It's hard to believe, but prior to getting the role of Patsey in Steve McQueen's "12 Years A Slave," Academy Award nominee Lupita Nyong'o had only one film credit to her name, and you can watch it below. "East River," a 2008 short film directed by Marc Grey ("Night Before the Morning Sun"), and produced by Kozak Films, tells the story of a lone traveler (Tommaso Spinelli) who meets a girl, played by Nyong'o, and fashions a relationship with her, only to be let down in the end. Shot without dialogue by cinematographer Kamil Plocki and edited by Thomas Lindsay, "East River," per Grey's description, is "about the relationship between physical and emotional space." Check it out: ...
- 2/12/2014
- by Emerson Gordon
- Indiewire
This is another edition of Short Starts, where we present a weekly short film(s) from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career. We can add this week’s Short Starts selection to last week’s list of Movies to Watch After You’ve Seen 12 Years a Slave. There, I included mention of In My Genes, a documentary about albinos in Africa directed by Lupita Nyong’o, the breakout star of the new Steve James film. Now I’d like to share her only prior film acting gig, an award-winning silent short called East River. It was made by Israel-based writer-director Marc Grey and follows the inter-borough travels of a man (Tommaso Spinelli) who has just arrived in New York City. Nyong’o plays a Brooklyn photographer he encounters and may or may not have a real relationship with. The confusion is more mystifying than frustrating. The simple synopsis that comes with the short offers...
- 11/3/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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