by Eva Troester | May 2, 2017 | Culture, Events, Movies
Dispatches from the Tribeca Film Festival: A look through the lens of films to see ourselves in the other, and the other in ourselves with Russell Peters. Russell Peters generously breaks the ice by mimicking farting sounds as he settles into an armchair,...
by Eva Troester | May 1, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Movies
Dispatches from the Tribeca Film Festival: A look through the lens of films to see ourselves in the other, and the other in ourselves with Pablo Schreiber. I am sitting on a stoop having a coffee and a croissant when a very tall Pablo Schreiber crosses the street in...
by Downtown Magazine | Jul 14, 2015 | Culture, Movies
Filmed in Utah over a 20-day period, Ami Canaan Mann had a lot of work cut out for her as writer and director of Jackie & Ryan. However, in being an experienced creative mind within both TV and film (e.g. Texas Killing Fields, Friday Night Lights, NYPD Blue), Ami...
by Jackie Hart | Apr 30, 2015 | Culture, Entertainment, Events
La MaMa in association with Art2Action presents the debut of a spoken word and multimedia performance called Eleven Reflections on September, written, directed, and performed by Andrea Assaf. The performance explores a post-9/11 New York, and the Arab American...