Not exact matches
REVIEW: LANDLINE is the sophomore feature from writer - director Gillian Robespierre,
whose debut, THE OBVIOUS CHILD, was one of the buzziest
titles in recent Sundance memory.
Jumping the Broom,
whose title comes from a wedding tradition Pam alone wishes to see honored here, marks the feature film
debut of director Salim Akil (a veteran of TV's «Soul Food», «Girlfriends», and «The Game») and Arlene Gibbs, who shares screenplay credit with story - credited Elizabeth Hunter (an alum of «ER», «The L Word», and «Charmed»).
Owing equal debt to Italian neo-realism and more contemporary Iranian cinema, Haifaa Al - Mansour «s feature
debut follows the
title character, a rebellious 12 - year - old girl who enters a Koran - recitation competition at school in order to win enough money to ride a bike, while her mother (Reem Abdullah) fights to hold on to her husband,
whose wealthy mother is encouraging him to get a second wife.
As we've seen, almost two thirds of the Big - 5's earnings currently comes from their «Old» authors, those who
debuted more than 5 years ago and
whose frontlist and backlist
titles now comprise 63 % of Big - 5 earnings.
Its latest offering is the New York solo
debut of Peter Shear, a young painter based in Indiana,
whose show, «Magnolias All at Once,» takes its blossom - conjuring
title from Norman Fischer's book of poetry.