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Greek-American-Directed Film “Butterfly” Shown at Prestigious Festival
A poster for the film “Butterfly”. Photo courtesy of Lazarus Lazarides.
The short film “Butterfly,” written, directed, and produced by Greek-American director Lazarus Lazarides, will be shown at the Maryland Film Festival on Friday, May 21.
“Butterfly,” which has been shown at a number of important film festivals and was named “Best Film” at the Mexico International Silent Film Festival in December 2020.
New film “Butterfly”
” width=”1080″>The synopsis of the film reads: “A repressed person, living in a city, confronts his internal struggle as it bleeds through into his public persona, creating a collision amongst external social norms, suppressed identity, and the surrealistic worlds of a distressed psyche.”
Hollywood has never been quick to change, especially when it comes to diversity: Ekwa Msangi
Committed to create multi-dimensional African heritage characters in her stories, Tanzanian-American filmmaker Ekwa Msangi in her debut feature Farewell Amor tells the deeply personal story of an Angolan immigrant family. Updated: December 15, 2020 1:16:05 pm
Ekwa Msangi s Farewell Amor offers a three-dimensional perspective of a family s attempt to make a fresh start. (Photo: Nadia Kist)
When an Angolan immigrant Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) is reunited with his wife Esther (Zainab Jah) and daughter Sylvia (Jayme Lawson) at the JFK airport after 17 years, the meeting is awkward. In fact, each of them remembers this meeting differently. Farewell Amor, a feature film written and directed by Ekwa Msangi, offers a three-dimensional perspective of a family’s attempt to make a fresh start. Inspired by the real-life struggle of her uncle and aunt to bui