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We are excited to announce that our feature documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ is now available on Amazon Prime to buy or rent. After an amazing 3 year deal with HBO MAX our American distributors swiftly placed on another awesome streamer. ENJOY!
The film is also available in the UK, Ireland and Australia on Amazon too!

We had an amazing shoot in the Catskills for our short film RUTH. I am so excited to bring Rachael Rogans important script to life and I cannot wait to share the finished film and begin our film festival journey in the coming months. Watch this space.

Massive CONGRATULATIONS! to Matt Bailey for his feature script KING OF THE FRESHMAN on THE BLACKLIST! Matt is the screenwriter for our psychological thriller LINEAGE. Go Bailey!

We are thrilled to announce that we are working with an influencer and norse mythology consultant ~ Wisdom of Odin, Jacob Toddson on the movie. Check out the offers on our website home page on how you can get involved to help make this film come to life! Indie film is challenging and takes a village and we hope the norse mythology Community will be as excited as we are about this collaboration. Thanks!

After a massively successful London Jazz Dance Intensive last week, we are now gearing up for our TEACHERS workshop in New York. The 3-day workshop runs from August 16th – 18th/10am -5pm daily. The workshop takes an in-depth pedagogy of jazz dance with industry professionals – exploring an authentic way to teach the roots of jazz dance. We are joined by Thomas F.DeFrantz, Robin Gee, Chanon Judson, Maurice Watson, Catherine Foster and Sekou McMiller. Click the link fro further information or email [email protected]

We are super excited to be producing our 2nd LONDON UPROOTED Jazz Dance Intensive next week. May 28th – 31st at Jacksons Lane Studio in Highgate. We have an incredible group of teaching artists from the UK, Germany and the USA. 4 full days of dancing, learning and exploring all the roots and branches of jazz dance. From the screen and into the studio, the jazz intensive is truly like no other.
For more info email: [email protected]

Team ‘FORKED’ had a wonderful time in Seattle at the SIFF 50th Anniversary. Two great screenings with an amazing audience response.
Thank you SIFF – Until the next time. #SIFF50th

Thanks for the shout out FORBES! The team cannot wait to be screening at the 50th Seattle International Film Festival next week. May 15th at 6pm and 16th at 1.30pm. See you soon Seattle!

We are beyond thrilled to have been invited to the awesome Seattle International Film Festival next month. Screening on Wednesday May 15th at 6pm at the Majestic and Thursday May 16th at 1:30pm at Siff Cinema Uptown. The team will be attending – come say hi! #SIFF2024 #producer #SusanFenigerForked #featuredocumentary

I am excited to be part of an important short film called RUTH – written by and starring Rachael Worthington. A female led team and cast telling an important story about women. Head to the films page to read more and donate what you can! #producer #importantstories

We are thrilled to be the closing night film for the wonderful Poppy Jasper International Film Festival on Wednesday April 17th – 5pm screening at the Granada Theatre in Hollister, NoCal.Thanks for the invite and ENJOY!

Team ‘Susan Feniger.FORKED’ had a fantastic time last week at The Sonoma International Film Festival. Chef Feniger was presented with a special award for Culinary Excellence and the audience loved every minute of the film along with a delicious Checf Feniger curated dinner. Thank you Sonoma!

We are thrilled to have our feature documentary ‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’ be invited to be a part of the Greenwich International Film Festival – Women’s Stories Film Series. Screening online March 29th – 31st for Women’s Month! Click the Link to their website.

We are excited to be headed to the Sonoma International Film Festival on March 21st with our feature documentary ‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’ ~ A culinary disaster film ~ Susan is being honored with an awards dinner with an excellence in Culinary Award! So proud of this warm, funny and moving documentary. Here’s a Broadway World write up!

