The Woman King that edged out all of the competition at The Black Reel Awards this year. With six wins out of the fourteen nominations, The Woman King nabbed wins for outstanding film, outstanding director, outstanding ensemble, breakthrough actress, outstanding score and outstanding editing.
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s sweeping epic that focused on the women warriors of Dahomey, narrowly overtook Marvel’s superhero film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever which garnered 5 Black Reel wins of its own. Going into the night, Wakanda Forever was tied with The Woman King with fourteen award nominations. With her third Black Reel Award win for Outstanding Costume Design for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the fantastic Ruth E. Carter became the most decorated technical award winner in Black Reel history.
Actress Angela Bassett also made Black Reel history, becoming the first woman ever to win an acting and honorary award in the same year. Ms. Bassett won...
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s sweeping epic that focused on the women warriors of Dahomey, narrowly overtook Marvel’s superhero film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever which garnered 5 Black Reel wins of its own. Going into the night, Wakanda Forever was tied with The Woman King with fourteen award nominations. With her third Black Reel Award win for Outstanding Costume Design for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the fantastic Ruth E. Carter became the most decorated technical award winner in Black Reel history.
Actress Angela Bassett also made Black Reel history, becoming the first woman ever to win an acting and honorary award in the same year. Ms. Bassett won...
- 2/7/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Colman Domingo and Butterscotch in North Star
If you wonder why the big film awards often seem to focus on just a small group of titles, perhaps overlooking the best films you’ve seen, the reason is this: it’s simply not possible for most voters to make the time to watch everything that’s put forward, and when deciding what they ought to see, they rely a lot on word of mouth. With short films, however, it’s different. They have to make their way through an exhausting system of festival selection and competition, so only the very best make it to the point where they get voter attention. If a short film is Oscar-qualified, it’s almost always worthy of your attention. This year, the films on that list include Pj Palmer’s North Star, and to date it’s one of the strongest contenders.
Colman Domingo in...
If you wonder why the big film awards often seem to focus on just a small group of titles, perhaps overlooking the best films you’ve seen, the reason is this: it’s simply not possible for most voters to make the time to watch everything that’s put forward, and when deciding what they ought to see, they rely a lot on word of mouth. With short films, however, it’s different. They have to make their way through an exhausting system of festival selection and competition, so only the very best make it to the point where they get voter attention. If a short film is Oscar-qualified, it’s almost always worthy of your attention. This year, the films on that list include Pj Palmer’s North Star, and to date it’s one of the strongest contenders.
Colman Domingo in...
- 11/8/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Colman and Raúl Domingo have signed on as executive producers, under their Edith productions banner, on Chuck Schultz’s When My Sleeping Dragon Woke. The documentary film, featuring veteran actor Sharon Washington, takes us on Sharon’s journey as she writes her award winning first play “Feeding the Dragon” about her childhood growing up in the St. Agnes Library in New York City.
Sharon Washington shares her story of growing up with her parents, Connie and George Washington, and the intimate moments that strengthened her as she grew from the little girl in the library to the young woman embracing new opportunities and breaking down barriers. The film is directed and produced by Chuck Schultz, producer of the Heartland Festival 1993’s Best Documentary Winner A Day at a Time.
Edith Productions is committed to producing, creating, and amplifying important and entertaining story from diverse voices. In...
Sharon Washington shares her story of growing up with her parents, Connie and George Washington, and the intimate moments that strengthened her as she grew from the little girl in the library to the young woman embracing new opportunities and breaking down barriers. The film is directed and produced by Chuck Schultz, producer of the Heartland Festival 1993’s Best Documentary Winner A Day at a Time.
Edith Productions is committed to producing, creating, and amplifying important and entertaining story from diverse voices. In...
- 10/3/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
There is love of many different kinds in Pj Palmer’s Oscar-qualifying short, and some of it helps and some of it harms.
Love, first of all, between rancher Jimmy (Colman Domingo) and his husband Craig (Malcolm Gets), visible in the way they look at each other, visible also in the way that Jimmy bathes Craig and spoons food into his mouth and does everything in his power to reassure him that he can still see him, that he still recognises the intelligence and personality within his wasted body. Love, also, for the place that they call home, their remote ranch, the tree clad hills around it, the air bright and crisp on the cusp of winter. And love for the animals who inhabit it, though there are not many now: the two dogs and, alone in the vast barn, the gentle bay mare, North Star (Butterscotch).
