Motamedi is a first-generation American raised in a liberal Kurdish/Azeri household and speaks three languages. There is something unique about Tara Motamedi’s work that I can’t put my finger on but I believe she’s going to rise above the competition as her career grows.
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announcing their withdrawal leaving all foreign personnel and manyĪfghans trying to flee the country before the full takeover of the Taliban.
The 2022 Rising Voices presented 10 short films chosen amongst thousands of entries, but the ones that caught my eye were Cara Lawson’s “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings,” Shanrica Evan’s “Amina” and Justin Floyd’s “Malleable.” But the one that shook me to the core was Tara Motamedi’s “Before Dawn, Kabul Time” which tosses us into Afghanistan after the wake of the U.S. In their second year, they are able to share that over 1,000 jobs have been created through the program since its inception. What impressed me was Indeed’s Rising Voices and their partnership with Lena Waithe and Hillman Grad Productions where they created a program that was specifically designed to cover, invest in, and share stories created by BIPOC filmmakers. Al Sharpton, Spike Lee, and John Legend which Cori Murray moderated. After the premiere screening, there was a conversation with the Rev. Scenes with Andrew Cuomo and other influential figures highlight what makes Sharpton so special as a storyteller and agitator. The festival ended with Josh Alexander’s doc “Loudmouth” which follows the winding road that is Al Sharpton’s life story as an iconic activist and spiritual leader. The resistance they face exposes disturbing truths about the U.K.’s colonial past and present. Now Annina fights alongside renowned African American preservationist Peggy King Jorde and a group of disenfranchised islanders-many of them descendants of the formerly enslaved-for the proper memorialisation of these forgotten victims. The sad truth of this find is the haunting fact there are more (unknown) injustices. The reality of this disturbing find is essentially one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade still on earth. When she learns of the island’s most terrible atrocity-an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans in Rupert’s Valley-it opens the floodgates of research. “A Story of Bones” explores the life of Annina Van Neel, the chief environmental officer for Saint Helena, and the troubled £285m ($360m) airport project. That being said, the gems stood out in a sea of mediocrity and there was a handful of interesting films in the documentary section including Jennifer Lopez’s “Halftime” which opened the festival (currently streaming on Netflix), and the doc short “Nicholas Brothers: Story Weather” and the very fine “A Story of Bones.” I’m sad to report that the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival (in my humble opinion) didn’t live up to my expectations and I hope that it’s a direct result of the impact of COVID-19 because that opens up hope for 2023.
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