Next stop on our feature documentary’s festival journey is DOC UTAH on March 2nd at 6pm. Enjoy Utah! #filmfestivals #docutah

A wonderful podcast from our panel at Food Tanks Sundance event for our feature ‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’

At a recent Summit during the Sundance Film Festival, Food Tank and 360 Communications presented a day of programming focused on food, environment, and the arts. This episode of “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” features a panel from the event about the new documentary “Susan Feniger. FORKED.” The film follows award-winning Chef Susan Feniger’s passionate struggle and quest to bring global street food under one roof in the form of a new LA restaurant: STREET. During the panel, Chef Feniger, Liz Lachman, the film’s Writer, Director, and Producer; and Lisa Donmall-Reeve, Producer and Creative Director at LDR Creative LLC, discuss the male-dominated culinary industry that Chef Feniger navigated throughout her career; the friendship between Chef Feniger and Chef Mary Sue Milliken that is central to the documentary; and the story of how the film came to be. #documentary #womeninfilm #foodtank #sundance

We are excited to announce our feature documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ will be releasing in Australia on February 1 st on AMAZON. Thank you to our international sales team – Kaleidoscope Entertainment. Enjoy Australia!

Our feature documentary ‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’ was invited to screen at the FOOD TANK event at Sundance this past weekend. We had an awesome crowd and wonderful ‘fireside chat’ after the screening. What an awesome experience to be a part of this wonderful organization and iconic festival.

We had a wonderful time at Palm Springs International Film Festival with Liz Lachman’s feature documentary ‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’- Three full houses and wonderful audience reception. Saturday we were lucky enough to have our post film panel moderated by the CEO of KCRW, Jennifer Ferro. Next Stop FOOD TANK at SUNDANCE!

We had a wonderful time at the Coronado Island Film Festival last week! Sold out screening followed by a wonderful Q&A moderated by the artistic director Merridee Book and finishing with Chef Susan Feniger’s delicious STREET food. #CIFF2023

Thank you Austin.com – we are #2 on their list with our feature documentary ‘SUSAN FENIGER.FORKED’ Fun read!! #austindotcom #aff2023

Come and join us at Coronado Island Film Festival for some Culinary Cinema – our screening is on November 10th at 3.30pm followed by happy hour bites with Chef Susan Feniger. #CIFF2023 #culinarycinema

Next stop for our feature documentary ‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’ is the wonderful Ojai Film Festival. Sunday November 5th at 1pm. Come join us in this idyllic town! #OjaiFF #FORKEDtheFILM

Team ‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’ enjoyed a sold out screening at the Austin Film Festival this past week. With a beautifully moderated Q&A post screening with CBS Trevor Scott. Thank you to the entire AFF team – we had a great time! Second Screening November 1st at 1.30pm – Galaxy Theatre. #AFF2023

Thank you to Liz Lopez at True Reviews for covering our feature documentary ‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’ at the Austin Film Festival. 5 Stars is truly awesome!

A big Thank you to everyone at Newport Beach Film Festival for hosting such a great VIP event and screening for our West Coast Premiere!

Director Liz Lachman and Chef Susan Feniger chat to Aaron Michael Sanchez about out LA premiere of their documentary ‘Susan Feniger.FORKED’ screening at LA Femme International Film Festival on Saturday 21st October at 2pm. Join us at the Regal LA Live Cinema, DTLA.

We are thrilled to have won the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at the Reeling Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival. Thank you to all who attended and voted! #REELING2023 #awards #bestdocumentary

Thank you to Xiao daCunha at the Chicago Reader for this wonderful review of our feature documentary ‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’ Our next festival screening is October 17th at 8pm at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Port Theatre, for our West Coast Premiere!

We are thrilled to announce that our feature documentary ‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’ will be screening at the Austin Film Festival. The festival runs October 26th – November 2nd with our screenings on October 27th at 3.30pm and November 1st at 1.30pm. We are looking forward to immersing ourselves in this awesome festival.
Austin here we come! #AFF2023

A big Thank you to REELING: The 41st Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival ~ We had a wonderful time screening our feature documentary ‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’ this past weekend. Next stop Tallgrass. October 7th – See you there!

‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’ will be having its LA Premiere at the fabulous LA Femme International Film Festival on Saturday October 21st at 2pm at the Regal Cinemas LA Live, Auditorium 14. What a great #westcoast #filmfestival run this wonderful feature documentary us having! #LAFEMMEFF2023

After a successful LA premiere last weekend we are excited to announce that Greg Tito’s short film
‘Ex-Husband’ is off to the Orlando Film Festival. The festival runs October 26th – November 2nd at CMX Plaza Cinema Cafe in Orlando. Go Team #EH

We had an amazing time at the Silicon Beach Film Festival this past weekend. Celebrating in the films LA premiere at the prestigious TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The cast and crew came out in full force including writer and EP Greg Tito and lead talent Danielle Beckmann and Bobby Moynihan (SNL) Next stop Orlando! #shortfilm #siliconbeachfilmfest #chinesetheatre #producer

We thrilled to announce the West Coast Premiere of our feature documentary ‘Susan Feniger.FORKED’ at the Newport Beach Film Festival – Screening at The New Port Theatre on Tuesday October 17th at 8pm. Tickets go on sale from September 12th. See you in Newport! #NBFF2023

We are so excited to be heading back to one of our favorite film festivals in October – Tallgrass – Stubbornly Independent – 21st film festival. Our screening is on Saturday October 7th at 10am. I will be there in person from the 5th! See you there! #tallgrass23 #TFF2023 #documentaryfilmmakers

We are excited to announce our the short film ‘Ex-Husband’ will be screening at the TCL Chinese Theatre as part of the Silicon Beach Film Festival next month. Saturday September 9th at 9.30pm. The audience is in for a treat with this dark comedy written by Greg Tito, directed by Aubrey Smyth and starring Danielle Beckmann, Bobby Moynihan, Malynda Hale and Justine Burks.

We are thrilled to announce the WORLD PREMIERE of Liz Lachman’s feature documentary ‘Susan Feniger. FORKED’ at the REELING : The 41st Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival next month.
Our Screening is Sunday 24th September at 4.30pm at the Landmark Century Center Cinema in Chicago. #Reeling2023! Click the link to book tickets if you are in town!

Kevin Brofsky’s short film ‘The World is Lit by Lightning’ is having its New York Premiere at the Chain Film Festival on August 10th 2023. A play adapted into a short film and directed by Greg Roderick. Go Team!

We have a had an amazing summer with both our UPROOTED jazz dance summer intensive courses in New York and London. Thank you to all the amazing educators, students and our NYC partner Broadway Dance center. This is just the beginning! #letsdance ~ SO many awesome photos – Pictured is the NYC crew with Al Blackstone at Broadway Dance Center.

We are excited to announce that the short film Ex-Husband I worked on is an Official Selection of the Lift Off Global Network Film Festival in Los Angeles. Virtual screening times and more information coming soon. Congrats to the whole team! #producer #shortfilm

We are so excited to be working with Blu Remedi Media on a new feature documentary called ‘MC KID’ (working title) A film about the incredible 2016 Tony Award winner for excellence in education – Marilyn McCormick. An inner city Detroit public high school drama teacher who, against all odds, created a direct pipeline from Detroit to Broadway, Hollywood and beyond.
We are currently fundraising – donations and private equity investors. Click the link to donate or email me directly if you would like to know more and get involved!

Great article by Crystal Nicholls published today by Dance Teacher magazine – Read all about our feature documentary’s educational mission. NYC and London – look out – this summer is going to be incredible!

We are excited to announce that our educational arm of our feature documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ has two summer jazz dance intensives. The first is in partnership with Broadway Dance Center in New York City on June 17th and 18th and the second in London, UK, at the Marylebone Theatre on July 10,11th and 12th. We have incredible faculty’s lined up for both cities plus screenings of the film with Q&A discussion panels. Let’s Dance!

We are excited to announce that our feature documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ is now available to rent or buy in the UK on Amazon, iTunes, Apple, Sky and Rakuten. Thanks to our sales agents and UK distributors Kaleidoscope Entertainment.

We are thrilled to announce that our feature documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ is partnering with our educational distributors GOOD DOCS. The film is available to stream and/or buy worldwide from any and all educational institutions.
Thank you Good Docs and Enjoy!

