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OSCAR CONTENDING DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT – Lauren Melinda on Transforming Personal Grief Into BEFORE YOU

Before You has emerged as one of the most emotionally arresting contenders of the season — an intimate, devastating portrait of a couple navigating the end of a planned pregnancy. The film arrives without spectacle or political framing, instead carrying the soft, unspoken weight of lived experience. It is a work built from silence, color, memory, and the kind of grief that resists public language. In … Continue reading OSCAR CONTENDING DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT – Lauren Melinda on Transforming Personal Grief Into BEFORE YOU

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OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Oscar Shortlisted Red White and Blue directed by Nazrin Choudhury starring Brittany Snow

Nazrin Choudhury’s choice of a highly controversial and delicate subject for her directorial debut must be lauded; the question of who will bear the consequence of politicians dictating a woman’s right to reproduction is summed up extremely well by Shakespeare “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown!!” It would be better to let the film do the talking as it highlights many incidents and … Continue reading OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Oscar Shortlisted Red White and Blue directed by Nazrin Choudhury starring Brittany Snow

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***** OSCAR CONTENDER – Interview with Zineb Oukach director of ‘Interruption’ – abortion in a patriarchal society 

1. How did you find the experience of Producing a film which you wrote and starred in too? I felt I was doing a meaningful work and creating a film from scratch with everyone was very rewarding. I loved the business side of moviemaking and the challenge to work with a very limited budget. The writing was an enjoyable process for me, as a child … Continue reading ***** OSCAR CONTENDER – Interview with Zineb Oukach director of ‘Interruption’ – abortion in a patriarchal society 

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