“My Nephew Emmett” seeks to show a different perspective of what lead to the brutal murder of Emmett Louis Till in 1955. The film, one of the five nominees for the Best Live Action Short Oscar, is told from the point-of-view of Mose Wright, Emmett’s uncle that he was visiting in Mississippi. The film, which claimed a Gold Medal at the Student Academy Awards, is one of this year’s nominees at the Oscars for Best Live Action Short and marks the first bid by writer and director Kevin Wilson Jr.
The film opens with Mose showing Emmett how much cologne to apply but Emmett still puts on too much. While Emmett goes into town with his cousin, Maurice, Mose is told he needs to take a bath. When he goes to get water for the bath he encounters a neighbor at the pump. The neighbor says that he’s...
The film opens with Mose showing Emmett how much cologne to apply but Emmett still puts on too much. While Emmett goes into town with his cousin, Maurice, Mose is told he needs to take a bath. When he goes to get water for the bath he encounters a neighbor at the pump. The neighbor says that he’s...
- 3/1/2018
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’re reviewing each short category. See the Live Action section below and the other shorts sections here.
DeKalb Elementary – USA – 20 minutes
There’s a moment in Reed Van Dyk’s DeKalb Elementary where the young, mentally unstable white male shooter (Bo Mitchell’s Steven Hall) exits the school in search of a suicide-by-cop scenario. He opens fire on the police — receiving bullets in return — until the courageously calm black female receptionist (Tarra Riggs’ Cassandra Rice) asks him to come back in so as not to hurt himself. It’s a surreal exchange because you place yourself in her situation and realize you would probably start silently praying that the cops do grant his wish. This whole ordeal is over if they succeed at shooting him dead. The lockdown ends, the scared children in their classrooms remain safe, and another gun-toting domestic terrorist is off the street forever.
DeKalb Elementary – USA – 20 minutes
There’s a moment in Reed Van Dyk’s DeKalb Elementary where the young, mentally unstable white male shooter (Bo Mitchell’s Steven Hall) exits the school in search of a suicide-by-cop scenario. He opens fire on the police — receiving bullets in return — until the courageously calm black female receptionist (Tarra Riggs’ Cassandra Rice) asks him to come back in so as not to hurt himself. It’s a surreal exchange because you place yourself in her situation and realize you would probably start silently praying that the cops do grant his wish. This whole ordeal is over if they succeed at shooting him dead. The lockdown ends, the scared children in their classrooms remain safe, and another gun-toting domestic terrorist is off the street forever.
- 2/7/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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