Binge on life. Purge negativity. Starve guilty feelings. Restrict unhappy thoughts. Count blessings, not calories. The only weight you ever need to lose is the weight of the world on your shoulders.
People Of Color Recreate Iconic Movie Posters
Fuck your theme. Seriously. You all need this on your blog. And hey, this is aimed at women AND men tyvm
Young Ghanaian Actor Abraham Attah Wins Best New Young Actor Award At TIFF For “Beasts Of No Nation” Role.
Currently making its rounds at various international film festivals, first premiering at the Venice and Telluride film festivals, Cary Fukunaga’s screen adaptation of Nigerian writer Uzodinma Iweala’s 2005 novel “Beasts Of No Nation” is already being tipped as a potential Oscar nominee by some reviewers. Having had its first press screening at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, the film won an incredibly important award as 14-year-old Ghanaian actor Abraham Attah, a street vendor who was cast through an open call in Accra, received the “Marcello Mastroianni Award for for Best New Young Actor or Actress” for his role of Agu, the film’s protagonist.
“Attah plays the role with such convincing reality you’d swear he had been in front of the camera for years prior,” noted Jason Guerrasio of Business Insider.
The first original narrative motion picture from Netflix, who will exclusively be distributing the film, much to the ire of major cinema chains in the US, Beasts was written, shot, directed, and produced by Fukunaga, seven years in the making. Centered around Agu, a young boy whose life is shaken up and turned upside down in the worst ways after being recruited as a child soldier by Idris Ebla’s mercenary character, many fear that the story falls into the dangerous narrative of gruesome war torn films set in African countries. However, critics seem to rate this film far above others of the same genre for Fukunaga’s careful portrayal of a childhood so quickly and so violently gone awry:
“We become immersed in Agu’s family…Mostly we see the little moments that define childhood and on which familial love and relationships are built, which in other hands might be saccharine, but which Fukunaga never wrings for cheap emotion.” - Jada Yuan, Vulture.
“Beasts is unusual, in that so few films are made about children, and upsetting, in that it’s about children in peril — and subjecting others to it. 2002’s City of God is, perhaps, the most famous example of this troubling sub-genre. But the one that is most apt is probably War Witch, a Canadian drama from that same year that is set in the Congo and, like Beasts, shows the horrifying ways in which a happy child can wind up as a ruthless soldier in Africa; it was rightly nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar.” - Scott Feinberg, THR.
Called ‘incredible’ by Yahoo, sitting with a comfortable 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and not too far away from a well-rounded eight out of ten on IMDb, “Beasts of No Nation” opens at selected cinemas and online on October 16th.
We just hope we get to see more of Attah in the future as far too many young African stars in films of this nature seem to disappear as quickly as they catapulted into our consciousness.
Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Soundcloud | Mixcloud
stoicmike