PRESS

PGA documentary producer’s lab

Los Angeles based member Anh Phan has been one of the producers selected to participate in the 2022 PGA Create Lab, with her feature length documentary project ‘New Wave’. The documentary centres around the teenage refugees in 1980s California who unknowingly pioneer an underground “Vietnamese New Wave” music scene so popular that it catalyzes the establishment of an influential diaspora entertainment industry.

LITTLE BLACK BOOK ONLINE FEATURE

Directors Anna Dobos and Susannah Kala Limbu were interviewed for this lovely piece published on LLBOnline.

Career Knowledge is Power! Another Strategy to Achieve More Fair Representation

director’s notes feature

Our short film ‘I Thank My Mother for My Hair’ has been featured on Director’s Notes.

Shiny Winners

Our short film ‘I Thank My Mother for My Hair’ has screened at and won a Shiny Award! Directed by Susannah Kala Limbu & Anna Dobos.

NOWNESS ASIA FEATURE

Our short film ‘Wax & Wane’, directed by Elaine Kwok and Susannah Kala Limbu, DOP’d and edited by Anna Dobos, has been featured on Nowness Asia.

Girls in Film Feature

Our short film ‘I Thank My Mother for My Hair’ has been featured in Girls in Film!

“It was our friendship with Alexis that sparked this project; both of us as directors resonated with the complicated relationships she is navigating between her family and growing independence. All three of us felt that incorporating this personal storyline into an experimental dance film/documentary would be something special. We met and got to know her mother, Natasha, and are so privileged to have been given the trust and vulnerability you see on the screen. Prior to filming, we gave them a set of questions to ask each other, for which we filmed the audio but not the video. This exercise in itself was very intense and therapeutic for everyone involved. Although the situation between Alexis and her mother is somewhat unique, we know there are elements of it that will ring true for so many, the way it has with us.”

HUCK MAGAZINE FEATURE

Member Somayeh has been interviewed and featured in partnership with Squarespace x Huck magazine;

“It has been a struggle to find a unique voice that is authentic to me,” says filmmaker Somayeh Jafari. “For a very long time I was desperate to have this Iranian side of who I am come out in my work. But then something clicked around two or three years ago. I realised I didn’t have to force it. I realised I could simply tell the stories I wanted to tell, and by doing that my authentic voice would naturally emerge.”

FRANK NEWS FEATURE

April 3 2020

Member Chiara Towne recently interviewed our friend and founder of Lesvos based non-profit Mosaik, Chloe Haralambous for Frank News, about living on the forefront of the refugee crisis, the politics of running an aid organisation and how COVID-19 is affecting some of the most vulnerable populations. Photos by our friends over at ReFocus Media Labs.

Our members Chiara Towne, Shireen Hinckley and Anna Dobos spent a few weeks on Lesvos, Greece in the summer of 2019, shooting content to promote Mosaik, a support centre for locals and refugees.

BLACK IS KING TEASER

JULY 30 2020

Major congrats to member Shireen Hinckley for her work as Post Supervisor for the new Beyoncé visual album project 'Black is King'! Nearly a year's worth of hard work has paid off beautifully. Streaming next month on Disney+

SOMEWHERE FILMS x CALEB KUNLE SHOWCASE

Member Anna Dobos’ short film 'Painting Over Sarajevo' will be one of the films screened at Minute App's first 2020 event. Join us for a night of film, chat and networking!

MINUTE SHORTS SCREENING

Feb 24 2020

Member Anna Dobos spent a month in Sarajevo with graffiti artist Benjamin Čengić last year and the short is finally online for viewing on the excellent https://www.minuteshorts.co.uk/

'Painting Over Sarajevo' will be one of the films screened at Minute App's first 2020 event. So join us for a night of film, chat and networking!

ROY W. DEAN GRANT FINALISTS

DEC 25 2019

We’re proud to announce that our first feature length documentary project has been named a finalist for the 2019 Roy W. Dean Grant!

GUEST SPEAKERS for FUTURE OF CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL

NOV 16 2019

Last month founding members and alumni Anna Dobos and Shireen Hinckley were invited to speak to current students for Interlochen Arts Academy's annual film festival, a school that shaped both their lives and careers as teenagers. They spoke on the theme of ‘artist as citizen’, the journey of setting up Somewhere Films and shooting their feature length documentary.

BLACK SAND EXHIBITION

April 10 2018

Member Laura Alston put together an amazing exhibition, 'Black Sand' in partnership with @okayspace, @okayafrica, and @okayplayerin Brooklyn, displaying photography and collages created during her travels to the Caribbean.

CONGRATULATIONS TO CHIARA!

Jan 23 2018

Chiara has recently been featured as #14 on The Black List for her feature length screenplay ‘V.I.N.’ The project is based on the true story of Alex Haley who was writing the autobiography of Malcolm X when his editor at Playboy assigns him to interview George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party. The project is currently in pre-production and we’re very excited to see where it will go.  

LAURA ALSTON FEATURED in i-D

Jan 23 2018

Member Laura Alston has recently been featured on i-D Magazine as one of 10 emerging photographers presenting fresh black narratives, we are so proud!