What can the world learn from a protest like this? And how can we begin to come together to create a new world in its aftermath? The scale of the uprising has grown, but the broken heart and defiant soul of the movement is the same. Through interviews from community members, including Dorian Johnson, who was with Michael that day, and Michael Brown’s father, “Ferguson Rises” illuminates the stories from within the city since that time. Six years later, a new story emerges, one filled with hope, love and beauty. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Online Feature at Tribeca Film Festivalīefore a global uprising condemned the murder of George Floyd, there was a small town in Missouri named Ferguson that erupted in protest after the murder of Michael Brown Jr. “So it was very important for me right at the beginning to have collaborators - from writing the script through pre-production, on set, and all the way through post - where I really needed Deaf collaborators who had that lived experience, could be a check on my own hearing perspective, and could help me to tell this story the right way.”įerguson Rises | directed by Mobolaji Olambiwonnu I knew I was coming in as an outsider to this community and whenever that’s the case, you feel an enormous amount of responsibility to make sure what you’re capturing about the community feels authentic and that the culture you’re representing on-screen is real and is something that honors the actual community you’re representing,” says director Siân Heder. “I didn’t want to tell this story if I couldn’t tell it right. When her passion for music threatens to pull her away from home, Ruby must choose between family obligations and her dreams. Dramatic at Sundance Film FestivalĪs a CODA (child of deaf adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her home who, at 17, works mornings before school to help her parents and brother keep their fishing business afloat. “It’s something I’ve been trying to understand, as I grow older, that it was a moment when the world tried to insist that you put away childish things, and demanded that you are dragged into this perilous adulthood.” “In a way, innocence was lost, things would never be the same again,” he says, reflecting on that time.
“I felt obliged and compelled to finally revisit this moment.” The moment was the summer of 1969, when an eight-year-old Branagh’s life was changed forever by the Troubles, the decades-long political conflict between Irish Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. “I found that this lockdown really triggered something for me that reminded me of a fragility in our lives,” Branagh tells Vanity Fair. Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast” is a semi-autobiographical poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital. Winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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