“Best of The Year”); ISOLE CICLOPI, in which a Sicilian grandmother talks to 5,000 year old rocks (Aspen Shortsfest ‘21, Whistler Film Festival Int'l Shortwork Jury Award); CATTLEDOG, a quiet COVID Western (AFF ‘21), A VERY FRAGILE THING, an Ethiopian-American civil war film (...
‘21, Whistler Film Festival Int'l Shortwork Jury Award); CATTLEDOG, a quiet COVID Western (AFF ‘21), A VERY FRAGILE THING, an Ethiopian-American civil war film (NBFF ‘22), and JIHAN, a story of war and waiting on the Kurdish/ISIS front. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife ...
I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK[Saibogujiman Kwenchana] (2006)– Romantic comedy set in a mental asylum is likely to remain the weirdest example of its genre The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle(2009)– Experimental cookies cause hallucinations and pregnancy in male janitors in this indi...
Some shows, like Ethiopian Serenaders, attempted to keep to clean and inoffensive material. The focus of their show was to feature talent rather than slapstick and bawdy jokes. However, most shows featured grossly distorted characters of African-Americans being stereotyped as lazy, superstitious, and...
Daniel Decatur Emmett and some companions put together a routine of singing and dancing accompanied by fiddle, banjo, tambourines, and "bones" (castanets). Calling themselves "The Virginia Minstrels", Emmett's group was also imitated, in 1844 a troupe called The Ethiopian Serenaders were performin...