One of the few remaining photos of Joy Hibbs shows her sitting at a kitchen table, grinning widely as she holds her infant son. Countless other snapshots and family keepsakes have been lost, ravaged by time or destroyed in the Bucks County fire that hid the tracks of the person who killed her 30 years ago. Charlie Hibbs keeps the photo on the wall of his home in Westport, Wash., a fishing .
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I think few would disagree that Frances McDormand is one of our greatest living actors. I also am inclined to believe that that same few have likely never seen a movie starring the acclaimed 63-year-old (who is also married to Joel Coen) and had no interest in seeing
Nomadland until after it won Best Picture at the 2021 Oscars. Well, that being said, now seems like as good a time as any to bear witness to the best Frances McDormand movies on streaming or available to watch elsewhere, starting with the latest film to earn her praise from the Academy.
Searchlight Pictures has picked up the Sundance short film Wiggle Room for their Searchlight Shorts program.
From director Julia Baylis and Sam Guest, the short follows Daisy (Deanna Gibson), a teenage paraplegic who is determined to save her wheelchair ramp from repossession and confronts the shady insurance agent who owes her money.
Gibson, who made her acting debut in the short, won a special jury award for her performance.
Searchlight Shorts have included shorts from directors like Martin McDonough and David Lowry, and are housed on the studio label s YouTube channel.
Stories centering on disability were among those front-and-center at this year s Sundance.
Chosen from among four finalists by a panel of other theater professionals, playwright Aleshea Harris said winning the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize feels like “ultimate pat on the back.”
Presented by the Hermitage Artist Retreat and the Greenfield Foundation, the prize, previously known as the Greenfield Prize, is a $30,000 commission for a new work that rotates each year among creators of theater, music and visual arts. Harris joins previous playwriting winners Craig Lucas, John Guare, Nilo Cruz and Martyna Majok.
Harris, the Obie-winning playwright of “Is God Is” and “What to Send Up When it Goes Down,” has been winning attention and numerous other honors off-Broadway and in theaters around the country for works that build off personal experiences to tell broader stories in an often gritty style.