Mashinka, a model student, has a best friend named Nika; while Nika had romantic adventures over the summer, Mashinka did not. On the way to the school assembly on September 1st, one makes the other swear an oath of eternal friendship, but on the tram tracks, they encounter a strange new boy who has never attended a regular school.
White audiences saw Peola’s mixed-race passing as a Black woman’s struggle to be white. Black audiences saw it as the rebellion of a Black woman trying to gain privileges only given to white people.
How do zombie films shine new light in the post-Covid and post-Brexit era?
'Do Revenge' offers a 2022-relevant sociopolitical commentary that decries virtue signaling while promoting the inclusive virtues the nefarious power structures exploit.
In this short film, writer/director Nikita Hattangady focuses on Jai, a starving artist rooted in the latter category. Though unhoused, he works hard.
2026 ranks highest in Oscars history for its representation of minorities in all categories, and that’s definitely something to be celebrated.
