Year: 2020 Runtime: 83 Minutes Director: Scott Ressler By Tom Moore Touching on a unique side of the effects climate change has on the Arctic, “The Last Ice” delves into a voice and community greatly affected by this issue that’s often not heard — that of the Inuit. The directorial debut of cinematographer Scott Ressler, “The Last Ice” adds a deeply human element to the … Continue reading Take One Action Film Festival: “The Last Ice”
Year: 2020 Runtime: 107 Minutes Director: Alexandra Dean Stars: Paris Hilton By Mique Watson “That’s hot.” Need I say anything else? This is a phrase that belongs to Paris Hilton, a woman whose name alone has sold oceans of perfume, mountains of skin care products, and a lifestyle of obscene materialism. Paris is the first woman — perhaps ever — to be famous for merely … Continue reading Review: “This Is Paris”
Year: 2020 Runtime: 83 Minutes Directors: Femke van Velzen, Isle van Velzen By Tom Moore In “Prison for Profit,” documentarians Femke van Velzen and Isle van Velzen create a gut-wrenching exposé that centers on an investigative journalist’s findings about South Africa’s first privatized prison – where profit comes before safety. British private security firm G4S runs Mangaung prison, where journalist Ruth Hopkins investigated the treatment … Continue reading Take One Action Film Festival: “Prison For Profit”
In Their Own League 