Our director, Daryl Getman, and cinematographer, Matt Simpkins – had a great time at the New York screening of our short film ‘Double Exposure’

For the first time in over 2 years the creative team of our feature documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ were able to be together IN-PERSON for a screening! The Jacksonville Dance Theatre invited us to be a part of their dance festival. Our co-creator/choreographer, Zak Nemorin taught the students and then the film played on a big screen. We are now booking in-person live educational events for the film. Click on the link to find out more! Thank you to JDFF for the invite, we all had a wonderful time!

I was able to get out to the desert in person and represent our short film ‘Double Exposure’ Thanks for having us Borrego Springs FF. I love this festival.#BSFF9 #filmfestival

Thank you Cultural Attache for selecting UPROOTED as one of your Best Bets selections. Now streaming in HBOMax – US ONLY.

Thank you Yahoo! For the including ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ as one of the top 5 documentaries to watch on HBOMax.

Thank you for the shout out Variety! Head to HBOMax to watch our feature documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’

We are excited to announce that our feature Documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ will be streaming on HBOMax from February 1st in the US. Thank you to WarnerMedia OneFifty and the entire cast, crew and investors. We are very proud of this film!

I am excited to announce that I am joining the talented writer/director Liz Lachman as her producer on her feature documentary ‘Forked’ A verite documentary film following award-winning celebrity chef Susan Feniger on her first solo restaurant venture ‘STREET’
More details coming soon.

I am excited to be joining an awesome team of creatives to help produce Greg Tito’s short dark comedy film ‘Ex-Husband’ Head to the films page to learn more 🙂
#shortfilm #producer #brooklynquarter #ldrcreative #womeninfilm

We are excited to announce that the amazing talent of Trieste Kelly Dunn will be leading our feature film LINEAGE playing the role of ANNIE. Trieste has had a hugely successful career to date including – United 93, Banshee and Blindspot. Welcome to the team Trieste!

After a busy fall festival season – we kick off the winter with the amazing Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival – virtual and in-person. In-person on November 15th (1pm EST) and 17th (7.30pm EST)
Followed closer by the International Black Film Festival Nashville (virtual only) Dec 2-5th. Screening on December 5th at 12pm CST.

After a busy fall season and amazing virtual screening at the SOHO film festival, our short film ‘Double Exposure’ is heading into the winter with two more great film festivals. YOFI fest has an in-person screening on Sunday November 14th at 12pm EST and at Studio City International Film Festival on November 18th at 5pm. Go Team! #sohofest12 #yofifest2021 #studiocityFF2021

We were over the moon for our awesome editor Joan Gill Amorim to win Best Editor at The Savannah SCAD film festival last month. Thank you SCAD and Congratulations Joan!!!

It is always so humbling to be recognised – We have recently won three awards for ‘Uprooted’
Master of the Arts Film Festival- Best Dance and Music Documentary
Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival – Audience Choice Feature Film
Black Star International Film Festival – Best Documentary
Truly Grateful!

Busy winter festival season for our feature documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’
The film will be online and in-person at the following film festivals:
Capitol DC Film Festival and Cascadia in parts of Canada – Oct 9th in DC at 2.15pm.
Heartland International Film Festival – in-person October 10th and Virtually October 7th – 17th
Sans Souci Film Festival – Virtual in CO only – October 14th – 23rd
Portland Dance Film Festival – in-person October 17th at 3pm Virtual OR only
Twin Cities Film Festival – October 21st – 30th MN only
Tall Grass Film Festival – In-person October 23rd at 10am – Producer panel 10/22 at 1:30pm (LDR in attendance) Virtual KS only – October 24th – 29th
Bushwick Film Festival – Virtual only – October 20th – 24th
Savannah SCAD Film Festival – In-person October 27th with LDR and DoP Matt Simpkins in attendance. Virtual GA only October 23rd – 30th
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival – In-person November 15th at 1pm and 17th at 7.30pm. Virtual November 4th – 21st
International Black Film Festival Nashville – December 2nd – 5ht – Screening TBA
ENJOY!

You can catch our awesome short film ‘Double Exposure’ in person and virtually at the following film festivals:
Crown Heights Film Festival in BK – In-person October 9th at 7pm
Charlotte Film Festival – in-person October 16th at 3.40pm
Newport Beach Film Festival – in-person October 23rd at 6.15pm
YoFi Film Festival – Virtual – November 5th – 21st
We are also a Semi Finalist for the Dumbo Film Festival – updates soon!

