, thought I’d clear this up… Comedy is a mainstay here, but unfortunately went into hiatus for a period ermm.. what the heck is up with that {laughing out loud}. To resolve and reintroduce this, is Bright Okpocha aka Naija comedian Basket [...]
December 3, 2009
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (R.I.P) was one of the famous and revolutionary sons of Africa, who coined and created what we now know as Afrobeat. Spreading the Afrobeat afar and beyond was Fela’s band Africa 70 assembled in the 60’s and 70’s and from this band set came the infamous and legendary drummer and composer Tony Allen [...]
November 24, 2009
Once in while, you just need to kick back by-self or others and indulge in some virtual escapism could be a couple of minutes, hours for instance. For a moment escape, here is a near 20 minutes of the awards winning comedy 2007 short film titled “Validate” by Kurt Kuenne (writer, director and composer) featuring TJ [...]
November 19, 2009
The gentleman that put on wax and uttered “the revolution will not be televised” a sentence and words steeped in the stable psyche of music, the poet & social commentator and musician into question, you guess right… the legendary Gil Scott-Heron. A brother has been in hiatus for a while longer but caught in the [...]
March 8, 2010