Screening at this year’s prestigious Slamdance Film Festival (in the Anarchy Shorts category), “C#CKFIGHT” is a nine-minute long mind-bending and voyeuristic exploration of a sweat-soaked back-room brawl. Born and bred in Miami, filmmaker Julian Yuri Rodriguez—a Knight Foundation Fellow at the Sundance Institute—co-wrote and directed the film. While it’s Rodriguez’s first narrative fiction piece, it also happens to be another stellar offering from the producers …
by Andrea DiCenzo Best known for their daring performances as school friends in the 2001 Mexican hit “Y Tu Mamá También” (And Your Mother Too), actors and filmmakers Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal have championed in a new generation of Mexican cinema to unprecedented critical acclaim. Two of the most successful Mexican actors worldwide, Luna and García Bernal have also carved a cult following …
“Echo Johnson is a 42-year-old widely respected but uncertified tattoo artist of mixed race who has willfully cast off the burden of being at all ambitious.” “Your TV doesn’t love you, but I do, I do,” serenades Echo Johnson, the transient hero of Carson Mell‘s animated series “Tarantula.” In an eight part run of three-minute segments, Johnson delivers hilarious and absurdist monologues that follow tangents …