So excited we get to go back in person this year with our 4th film ‘Double Exposure’ – Thank you Charlotte Film Festival and the Charlotte film Society. October 13th-17th 2021 – Screening date TBA.

We are thrilled to have been asked to screen at The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The film will be online the week of Sept 8th.

We are thrilled and honoured to have been awarded the Best Documentary Award at the Pan African Film Festival for our feature documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ Huge Congratulations to the entire Uprooted team!

We are thrilled to announce that we will be screening at the following film festivals in the coming weeks :
New Hope Film Festival,PA – in-person ONLY on Thursday July 29th at 8.45pm.
Bentonville Film Festival, AK – virtually and in-person on Friday August 6th at 10.30am
Black Star Film Festival, PA – Virtually (USA) and in-person on Sunday August 8th at 1.45pm
Bronze Lens Film Festival, GA – Virtually (GA only)

Thank you to NYIWFF for selecting ‘Double Exposure’ to be in a finalist for July 2021! We will keep you updated if we move to the next level.

Our feature documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ was lucky enough to be invited back to Dance on Camera film festival this year to have an in-person screening at the Walter Reade Theatre at the Lincoln Center. Thank you Dance films Association and Film at the Lincoln Centre for making this happen, and to all the cast, crew and supported you came out! What an incredible night.

We had an amazing time screening at the Hamilton New York International Film Festival on July 24th. Our next in-person is set for October 9th at 7pm at Crown Heights Film Festival in Brooklyn.

Due to our Best of Fest Audience award win last year – the awesome Dance on Camera Film Festival have invited UPROOTED back to screen live, in-person at the Walter Reade theatre, at the Lincoln Center as part of their 49th film festival. Thank you Dance film Association and Film at the Lincoln Center. We cannot wait for July 18th 7pm!!

Thank you Women’s Comedy Film Festival – Chicago – Double Exposure won the Audience Award for the favourite short film (virtual) Go Team! And Thank you to all who voted.

We are excited that the Chicago Women’s Comedy film festival invited our short film ‘Double Exposure’ to be a part of their film festival. An awesome hybrid event. Thank you @womenscomedy and @cinema_life_org.

Thank you to everyone at the Sedona International Film Festival. A fantastic in-person experience with wonderful films, filmmakers, events and staff – not to mention the stunning backdrop of Arizona! What an awesome experience. Thank you for including out feature documentary ‘Uprooted’ #sedonafilmfest #uprooted

Dp Matt Simpkins and I had a great time at the Portland Comedy Film Festival drive in last week for our short film ‘Double Exposure’ – which was also lucky enough to nominated for best romantic comedy! Thanks #portlandcomedyfest.

Thrilled to have both ‘Double Exposure’ and ‘Uprooted’ a part of The Columbia Film Festival next week. Uprooted being part of a special in person presentation on Monday June 21st at the Merriweather theatre, Maryland. Head to the festivals website for more info.

UPROOTED screened live at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood as part of the Micheaux Film Festival, winning the Outstanding Feature Documentary award!! Our producer Lisa Donmall-Reeve was present to receive the award in person.

We are more than thrilled to have been won two awards from the Independent Shorts Wards Film Festival – Platinum for Best Rom Com film and Bronze Award for our director, Daryl Getman – Best Female (first time) Director Award. Very Proud and Grateful. Go Team!

We are more than thrilled to have been selected for the Pan African Film Festival this month. We are also hugely honored to have a jury nomination for best feature documentary. The Festival runs from February 28th – March 14th and will be virtual and available across the entire US. Head to their website for more information. #PAFF2021

We so excited that ‘Double Exposure’ has been officially selected for the LA Women in Film Festival!
More news coming soon on virtual and LIVE screenings. #LAfilmfest2021

The awesome Bill Meyers chatted to our director, Khadifa Wong on February 12th 2021 – Great conversation! Bill Meyers Inspires!

