Titled "Our Rhineland," and directed by Faren Humes, the 2013 short film is set in 1937 in Nazi Germany, as Germans of mixed race are being rounded up and rendered sterile. In the wake of this tragedy, 2 sisters struggle over what to do in response to the act - Sofia wants to fight, while Marta would rather find a way to just survive, as their familial bond is tested. The short stars Sabrina Alashi, Dasie Thames & Josef Urban. It was both a a Student Emmy winner, as well as a Student DGA winner, among other accolades. It's available to watch online courtesy of the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts. Watch the 16-minute short below:...
- 10/13/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Read More: Six Second Screenwriting Advice and Why All Screenwriting Books are a Con Faren Humes is a writer, director, and educator from Miami who recently participated in the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive | Miami, which is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Her short film "Our Rhineland" has garnered broad acclaim, including a Director's Guild of America Student Film Award and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College Television Award. Humes studied filmmaking at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts. She lives and teaches film in Miami, Fl, where she develops stories inspired by her place of origin. To paint the picture: it's 9:28 a.m. on a Saturday in Miami. I walk into a nondescript building that's hosting the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive, which is supported by the Knight Foundation. I expected to be nervous; a ball of jitters once I walked through the door.
- 5/1/2015
- by Faren Humes
- Indiewire
It was just last month that I featured a well-made short film titled Our Rhineland, directed by Faren Humes (a filmmaker to certainly be aware of and watch), which is set in 1937, under the Third Reich, as Germans of mixed race were being rounded up and rendered sterile. It followed the struggles of 2 sisters with opposing views on how to respond to this act - one wanting to fight; the other just wanting to live.I recently learned of another film - this one a feature film - set during the same time, place and circumstances.Titled Rheinland, the film hails from Mokoari Street Productions, and is being written and directed by Lemohang Jeremiah...
- 7/25/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Titled Our Rhineland, and directed by Faren Humes (a filmmaker to certainly be aware of and watch - photo on the left), the film is set in 1937, under the Third Reich, as Germans of mixed race are being rounded up and rendered sterile. Two sisters struggle over what to do in response to the act - Sofia wants to fight, while Marta would rather just survive, and their bond is tested. The short stars Sabrina Alashi, Dasie Thames & Josef Urban. It's both a a Student Emmy winner as well as a Student DGA winner, amongst other accolades. It's now available to watch online courtesy of the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts. Watch the 16-minute...
- 6/24/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The 2013 installment of the Women of African Descent Film Festival is right around the corner - a one-day film festival that takes place Today, Saturday, May 4th, right here in Brooklyn, NY, at Long Island University, in the Spike Lee Screening Room (on Flatbush and Dekalb Avenues). Included in the eclectic lineup are Little Brother: A Do Right Man by S&A writer Jasmin Tiggett and producer Nicole Franklin (this is the 3rd chapter in their Little Brother series); also Faren Humes' intriguing Nazi Germany-set Our Rhineland, Shirley Bruno's coming-of-age Haitian family tale The Things I See, Barbara Rick's documentary on...
- 5/4/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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