Want to hear a joke? David (Brandon Polansky) has plenty, but you might not find them funny. There’s the one about Bill Cosby (you can likely guess the punchline), another about Kobe Bryant (same) and more than a few about his fellow Jews. This latter category tends to do best at the local Jewish Community Center, where David has unwillingly been sent to attend a support group for adults with disabilities.
Like many in “Keep the Change,” Polansky is a nonprofessional actor on the autism spectrum. Rachel Israel’s debut feature — which just took home the prize for Best U.S. Narrative Feature at Tribeca — is marked by a docu-reality aesthetic befitting its modest-but-effective storytelling. Expanded from her short film of the same name, it also shows signs of its truncated origins: The film’s central relationship is strong, but it’s virtually the only layer in a story...
Like many in “Keep the Change,” Polansky is a nonprofessional actor on the autism spectrum. Rachel Israel’s debut feature — which just took home the prize for Best U.S. Narrative Feature at Tribeca — is marked by a docu-reality aesthetic befitting its modest-but-effective storytelling. Expanded from her short film of the same name, it also shows signs of its truncated origins: The film’s central relationship is strong, but it’s virtually the only layer in a story...
- 4/29/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The Rocket, The Kill Team, and the other competition awards winners for the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival have been announced. The 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival was “a film festival that was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff…The mission of the festival is “to enable [...]
Continue reading: Tribeca Film Festival Awards 2013: Winners: The Rocket, The Kill Team...
Continue reading: Tribeca Film Festival Awards 2013: Winners: The Rocket, The Kill Team...
- 4/26/2013
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
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