If you are looking for some future truly independent films in the coming years (especially future Sundance selections) just keep an eye out for the scribes, producers and film titles mentioned in the eighteen projects advanced here by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Sharing coin totalling 450,000, we have some familiar names in Blindspotting‘s Carlos López Estrada, actress Morningstar Angeline (part of our Sundance Trading Cards series), Matthew Puccini and recent 2022 Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs folks in Yuan Yuan (Late Spring) and Hasan Hadi (The President’s Cake). you’ll benefit from the Sffilm Rainin Grant coin.…...
- 8/22/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Infuses a familiar tale of small-town life and youthful disaffection with a crisp sense of hope teased out of Navajo tradition. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Yes! This is the sort of movie I keep wanting to see more of. Drunktown’s Finest, from Navajo-American filmmaker Sydney Freeland (her feature debut), offers a fresh spin on a familiar tale of small-town life and youthful disaffection that shares the universality of that experience across cultures while also underscoring some surprising differences. Three young people with connections to the Navajo reservation outside of Dry Lake, New Mexico, find themselves crossing paths: Nizhoni (MorningStar Angeline) was adopted out to a white couple after her parents were killed in a DUI car wreck, and now she wants to meet the family that remains; transgender Felixia (Carmen Moore) dreams...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Yes! This is the sort of movie I keep wanting to see more of. Drunktown’s Finest, from Navajo-American filmmaker Sydney Freeland (her feature debut), offers a fresh spin on a familiar tale of small-town life and youthful disaffection that shares the universality of that experience across cultures while also underscoring some surprising differences. Three young people with connections to the Navajo reservation outside of Dry Lake, New Mexico, find themselves crossing paths: Nizhoni (MorningStar Angeline) was adopted out to a white couple after her parents were killed in a DUI car wreck, and now she wants to meet the family that remains; transgender Felixia (Carmen Moore) dreams...
- 2/20/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Criss-crossing ensemble pieces are a small but distinct flavour of this year’s Sundance London; along with Little Accidents and Hits, Drunktown’s Finest joins them with a slant for interlacing storytelling within a certain location. This time around, we take a visit to a place rich in Indio-American culture with Drunktown’s Finest, a low-budget picture with bigger things on its mind.
On a Native American reservation, a handful of lives are put under the microscope. As they slowly weave together, the traces of their decisions (some good, some poor) sketch a map rich in detail, low in coincidence and big on consequence. They’re the Navajo, and they are three: Nizhomi (Morning Star Wilson) is adopted by a white family and raised without knowledge of her original heritage; Felixia (Carmen Moore) is a transexual, struggling with people’s preconceptions of her and still fighting against the waves of...
On a Native American reservation, a handful of lives are put under the microscope. As they slowly weave together, the traces of their decisions (some good, some poor) sketch a map rich in detail, low in coincidence and big on consequence. They’re the Navajo, and they are three: Nizhomi (Morning Star Wilson) is adopted by a white family and raised without knowledge of her original heritage; Felixia (Carmen Moore) is a transexual, struggling with people’s preconceptions of her and still fighting against the waves of...
- 4/26/2014
- by Gary Green
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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