Umnia El-Neil is a British-Sudanese culture opinion writer and Shonda Rhimes TGIT Graduate.
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With humour, unpretentiousness and deep care, five brave Sudanese icons recount their brave escape from the Civil War, and green screen helps visualise the Khartoum they were forced to leave behind.
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A campy, tender romp through Zombie conventions, this collection of colourful characters remind us that Horror has always been for the Gworls.
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Adapted from a queer feminist graphic novel that borrowed from Scheherazade, this luscious experiment in fantasy-as-realism is a true treat for the Ren Faire Romance Set (my friends and collaborators all), and is bound to be a cult favourite.
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Set entirely in an Instagram Live, this hangout movie quietly catalogues friendship, identity and performance -- Lead Actor Tuwaine Barrett and Actor/Writer/Director Bradley Banton get into the process with us.
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Based on the 2011 memoir by American writer Lidia Yuknavitch, Kristen Stewart's debut is more experimental than narrative – and does more to honour than it does to analyse.
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Where theatre meets Instagram Live, you can make cinema, and director Bradley Banton has found a unique angle on the hangout film here.
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In homage to the short, this review is written in a similar style to how the film is narrated. In 2019 I had decided that Music was evading me, and become too heavy a craft considering it had birthed my career as an Audio Engineer, and was now somewhat badly
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"This is a story about how pacifism is political. How gender, race, religion are all precursors for violence, and how the denial of that violence is a radical act. However, the story opens up further, like a deep network of roots underground, the more you observe."
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Baumbach meditates on sacrifice, career and family, in a way only a man who's old and over the hill can. (Sorry Noah, but it's true.)
Deep Dive
In a piece I removed from public view a few years ago, I detail why his type of filmmaking doesn't work for me, and why Yorgos himself has become persona non grata on OBSCURAE despite all of his collaborators being filmmakers I love and respect.
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In an intense display of cognitive skill, an old man managed to fool everyone into thinking he was dunking on Gen-Z, and then excoriated his fellow olds.
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