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Quincy Minor's Fall 2006 Production One short STIGMA premiered at NUDGE last December blasted into the festival circuit on February 1, 2007 at the Texas Black Film Festival in Dallas. In June the film screened at the Hollywood Black Film Festival and in August at the San Francisco Black Film Festival. STIGMA follows an HIV positive patient whose medical status is disclosed by a homophobic clinic receptionist, preventing him from receiving treatment.•
Fall 2007 will find Rhitu Basu as a first year student in the graduate film program at the University of Texas at Austin, but she's still earning recognition Fall 2005 Production Two film CRISIS. Her 2006 festival screenings include: the Golden Star Shorts Festival, Hollywood, CA, SXSW Austin Film Society Showcase, the Eugene Film Festival (Eugene, Oregon), FAIF Film Festival, Hollywood, CA, and the South Asian International Film Festival in New York. CRISIS examines racism revealed by fear of terrorism when two office mates are trapped in an elevator.•
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The mock commercial won BEST COMMMERCIAL at the 2007 Bare Bones International Film Festival in April, and screened in June at the Staten Island Film Festival, the BEFilm Underground Film Festival and the Winnipeg International Film Festival. Since then the film has sceened at the TriMedia Film Festival, Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival, Thin Line Film Festival, Jersey Shore Film Festival (3rd Place Jury Award) and.Pencil Head's Dusk Til Dawn Film Festival. Randy's observations of technology resulted in the perfect competitive short: "Over
the past decade, communication technology has changed our
culture in both good and bad ways. People now routinely send and receive
emails regardless of time or location – a fact that allowed me
to coordinate 30 people in my first film. Yet this growing connectivity has an ironic side effect: it pulls us
away from our connections in the here and now. My friend interrupts
a heart-to-heart talk with me to take an important call. While I'm
trying to watch a movie, someone next to me plays with a glowing PDA. Maybe
ten years from now most of us will watch films wearing special glasses
and wireless headphones, joined only by a few friends in our
living rooms. If so, technology will have changed our culture once
again – for better and for worse. Whatever thoughts Totally Connected spark in you, I hope they come with grins - and that you're able to dodge any cell-phone talking, headset-wearing drivers who GPS-navigate your way."• Learn more about TOTALLY CONNECTED at Brown Rag Films |
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