Then there is another love: that.
Love, first of all, between rancher Jimmy (Colman Domingo) and his husband Craig (Malcolm Gets), visible in the way they look at each other, visible also in the way that Jimmy bathes Craig and spoons food into his mouth and does everything in his power to reassure him that he can still see him, that he still recognises the intelligence and personality within his wasted body. Love, also, for the place that they call home, their remote ranch, the tree clad hills around it, the air bright and crisp on the cusp of winter. And love for the animals who inhabit it, though there are not many now: the two dogs and, alone in the vast barn, the gentle bay mare, North Star (Butterscotch).
Then there is another love: that.
- 9/23/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Compton-based filmmaker Victor Gabriel is among a select group of filmmakers to punch their ticket for the Oscar race, after scoring wins at the HollyShorts Film Festival.
Gabriel’s 13-minute film Hallelujah won the Grand Prix for Best Short at the festival’s awards ceremony on Saturday afternoon. HollyShorts is an Oscar-qualifying festival, so the win for Hallelujah makes it immediately eligible for Oscar consideration. Producer Duran Jones won the festival’s Best Producer prize.
Two other winners qualified for Oscar consideration: Mulaqat/Sandstrom, directed by Seemab Gul, won Best Live Action short, and Scale, directed by Joseph Pierce, won the award for Best Animation (scroll for full list of winners).
Hallelujah touches on the loss of someone to gun violence, a tragedy with ripple effects on several members of a family.
“After an inexplicable event, two brothers have to take on the guardianship of their nephew and niece,” Gabriel...
Gabriel’s 13-minute film Hallelujah won the Grand Prix for Best Short at the festival’s awards ceremony on Saturday afternoon. HollyShorts is an Oscar-qualifying festival, so the win for Hallelujah makes it immediately eligible for Oscar consideration. Producer Duran Jones won the festival’s Best Producer prize.
Two other winners qualified for Oscar consideration: Mulaqat/Sandstrom, directed by Seemab Gul, won Best Live Action short, and Scale, directed by Joseph Pierce, won the award for Best Animation (scroll for full list of winners).
Hallelujah touches on the loss of someone to gun violence, a tragedy with ripple effects on several members of a family.
“After an inexplicable event, two brothers have to take on the guardianship of their nephew and niece,” Gabriel...
- 8/21/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Victor Gabriel’s “Hallelujah,” Seemab Gul’s “Mulaqat/Sandstorm” and Joseph Pierce’s “Scale” have won the top awards at the 2022 HollyShorts Film Festival, which presented its prizes on Saturday afternoon in Hollywood — thus qualifying for this year’s Academy Awards.
“Hallelujah” won the Grand Prix for the festival’s best short, “Mulaqat/Sandstorm” took the honors as the best live-action short and “Scale” won for animation. HollyShorts is an Oscar-qualifying festival for the short-film categories, and the winners of those three awards are automatically entered in the Oscar race.
The award to “Hallelujah” was presented via video by this year’s Oscar winners for Best Live Action Short, “The Long Goodbye” filmmakers Riz Ahmed and Aniel Karia. The Oscar winners for the 2018 live-action short “Skin,” Jamie Ray Newman and Guy Nattiv, presented the awards to “Mulaqat/Sandstorm” and best-director winner Carlos Segundo (“Sideral”), respectively.
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“Hallelujah” won the Grand Prix for the festival’s best short, “Mulaqat/Sandstorm” took the honors as the best live-action short and “Scale” won for animation. HollyShorts is an Oscar-qualifying festival for the short-film categories, and the winners of those three awards are automatically entered in the Oscar race.
The award to “Hallelujah” was presented via video by this year’s Oscar winners for Best Live Action Short, “The Long Goodbye” filmmakers Riz Ahmed and Aniel Karia. The Oscar winners for the 2018 live-action short “Skin,” Jamie Ray Newman and Guy Nattiv, presented the awards to “Mulaqat/Sandstorm” and best-director winner Carlos Segundo (“Sideral”), respectively.
