A little negativity

Fuck the Miami Short Film Festival.

“They really stand behind local talent,” says Franco Parente, hometown director of the erotic comedy Casper and Kitty. - Miami New Times

If one looks at their website you will notice that of the 86 short films they will be showing this year FOUR, including Franco's, are from local filmmakers. That's 4 out of 86. 4.6%

Great job supporting the local talent ******* ****, you alcoholic carpetbagger.

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The Borscht Film Festival is incredibly proud to call Tarell Alvin McCraney one of our own, and to be the only arts organization in Miami to be actively showcasing his work.

It's not that Borscht is particularly insightful...it's just...well...Miami

He's gotten praise from press everywhere his plays have been produced- across the country and in the U.K.

All of the following quotes were pulled from just what the New York Times had to say about the "astonishing young dramatist." You can find many many more with a few minutes on google.

"Listen closely, and you might hear that thrilling sound that is one of the main reasons we go to the theater, that beautiful music of a new voice."

"...there are reverberant echoes of Homer, Milton, the Bible, Shakespeare, vintage Hollywood and homespun American melodrama. Like most writers of worth, Mr. McCraney, whose “Brothers Size” made the American theater prick up its ears when it was presented at the Public Theater last season, is a hard-core linguistic scavenger. And he has blessed each of his characters with the authority of playwrights who beg, borrow and steal lustrous words to re-shape the world in their own images."

"I can’t think of another recent play that deals as explicitly and compellingly with how erotic permutations define identity, in ways that both limit and liberate."

Brothers Size Review
Wig Out! Review


Tarell wants nothing more than to bring his voice to Miami, his hometown. Not one company seems interested in making it happen. While the rest of the world gets to enjoy his work, Miami is still waiting on his first production.

You can see a short screenplay of his brought to life as part of this year's Borscht Project.


More importantly, a story:

Tarell had a play in production as part of the Carlotta Festival at the Yale School of Drama a few years back. Hanging in the theater lobby were pictures of all the...homogenous playwrights involved in the festival. And there was also this one:


Yes, that is 305 shaved into his head.

Carlos Florez and that Lean

Carlos Florez is currently in L.A. making music videos for Syndrome Studios.

Here are two of his latest videos.

I think it's really easy to tell a Carlos video from the many that are beginning to knock off his maximalist style.

Carlos is cooking up something similar for the downtown segment of The CCCV Project, which you can read up on here http://www.borscht.info/BorschtProject.htm

He is ridiculous.

Also, he can spell Wisconsin.

Welcome

This really should have been created a while back, especially since we pretend to be all hip and all new media and all... So I'm going to take the next few posts to catch up on what a few of us have been doing the past few months.

If you've stumbled upon this blog, and have no idea what cccv or The Borscht Film Festival is, take some time to look around here: www.borscht.info

It's a pretty website if you are on a mac.

Welcome.