OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Oscar Shortlisted Good Boy directed by Tom Stuart and starring Ben Whishaw and Marion Bailey

An off-beat short film by first-time director Tom Stuart looks at relationships in grief, love, and life. The script is minimalist in its content; however, the true essence is in the lead actor’s performance and both Whishaw and Bailey, deliver excellent executions. Accepting the present, tormented by the pain of the past, living with relations of varying nature and out of all this not letting … Continue reading OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Oscar Shortlisted Good Boy directed by Tom Stuart and starring Ben Whishaw and Marion Bailey

OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Oscar Shortlisted Knight of Fortune directed by Lasse Lyskjaer Noer – A Nordic experience of grief

 Writer and director Lasse Lyskjaer Noer has created a masterpiece with Knight of Fortune he not only breaks the taboo around grief but emphasises the importance of acknowledging and processing loss. Grief has many faces and affects each person individually. Noer has really captured the different facets of grief.  The contrast between loss and doing your job is brought out in a very matter of … Continue reading OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Oscar Shortlisted Knight of Fortune directed by Lasse Lyskjaer Noer – A Nordic experience of grief

Sissy Director Eitan Pitigliani “Realizing that my mom as well as all our loved ones, are not gone for good at all, and even if they’re not physically here and we don’t see them, they live within us”

The award-winning Writer/Director Eitan Pitigliani’s SISSY was inspired by his own personal story of losing his mother. This heart-wrenching tale shares the story of Luca (Vincenzo Vivenzio) and the young girl (Dea Lanzaro), played by a 7-year-old little girl, who was the one that saved the director’s life after his mother’s passing. SISSY is her debut screen role.  I understand this must have been a deeply … Continue reading Sissy Director Eitan Pitigliani “Realizing that my mom as well as all our loved ones, are not gone for good at all, and even if they’re not physically here and we don’t see them, they live within us”