A live film festival – The Oxford film festival is having a hybrid event – both live and virtual. Uprooted will be in the open air Tent Theatre – March 24- 28th and then virtually April. Geoblocked to the state of Mississippi
#oxford18 #off2021

We are thrilled to have been selected for three Independent Shorts Awards this month. Our director Daryl Getman for first female director, The film for best Romantic Comedy and Alex Lacamoire for his music composition. More news when the results come out! #LAindieshortswards

We are honored to have been included in Milwaukee Films Black History Month special screenings.
We will be part of the Culture, Community and Politics week. February 15th – 21st
#blackhistorymonth #milaukeefilm

We are thrilled to announce our feature documentary, Uprooted’s, Canadian Premiere will be at the awesome Toronto Black Film Festival – February 10th – 21st. #tbff9 #tbff2021 #canadianpremiere

A great way to kick off 2021 with another festival selection for ‘Double Exposure’ – Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema will run from March 8th – 14th 2021. #iifc2021

We are thrilled to have been invited to be a part of this year’s Beirut Art Film Festival. Against all the odds they are making this event happen LIVE! December 3rd – 9th at Theatre Monnot in Lebanon.
Thank you for the invite – Such an honor! ‘Uprooteds’ first LIVE screening.
#BAFF2020

We are excited to announce ‘Double Exposure’ won its first award at Coronado Island Film Festival – awarding our female director-writer, Daryl Getman and myself as producer, with their Dale St Denis ‘Fearless Female Filmmaker Award’ We are dedicating the award to all the amazing and fearless women in the film, both cast and crew! Thank you Coronado Island Film Festival for the honor. #CIFF2020 #awards2020 #womeninfilm

Thank you to the team at The Deleted Scene Podcast for a great interview with our director, Khadifa Wong.

Thank you to Marianka Swain for a wonderful interview with our Co-creator, Zak Nemorin for the Dancing Times November Issue.
Photo by Clark Thomas Photography.

Uprooted – HotFoot Magazine Interview
Thank you to One Dance UK for including ‘Uprooted’ and our Co-creator Zak Nemorin in this UK Black History Dance special article this month.
“We can only move forward if we understand where we came from. We owe so much to the sharing of culture (especially Black cultures)” Zak Nemorin

We are thrilled to announce that our short film ‘Double Exposure’ has been accepted into two more film festivals –
The Big Apple Film Festival – screening November 13th – 15th and The Atlanta Comedy Film Festival screening December 6th – both LIVE and online.

We are so excited that our short film ‘Double Exposure’ gets to premiere at the awesome Coronado Island Film Festival in November (11-15th) #CIFF2020

Uprooted – Selected for Sound Unseen film festival
We are thrilled to announce ‘Uprooted’ has been officially selected for Sound Unseen film festival, which will take place simultaneously in Austin,Texas and Minneapolis – Novemver 11-15th 2020

We are excited to announce that UPROOTED has been officially selected to be a part of the Hamptons Doc Fest – Dec 5th – 13th 2020 #hamptonsdocfest2020

We are truly humbled and grateful to the amazing response from the San Francisco Dance film festival audience. An award from the audience means the most! #sfdff #awardwinner

Thank you to Dance Films Association and Films at the Lincoln Center for hosting the World premier of our feature documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’
We were thrilled to pick up the Best of Fest Feature Audience Choice Award!

We are thrilled that our short film ‘Free’ has been selected for this years YoFi film festival! Taking place November 7-15th. #YoFi2020

With thanks to the Northwest film forum ‘Uprooted’ will be screening, for one night only, on November 6th at 7 pm PST, at The Earshot Jazz Festival. Available only in Washington State.
#earshotjazz #nwfilmforum

Uprooted – 500 Days of Film Review
Thank you to Jane Douglas-Jones at 500 Days of Film for the review of our feature documentary ‘Uprooted’
“Khadifa Wong’s fascinating and thought provoking documentary could not feel more timely”
Photo by Vibecke Dahle

Uprooted – Nominated at Raindance 2020
Raindance announced their festival line up and our feature documentary ‘Uprooted’ is a Nominee for Best Documentary Feature. Go Team Uprooted! #internationalpremiere #raindancefilmfest2020 November 4th at 7pm and 6th at 1pm. UK only. Festival Runs October 28th – November 7th 2020

