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21 September 2020
TRUE GRIT! EFN reveals its autumn edition...
by Mydylarama team
Another trimester, another season, another Emerging Filmmakers Night . Although the apocalypse is kept at bay, Covid is still raging, and given the fun had last time, the team decided to keep their winning formula and hold another live-streamed event on 28 September 2020.
And so, in that spirit of enduring resilience, behold the autumn edition: TRUE GRIT! EFN is a festival that celebrates talented filmmakers’s early work and gives a platform to many gems that might not have yet reached the (...) Continue Reading »
13 September 2020
Our Picks + Waves
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Matt Howsam
This week we are joined by Matt Howsam, a production coordinator in the VFX industry and a film critic.
We mention the hilarious and highly original One Cut Of The Dead by Shin’ichirô Ueda, a Japanese Zombie comedy in the style of some of the best mockumentaries out there and a homage to low budget filmmaking. Depending on where you are you can watch it on [Shudder->https://www.shudder.com or buy the DVD (it’s from 2017). Abla also highlights the Netflix series (...) Continue Reading »
7 September 2020
Our Picks + Pablo Navarrete (No Extradition)
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
This week, Coco and Abla interview documentary filmmaker and journalist Pablo Navarrete. Pablo’s latest film No Extradition is a record of the campaign of support for Julian Assange who is facing extradition to the US. He also follows John Shipton, Assange’s father, over several months as he fought to secure his son’s release from Belmarsh prison in the UK.
The filmmaker whose first documentary "Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela" dates from 2009 was working for (...) Continue Reading »
24 August 2020
First edition of the Independent Iraqi Film Festival
by Abla Kandalaft
Oline and entirely free to watch, the Independent Iraqi Film Festival brings us features, shorts and discussions, shedding a spotlight on a thriving cinematic culture in the country and among the Iraqi diaspora.
IA: Israa Al-Kamali AH: Ahmed Habib RT: Roisin Tapponi SD: Shahnaz Dulaimy
1. How did the team come together and initiate the idea for the festival? IA: It started with a call from Ahmed Habib, one of the four people working on the festival, back in March. Ahmed and I got (...) Continue Reading »
19 August 2020
Our Picks + Black Is King (Special Guest)
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, George Crosthwait
For this episode of Mydylarama’s Top Picks podcast, we’re joined by our guest, academic, film programmer and Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film Festival producer George Crosthwait. George Crosthwait.
George’s pick of the week, and also his first trip back to the cinema since February, is Shannon Murphy’s debut film ’Babyteeth by Ousmane Sembene, freely available on YouTube!
As an aside, here is an article Abla mentions about Disney’s dodgy credentials when it comes to matters of race (...) Continue Reading »
5 August 2020
Our Picks And American Horror Story: Apocalypse
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
Another fortnight, another episode! We start with our picks and move on to a discussion about American Horror Story: Apocalypse (S8, 2018). As huge horror fans, we’ll have other episodes down the line in this genre.... Coco’s Top Pick is American Son (2019), performed as a one set straight play, in which an interracial couple waits at the police station for news of their teenage son’s whereabouts, revealing the lies a family has told themselves about political race and the limitations of (...) Continue Reading »
21 July 2020
Our Picks And The Staircase
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
In this episode, we discuss our picks of the fortnight and focus on true crime documentary The Staircase and the issues that it brings up.
The Dark finale was definitely a highlight, a truly gripping series, with twists and turns as bonkers as those in Lost, with none of the incoherence and sheer wackiness. Palestinian filmmaker Sameer Qumsieh’s doc Walled Citizen, in which he explores travelling with the world’s lowest ranking passport was screened as part of the Galway FF selection. You (...) Continue Reading »
9 July 2020
Top 5 on Netflix - The Black Middle Classes
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
Mydy’s second podcast! It’s the second part Secorro’s look at the Netflix Black Lives Matter collection and associated films. We’re still tinkering with tech and format. Other episodes will feature discussions with more back and forth, as well as interviews and guest spots. As always, comments welcome!
This week, from five films on Netflix, (1) Self-Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (2020); (2) Strong Island (2017); (3) Skin (2019); (4) I Am Not Your Negro (2016); and (5) Black (...) Continue Reading »
Louis won the Audience Award at the June Emerging Filmmakers Night live-streamed event for his short film Stationary. EFN partner Mydylarama interviewed him the following day, giving him an opportunity to talk at length about his work.
Stationary won the Audience Award for the Bottled-Up edition. The characters in Chan’s short are fully-rounded, three-dimensional and fully engaging to watch. Within a restrained setting, he manages to create quite a rich storyline and relationship between (...) Continue Reading »
Emma won the Critics’ Award at the June Emerging Filmmakers Night live-streamed event.
Crashing Waves manages to convey a complex relationship between its protagonists without any dialogue and in such a short amount of time. Emma doesn’t simply rely on the impressive skills of the dancers and the beautiful choreography, she uses a multitude of crafty, cinematic choices, shots and camera angles to weave together a moving, three-dimensional story built on themes of love, masculinity, class (...) Continue Reading »
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