Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Padraic McKinley, the Director of “The Weight”
Even though The Weight is a period piece, don’t be surprised if the echoes of history start to get louder and more familiar as you watch the film.
Even though The Weight is a period piece, don’t be surprised if the echoes of history start to get louder and more familiar as you watch the film.
For documentary storytellers Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak, the sweet message behind their film, “Birds of War,” set amid the perils of the Syrian civil war, is that against all odds, love wins.
“I’ve always needed to tell my stories,” says filmmaker William David Caballero. “Growing up, American media sent a clear message that the lives of low-income people of color didn’t matter.”
When it came to depicting the lives of misfit runaway teens in the twisted drama “BURN,” writer-director Makoto Nagahisa was determined to shoot in Tokyo locations that felt unmistakably authentic to the world he was building.
In “Rock Springs,” a woman relocates to a new town with her family following the death of her daughter’s father. While settling into their remote home, they discover something lurks amid the town’s nearby woods.
“Humankind has a biological and evolutionary necessity to absorb and tell stories,” says filmmaker Jeffrey Walker.
In “Kikuyu Land,” Andrew H. Brown explores a land battle in Kenya, shedding light on the legacy of the Indigenous people and the decades of mistreatment they’ve endured at the hands of a corporation profiting from their labor.