Here’s a look for the trailer for the just recently completed film “Charlotte” by Chicago based filmmaker Angel Kristi Williams. The Baltimore native is a Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow, a winner of the Sony Pictures Diversity Fellowship and recently named one of ten Black directors to watch by Paste Magazine. In addition, she is currently a Mfa candidate in film directing at Columbia College Chicago. Her previous short film “The Christmas Tree” was screened at numerous film festivals here in the U.S. and overseas and her latest project Charlotte is a coming of age film which will make its first premiere next week in Chicago before hitting the film...
- 3/27/2015
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
I will admit that Seed & Spark is new to me, but for those of you out there who haven’t heard of it, it’s another crowd fundraising tool like Indiegogo and Kickstarter to help filmmakers raise money to realize their dreams. So if you’re a filmmaker with a dream, Seed & Spark might be another way for you to go, to make your dream a reality.And one filmmaker who has done that is Los Angeles-based Angel Kristi Williams, a Baltimore native and who received her Mfa graduate degree in filmmaking from Columbia College in Chicago in 2012, and the writer and director of a wonderfully moving short film, The Christmas Tree.Now Ms. Williams has returned to her native city to start...
- 3/6/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Yesterday, I wrote an item about the filmmaker Angel Kristi Williams’ crowd fundraising campaign for her new film project Charlotte (Here) and I mentioned her previous short film, The Christmas Tree.Having seen the film before, I still find it to be a quietly powerful, poignant, yet understated film about a father spending the day with his daughter who wants to do the right thing, yet circumstances come in the way.Ms Williams really has a keen eye for detail and subtle nuances, along with a great eye for locations. This is a Chicago that you never see on films and TV, far away from the usual North Michigan Ave or north side slickness.The filmmaker says that her relationship...
- 2/18/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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