With the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival fast approaching, films from which will be covered on Bold as Love as it happens, news on theater release dates for two of the small amount of African diaspora-focused films from the 2014 Festival have recently been announced, with one in theaters as we speak.
Garrett Bradley’s Below Dreams, a widely-liked film of critics and reviewers, will make its theatrical debut via distributor 108 Media on Friday April 10th in Los Angeles at the Downtown Independent and the following week April 17th at Cinema Village in New York; on April 21st it will be available on VOD via iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, and VUDU.
As best described by the filmmakers, the ‘poetic journey’ of Below Dreams follows the lives of three young adults as they return to New Orleans in pursuit of employment, stardom and unconditional love. With an improvisatory and impressionistic documentary feel, the film is purely cinematic as it touches on the current, but not often as well-explored, narrative of American millennials by revealing an intoxicatingly visual account of today’s ignored youth whose dreams may not be as possible as normally advertised.
Check out the trailer below and stay tuned here for more news on the film.
Making its theatrical debut on April 3rd in New York City, as reported last week from Vanessa Martinez of Shadow and Act, is another of our favorite Tribeca ’14 films, Josef Wladyka’s Manos Sucias (Dirty Hands).
Not as ballyhooed as deserved, this exploration into the most bottommost of rungs in the Colombian drug trade follows desperate fisherman Jacobo (Jarlin Martinez) and a naive street kid Delio (Christian James Abvincula) as they tow a submerged torpedo containing millions of dollars of cocaine up the Pacific coast of Colombia in the wake of their battered fishing boat.
Starring Afro-Colombian actors, and shot entirely on location in the regions in which they are from, Wladyka captures the ironic beauty and vibrancy of the Colombian coast against an impoverished war-torn region begging for retribution. A non-glamorous view of the drug trade, Manos Sucias instead offers a rare glimpse of its devastating effects on more than the people it becomes distributed to. Executive produced by Spike Lee, and more sinister and less political than other Colombian films highlighting the region – like Oscar Ruiz Navia’s El vuelco del cangrejo (Crab Trap) or Jhonny Hendrix’ Chocó – Wladyka’s film presents a necessary gritty element to the cinematic landscape for Colombia.
Our interview with director Josef Wladyka will soon appear.
Manos Sucias debuts theatrically at Laemmle NoHo 7 in Los Angeles on April 10. Expansion to additional markets will soon follow. Ask for it in your city now as its not to be missed.
