I know he always there for me. An official trailer has debuted for an acclaimed indie documentary called
Two Gods, marking the feature directorial debut of Brooklyn-based filmmaker
Zeshawn Ali. This initially premiered at last year s Hot Docs Film Festival, and it also stopped by the Camden & Montclair Film Fests.
Two Gods is a documentary film that tells the story of Hanif, a Muslim casket maker and ritual body washer in Newark who takes two young men from the neighborhood – Furquan and Naz – under his wing to teach them how to live better lives. Shot in exquisite black and white, Zeshawn Ali s auspicious feature debut is a lyrical meditation on the importance of community and passing down generational knowledge through faith, brotherhood and redemption. One of the many quotes in this trailer says it is a masterpiece waiting to be discovered and from the looks of it, that might just be true. This doc is worth your time. Take a look below.
If you could upload your mind into a computer, would you? How AI is making science fiction real In a new documentary, A.rtificial I.mmortality filmmaker Ann Shin explores whether AI can make us live forever and what that would mean
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Publishing date: Apr 28, 2021 • 16 hours ago • 6 minute read • Ann Shin (at right) poses with Erica, robot creation of Hiroshi Ishiguru. Photo by Photo by Iris Ng
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A.rtificial I.mmortality, the opening-night film at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival, is a fascinating foray deep into the realms of artificial intelligence, machine learning and biotechnology. But for filmmaker Ann Shin, the starting point was much more personal. Ann’s father is suffering from dementia. The wondrous machine that is
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It was a beautiful, sunny spring morning in 2019. I awoke to a message from my friend, Richard Vaughan, who was in Toronto and had caught the opening of a new film at the Hot Docs Film Festival the previous night. Hey, did you hear? he wrote. We just won the queer lottery: you and I are in a documentary with Fran Lebowitz!
It was a typical jovial message from Richard, my friend who maintained a prolific output, writing novels, nonfiction books, reviews, poetry and plays. The film he was messaging about was