SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Lessons From Nola Darling
Even though the newsreels have stopped and social media has turned to something new, the fight for equality and BLM still rages on. For the month of July, CLAPPER is continuing to promote the Black Lives Matter movement with a Spike Lee retrospective series. Beginning with Lalo Ortegas essay on Spike Lee’s debut hit SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT and its rebooted remix series on NETFLIX regarding empowerment, cancel culture and learning from creative mistakes
Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez: "Cinema can provide a record and shape values, and move us and make us more curious, but lived experience is what gets us wisdom"
Directing duo Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez talk to Lalo Ortega about the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, inspiration, COVID-19, and the duos latest film The American Sector
CPH:DOX: Long Live Love
Long Live Love is, in one of its many sides, not only a documentary about living with such a curse as cancer, but also the truth about being born with it
CPH:DOX 2020 - Själö (Island of Souls)
The haunting tales of the wronged, silenced women, in Själo - Island of Souls, can leave more of an impression after its trance of melancholy and silent rage is over, and must not be forgotten
BERLINALE 2020 - The American Sector
The American Sector is the kind of cinema that can, in a way, delay the unstoppable, hopefully in the form of insightful, empathetic memory instead of a Thanksgiving punchline