The Third Annual St. Louis Black Film Festival will be September 6-14 2014 at the Mx Theater at 618 Washington Ave. in downtown Saint Louis. All the films screened will be new movies and not only will the fest feature feature-length films but music videos, short films, and short documentaries as well.
The St. Louis Black Film Festival provides the American Midwest with a forum for African American independent film and video, and also serves as an advocate for African American film and video production in the state of Missouri. The Festival seeks to introduce the best films and videos from the surrounding area to its culturally diverse, film-loving audiences Stlbff was initially established as a vehicle for exposing Black cinema. The event was green-lighted after recognition that though St. Louis is the largest city in Missouri, it did not have a viable Black film festival. Independent filmmakers with films featuring a Black,...
The St. Louis Black Film Festival provides the American Midwest with a forum for African American independent film and video, and also serves as an advocate for African American film and video production in the state of Missouri. The Festival seeks to introduce the best films and videos from the surrounding area to its culturally diverse, film-loving audiences Stlbff was initially established as a vehicle for exposing Black cinema. The event was green-lighted after recognition that though St. Louis is the largest city in Missouri, it did not have a viable Black film festival. Independent filmmakers with films featuring a Black,...
- 9/3/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Third Annual St. Louis Black Film Festival will be September 6-14 2013 at the Mx Theater at 618 Washington Ave. in downtown Saint Louis. All the films screened will be new movies and not only will the fest feature feature-length films but music videos, short films, and short documentaries as well.
The St. Louis Black Film Festival provides the American Midwest with a forum for African American independent film and video, and also serves as an advocate for African American film and video production in the state of Missouri. The Festival seeks to introduce the best films and videos from the surrounding area to its culturally diverse, film-loving audiences Stlbff was initially established as a vehicle for exposing Black cinema. The event was green-lighted after recognition that though St. Louis is the largest city in Missouri, it did not have a viable Black film festival. Independent filmmakers with films featuring a Black,...
The St. Louis Black Film Festival provides the American Midwest with a forum for African American independent film and video, and also serves as an advocate for African American film and video production in the state of Missouri. The Festival seeks to introduce the best films and videos from the surrounding area to its culturally diverse, film-loving audiences Stlbff was initially established as a vehicle for exposing Black cinema. The event was green-lighted after recognition that though St. Louis is the largest city in Missouri, it did not have a viable Black film festival. Independent filmmakers with films featuring a Black,...
- 9/3/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Who knew that being lied to for 75 minutes could be so agreeable — and revealing? Matthew Pond and Kirk Marcolina's knotty, crowd-pleasing doc dishes the life of octogenarian jewel thief Doris Payne, a charming African-American woman who credits her (alleged) $2 million haul over a half-century of ballsy sleight-of-hand to the fact that, finely dressed and hewing to brittle upper-crust mores, "I'm sure they didn't see me as a black American woman."
She adds, "I've had people say to me, 'Oh, you're not black. You don't act black.'"
Payne herself narrates much of her story, hilariously, sometimes touchingly, often with the prideful edge of someone who knows she's achieved a sort of pioneering greatness but that the world will never love her for it. As she tells...
She adds, "I've had people say to me, 'Oh, you're not black. You don't act black.'"
Payne herself narrates much of her story, hilariously, sometimes touchingly, often with the prideful edge of someone who knows she's achieved a sort of pioneering greatness but that the world will never love her for it. As she tells...
- 5/28/2014
- Village Voice
One of the many world premieres that enjoyed a warm response from Hot Docs' opening weekend (here's our take on another), Kirk Marcolina and Matthew Pond's "The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne" tells the remarkable story of their titular subject -- a woman who went from a poor, single African-American mother from segregated 1950s America to becoming one of the world’s most notorious jewel thieves. Doris Payne -- now 81 years old -- comes across as blissfully unapologetic and unusually inspirational in the film, which uses interviews with Payne and her friends and family as well as archival footage and recreations to tell her mind blowing tale. She was a black woman traveling around the world hobnobbing in circles in Monte Carlo and Paris in high end jewelry stores. She was convincing people she was one of their ilk when in the States she had to sit at the back of the bus.
- 4/29/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
Directed by Matthew Pond & Kirk Marcolina
USA, 2013
The movies have taught us a great many things. How to “meet cute”. How to sing in the rain. How to squint into the sun. How to keep an eye in the frame when a juicy tear’s on the way. But perhaps most of all, they’ve revealed the tremendous allure (and symbolic expressivity) of smooth criminality. Matthew Pond & Kirk Marcolina’s film creates an unforgettable portrait of a woman whose crimes are her life – not merely in the sense that they constitute her livelihood, but ultimately in the way that her larcenous resume functions as a powerful statement of artistic intent.
The documentary introduces Doris Payne as an 80-something woman awaiting trial for a sleight-of-hand performance at a San Diego jewelry counter. Proud of her ongoing achievements and eager to regale the filmmakers with tales from her globe-trotting,...
Directed by Matthew Pond & Kirk Marcolina
USA, 2013
The movies have taught us a great many things. How to “meet cute”. How to sing in the rain. How to squint into the sun. How to keep an eye in the frame when a juicy tear’s on the way. But perhaps most of all, they’ve revealed the tremendous allure (and symbolic expressivity) of smooth criminality. Matthew Pond & Kirk Marcolina’s film creates an unforgettable portrait of a woman whose crimes are her life – not merely in the sense that they constitute her livelihood, but ultimately in the way that her larcenous resume functions as a powerful statement of artistic intent.
The documentary introduces Doris Payne as an 80-something woman awaiting trial for a sleight-of-hand performance at a San Diego jewelry counter. Proud of her ongoing achievements and eager to regale the filmmakers with tales from her globe-trotting,...
- 4/25/2013
- by David Fiore
- SoundOnSight
Larry Grimaldi and Kirk Marcolina's gay Christian camp docu Camp Out took home the Showtime Vanguard Award and best documentary feature honors at the 18th annual NewFest: New York's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival, which concluded Sunday. Among the 95 feature-length films screened, Ned Farr's athletic romance The Gymnast was named best U.S. narrative feature and Ahmed Imamovic's Bosnian war drama Go West landed the best foreign narrative feature honor. The audience award for best feature went to Janet Baus, Dan Hunt, and Reid Williams' transsexuals in prison docu Cruel and Unusual.
- 6/13/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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