🏛️ Bulletin: Nico Casavecchia, Andy Madjitey, Minhal Baig...
DIRECTORS' LIBRARY
February 11, 2024
CAMPAIGN
Nico Casavecchia directs ‘Making Waves’ for White Claw.
A visual poem about the creation of waves. Made in collaboration with choreographer Deanna Thompson and starring Monica Williams and Jobel Medina.
Behind-the-scenes Instagram
Premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival as pre-roll before festival films.
Nico Casavecchia — ‘Making Waves’ White Claw
MUSIC VIDEO
Andy Madjitey directs ‘Odo’ for Asa.
A celebration of love, capturing real-life couples, friends, and families.
Watch Asa's Soul-Stirring Music Video For "Odo" okayafrica
Filmed in Accra and Busua, Ghana.
Andy Madjitey — ‘Odo’ Asa
FILM
Minhal Baig directs ‘We Grown Now’.
Two young boys, best friends Malik and Eric, discover the joys and hardships of growing up in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 1992 Chicago.
'We Grown Now' Shows The Humanity Of The Cabrini-Green Projects Huffington Post
Sony Pictures Classics Picks Up Minhal Baig’s TIFF Premiere ‘We Grown Now’ Deadline
Jurnee Smollett and Lil Rel Howery Star in the Acclaimed Spirit-Nominated Indie IndieWire
Premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and the winner of the Changemaker Award.
Filmed in Chicago, USA.
Akwasi Poku — ‘The Therapist’
Book Club
For February, we have selected ‘Film Business’ by LILLIAN ROSS — Lillian was a staff writer at The New Yorker for seven decades, and wrote on filmmakers regularly over the course of her extraordinary career.
Each month we spotlight a new or excellent reading, and offer our readers a chance to win a copy in a simple draw:
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Footnotes
EE BAFTA Film Awards 2024 Nominated British Shorts
youtube.com/playlist/
Burning For Something with Celine Song & Sofia Coppola
open.spotify.com/episode/
Denzel Washington & Spike Lee to Remake Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low’
variety.com/denzel-washington-spike-lee-high-and-low
Richard Kind on Making a Short Film about Making a Short Film
https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/proof-of-concept
The Criterion Shelf: The Films of Yasujiro Ozu
thatshelf.com/the-criterion-shelf-the-films-of-yasujiro-ozu/
Harmony Korine Delivers Chaos at a Hollywood Premiere
nytimes.com/2024/02/09/style/harmony-korine-aggro-dr1ft
Mark and Jay Duplass on why 6-minute movies matter
washingtonpost.com/jay-mark-duplass-short-film-sundance/
Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Launches ‘No Drama’ Horror Film Fellowship
thewrap.com/jordan-peele-monkeypaw-horror-fellowship/
Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis: Everything We Know
esquire.com/francis-ford-coppolas-megalopolis
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