Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.
Daniel Ribeiro, Jon Moritsugu, Gregg Araki, Cindy Sherman, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Fenton Bailey, Anna Franquesa Solano, Alain Guiraudie, Christophe Honoré, Jenni Olson, James Schamus, Abu Bakr Shawky, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Lulu Wang, Alain Gomis, Karim Aïnouz, Isaac Julien, Jon Jost, João Pedro Rodrigues, Catherine Breillat, Tom Kalin, Randy Barbato, Andrew Ahn, Roddy Bogawa, Connor Jessup, Tommy O'Haver, Ira Sachs, Brady Corbet, So Yong Kim, Bradley Rust Gray, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, John Waters, Rithy Panh, Elisabeth Subrin, Rose Troche, Fatih Akin, Amy Davis, Bruce LaBruce
Director
Maria Schneider
(archive footage)
Drew Droege
Cindy Sherman
Sarah Yarkin
Devon Bostick
Dustin Segura-Suarez
Amy Davis
John Waters
Self
Jon Moritsugu
River Wilson
Catherine Breillat
(voice)
At first glance, Black as Night is a strange title choice for a film about vampirism in post-Katrina New Orleans. However, the title alludes to the world's anti-black and colorist messages.
This current year, as well as the past several, has seen a slowly building increase in something the horror genre has required for quite a while in this critic's opinion...originality. I've stated before that I am very hard to please when it comes to this vein of the film industry's offerings, always leaning more towards that which sends chills through my very being in lieu of buckets of blood and gore.
"Marriage Story" is a narrow-minded and heavy-handed attempt to examine the complexity of human relationships.
Though 'Bound' technically falls under the genres of crime and thriller, the film's heart is a romance between two women.
As an Indian lesbian living in the United Kingdom, the cards are stacked against Geetika from the start.
People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.