It’s been a long time since I’ve had the time or the luxury to travel, but when the Bermuda Film Festival was announced this year, I knew I had found the perfect reason to don my fedora, fill a kit bag and hop a jet plane. Being an air force brat, I’ve had the luxury…
Tag: Reel World Film Festival
ReelWorld: La Playa D.C. – Juan Andres Arango
Tomas (Luis Carlos Guevara) and his troubled younger brother, Jairo (Andres Murillo), live with their mother (along with her current partner and their baby) in the sprawling city of Bogota, Colombia. Despite losing their father in the small but violent, drug and war-torn village of Buenaventura on the country’s Pacific coast, neither boy has…
ReelWorld Film Festival – Contract – Shirley Frimpong-Manso
The 2013 ReelWorld film festival kicks off in high gear with Shirley Frimpong-Manso’s lighthearted romantic comedy from Ghana, Contract. We first meet Peter (Hlomla Dandala), a successful businessman who loves the ladies, but enjoys his bachelorhood too much to ever give it up for the stresses of an actual relationship. Realizing that he wants to…
Reel World Film Festival 2013
As luck and extreme good fortune would have it, I will be covering the Reel World Film Festival for the first time this year! Since Tim will be in freaking Bermuda (that’s my new name for it) covering their festival and passing out drunk on a beach somewhere, I’ll be taking on this one…
The Mind Reels 