Uprooted – The British Blacklist Review
Thank you to Hannah Shury-Smith at The British Blacklist for this awesome 5 star, 90/100 review of our feature documentary ‘Uprooted’
“UPROOTED….is a timely and informative celebration of dance”
Photo by Daryl Getman

A big thank you to Alt-Africa for this feature article/interview with our documentary director, Khadifa Wong.
Photo by Vibecke Dahle

Thank you to Heather Desaulniers at Dance Tabs for this awesome review of ‘Uprooted’
Photo by Vibecke Dahle

Joe Muggs from the Sound of Life Team interviewed our creative team from ‘Uprooted’, Khadifa Wong, and Zak Nemorin.
Photo by : Vibecke Dahle

Uprooted director, Khadifa Wong had a live TV interview with Eve Jackson on France 24.

Our feature documentary director, Khadifa Wong, chatted with Lenore Luca at Brand Ambassador Select.
Photo by Ricardo Walker

Uprooted – Selected for Hot Springs DocumentaryFilm Festival 2020
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival selected ‘Uprooted’ for their 29th Annual Film Festival – October 9th – 17th 2020 #HSDFF29

We were thrilled to be asked to headline the San Francisco Dance Film Festival this coming October – 17th -23rd #westcoastpremiere #sfdff

Lyndsey Winship at The Guardian interviewed the director of ‘Uprooted’, Khadifa Wong and wrote a great article on the film.

Our feature documentary ‘Uprooted’ won the the jury award for Best Musical Documentary at the Rhode Island International Film Festival #RIIFF2020 #flickers38 #Grandprize – Thank you!

‘Uprooted’s third film festival screening was with Skyline Indie Film Festival Sept 10-13th ended with an astounding two awards! Festival Winner and Best of Fest Audience Choice. Thank you! We are so grateful! #sliff2020

Short Film ‘Free’ Festival Updates
Our Short film ‘Free’ will be screening simultaneously at Skyline Film Festival and Harlem International Film Festival September 10th-13th 2020

Uprooted Creative Team talk to the guys at Frame Form Podcast.
Check out a great interview with the team over at Frame Form podcast – Episode 5 – Sept 9th 2020 #frameform

Our feature documentary ‘Uprooted’ has been invited to screen at Skyline Indie Film Festival in Virginia 10th-13th Sept and Charlotte Film Festival 23rd-27th Both are virtual and state geo-blocked.

The creative team talked to Matthew Sherwood from Alamo Pictures, for their podcast series ‘Factual America’

We are excited to be screening at the Flickers Rhode Island International film festival. On demand on Friday 7th August 2020 at 4.30pm EST. USA only.

Brunch in Babel -Festival News
Our short film ‘Brunch in babel’ will be screened at the Chain Film Festival – August 6-16th 2020

Critic Sheri Linden wrote an awesome review on our film ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’
“Khadifa Wong’s ‘Uprooted’ couldn’t be more timely”

Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ was featured in The New Yorker Magazine. Full page feature about out world premiere at the Lincoln Center Dance on Camera Film Festival.
“…illuminates an often disrespected genre and a history as complex as that of race in America.”
Photo by Daryl Getman.

Dance Critic Crystal Nicholls wrote a wonderful review of our feature documentary ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ including an interview with director Khadifa Wong.
“this documentary will make you fall in love with jazz dance all over again”
Photo by Vibecke Dahle.

The creative team of ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’ had a chat with Bob Boross.

USA Today gave ‘Uprooted’ a mention about it’s World Premiere at the Lincoln Center Dance on Camera Film Festival screening.

Journalist Steve Kopian from UnSeen Films reviewed ‘Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’
“This is quite simply a delightful film that is full of life and motion.”
Photo by Daryl Getman

Critic Elizabeth Zimmer previewed the Lincoln Center Dance on Camera Film Festival and ‘uprooted – The Journey of Jazz Dance’

Critic Brian Seibert previewed ‘Uprooted’ for the Dance on Camera film festival.
“….no film in the festival is more urgent…”