Marta, a young Venezuelan mother, is immigrating to Brazil when she meets a struggling young couple with a baby girl. Her ability to breastfeed causes their fates to become forever entwined.
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July 2022
Tricycle
An immigrant youngster from South Korea tries his best to make friends in a new environment. While he is spending the day with his friend, an unexpected encounter with his father on the street leaves him with a dilemma in different relationships.
September 2013
Tom in America – Directed by Flavio Alves
Tom in America is a short film about a 70 year-old married man who begins to question his sexuality because of a chance encounter with a provocative doll.
July 2016
The Beekeeper’s Keeper – Directed by Megan Rossman and Samantha Farinella
Born and raised in Manhattan, Liane Newton dreamed of owning a farm. After the death of her father, she set out to make her fantasy a reality.
Newton now runs nycbeekeeping.org, a non-profit working to ensure that all beekeepers in NYC have access to training and mentoring.
May 2019
San Miguel – Directed by Cristina Tamez Rodriguez
San Miguel tells the story of Ana, a devout 9-year-old girl that has to deal with the solitude that comes with having a mother who remains in a paralyzed state of grief. Unable to go back or move forward, Ana’s only hope is to alleviate the pain of her mother through divine intervention.
July 2016
Red Apples – Directed by George Sikharulidze
A young Armenian bride’s relationship with her husband is put to the test the first day of their marriage when her mother-in-law interferes.
December 2013
Q&A with Thelma Schoonmaker, Terence Winter, and Leonardo DiCaprio
What was the process of you discovering the source material and trying to get it produced?
DeCaprio: As soon as I read the novel I thought, “This is like a modern day Caligula.”
June 2022
Q&A with Stefan Forbes
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of Hold Your Fire. The film took place in my old neighborhood—I lived a block and a half from where those events took place, right on the J line. It’s a major intersection, a very busy hub. To me, this is […]
April 2017
Q&A with Sienna Miller and James Gray
Can you discuss the process of adapting the book for the screen?
James Gray: The book is a meticulously researched thing. Immediately you realize that you’re in for it if you change something factually and of course I had to, because it’s a movie.
June 2023
Q&A with Sean Mullin
When did you first start noticing a disconnect between Yogi Berra’s reputation and the player the stats showed him to be?
Sean Mullin: I think that’s what this was all about. When I started doing the research, I was like, wait, this guy was criminally overlooked.
December 2020
Q&A with Sacha Baron Cohen, Jason Woliner, and Maria Bakalova
Sacha, the original Borat was a tremendous success. Why did it take so long to make a sequel?
Sacha Baron Cohen: Well, we just assumed it was impossible to make.
September 2020
Q&A with Richard Tanne
What did your writing process entail?
It kind of had the whiff of destiny, from the time I read the book.