Candid Cinema

  • SXSW 2020 Narrative Feature Competition: I’ll Meet You There Review

    SXSW 2020 Narrative Feature Competition: I’ll Meet You There Review

    BY: AMANDA GUARRAGI I’ll Meet You There is a family drama that follows the life of a Muslim – American family living in Chicago. The narrative is split into three stories based on the lives of each family member. The backstories all come together through conversations of Muslim culture and the Western ideologies being tested. There…

  • SXSW 2020 Documentary Feature Competition: We Don’t Deserve Dogs

    SXSW 2020 Documentary Feature Competition: We Don’t Deserve Dogs

    We Don’t Deserve Dogs is a heartwarming documentary about how much of an impact dogs make on humans. Director, Matthew Salleh travels around the globe and finds such intimate stories about dogs and their owners. Dogs are such incredible animals and we don’t realize how selfless they are. Unless you are a pet owner or genuinely…

  • SXSW 2020 (Documentary Spotlight): We Are As Gods

    SXSW 2020 (Documentary Spotlight): We Are As Gods

    PHOTOS COURTESY OF STEWART BRAND DOC BY: Amanda Guarragi  We Are As Gods is a documentary based on the legend Stewart Brand. Brand lived a very full life and began his journey at Stanford University, where he studied biology. During the late 1960s and early 70s, Brand developed the famous The Whole Earth Catalogue with the subheading,…

  • SXSW 2020: I Will Make You Mine Review

    SXSW 2020: I Will Make You Mine Review

    | Header Courtesy of Gray Hat Productions | BY: AMANDA GUARRAGI Lynn Chen’s directorial feature debut, I Will Make You Mine is a film about three women at different stages of their lives. Erika, Rachel and Yea-Ming all have one thing in common and his name is Goh. It is also the final instalment of…