Tag: Jenifer Westphal

Aisha | Review

No Safe Havens: Letitia Wright’s Breathtaking Refugee Turn Frank Berry’s Aisha is the superbly moving record of a Nigerian refugee’s quiet fight for dignity in...

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Frank Berry’s Aisha

Moving from a tragi-docudrama I Used to Live Here (2014) to what appears to be a very raw prison system film in Michael Inside...

Selah and The Spades | Review

School for Scoundrels: Poe Preens a Teen Queen with Curious, Benign Debut Director Tayarisha Poe fashions her debut Selah and The Spades, a YA drama...

Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades | 2019 Sundance Film Festival

Stylish, slick and super sophisticated for a micro-indie of this scale, what works marvels is Tayarisha Poe's the film's narrative blue print and universe. Selah and...

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