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Writer and co-director Travon Free and producer Lawrence Bender discuss the time-loop story of a Black man who constantly relives the same moment and can t escape being shot by a white officer.
Most time-loop films traffic in existential comedy. Think
Palm Springs and
Groundhog Day. But while the new short film,
Two Distant Strangers, also features a time loop, the overall, suffocating feeling during its 30 minutes is one of existential terror.
The story of a Black man trying to get home to his dog after spending the night with a woman he has met, the film is a powerful dramatic take on police violence in America, situating its main character in an endlessly repeating day where he is shot, time after time, by a white cop, no matter what he does.
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The 30 highest-paid athletes of 2020 Posted January 01, 2021 | By Matt Whitener
While far from missing any meals, the top paydays in sports dropped in 2020, as the world of professional sports was not able to avoid the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Several sports saw significant losses in games played, and the earning ability of those athletes followed suit. Those athletes with established endorsement contracts faired much better than those dependent more on games played. Most heavily impacted was boxing and baseball, which failed to produce a single athlete on this year’s list. Meanwhile, basketball showed up strong, as did soccer, tennis, and the elite new earners in football.