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- 8/21/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Fresh from his Emmy nomination for guest actor in a drama series for his appearance in “Euphoria,” Colman Domingo is set to executive produce P.J. Palmer short “North Star,” in which he also stars.
In “North Star” Domingo plays a patriotic and hardworking rancher and one half of a middle-aged, same-sex couple. His other half Craig (played by Tony award nominee Malcolm Gets) is dying. Tensions arise when Craig’s sister Erin (“Mad Men’s” Audrey Wasilewski) arrives unannounced to whisk him off to see out his final days with his “real” family.
Laura Innes (“Deep Impact”) and Kevin Bacon (“Footloose”) also star, playing televangelists who “push shame, fear, and division as the cornerstones of faith.”
“The Maze Runner’s” Chris Sheffield rounds out the cast.
P.J. Palmer (“The Grapes of Wrath: An American Story”) wrote and directed the short. He was previously series producer on Amazon Prime LGBTQ+ drama “Anyone But Me.
In “North Star” Domingo plays a patriotic and hardworking rancher and one half of a middle-aged, same-sex couple. His other half Craig (played by Tony award nominee Malcolm Gets) is dying. Tensions arise when Craig’s sister Erin (“Mad Men’s” Audrey Wasilewski) arrives unannounced to whisk him off to see out his final days with his “real” family.
Laura Innes (“Deep Impact”) and Kevin Bacon (“Footloose”) also star, playing televangelists who “push shame, fear, and division as the cornerstones of faith.”
“The Maze Runner’s” Chris Sheffield rounds out the cast.
P.J. Palmer (“The Grapes of Wrath: An American Story”) wrote and directed the short. He was previously series producer on Amazon Prime LGBTQ+ drama “Anyone But Me.
- 7/14/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Writer and producer Neal Baer, P.J. Palmer, filmmaker/producer behind the critically-acclaimed Lgbtq drama series Anyone But Me, and La-based writer Michael J. Wolfe are teaming to develop The Mystery of the 1957 Gay Wedding Photos as a docuseries. The series is being produced by Endemol Shine North America-owned studio Authentic Entertainment, which is working closely with the teams at One Archives Foundation in Los Angeles & John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at the William Way Lgbt Community Center in Philadelphia.
The collection of photos, which are among the first to document a gay wedding, were printed circa 1957 at a neighborhood drugstore in North Philadelphia. The images, which are currently housed with One National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries and the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives, capture special moments between two men tying the knot, including an exchange of rings in front of witnesses,...
The collection of photos, which are among the first to document a gay wedding, were printed circa 1957 at a neighborhood drugstore in North Philadelphia. The images, which are currently housed with One National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries and the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives, capture special moments between two men tying the knot, including an exchange of rings in front of witnesses,...
- 7/25/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
“ER” producer Neal Baer is among the creatives teaming with Endemol Shine North America’s Authentic Entertainment on a new unscripted series entitled “The Mystery of the 1957 Gay Wedding Photos.”
The series investigates a collection of photos which are among the first to document a gay wedding in the U.S., printed circa 1957 at a neighborhood drugstore in North Philadelphia. Filmmaker P.J. Palmer and writer Michael J. Wolfe are also developing the project with Baer.
The images capture special moments between two men tying the knot, including an exchange of rings in front of witnesses, an officiant leading the ceremony, and the first kiss. The owner of the drugstore allegedly judged the photos to be inappropriate and refused to return them to the wedding couple and now, some 60 years later, the images have resurfaced and have left people searching for answers as to who the men are.
“The Mystery of...
The series investigates a collection of photos which are among the first to document a gay wedding in the U.S., printed circa 1957 at a neighborhood drugstore in North Philadelphia. Filmmaker P.J. Palmer and writer Michael J. Wolfe are also developing the project with Baer.
The images capture special moments between two men tying the knot, including an exchange of rings in front of witnesses, an officiant leading the ceremony, and the first kiss. The owner of the drugstore allegedly judged the photos to be inappropriate and refused to return them to the wedding couple and now, some 60 years later, the images have resurfaced and have left people searching for answers as to who the men are.
“The Mystery of...
- 7/25/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
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