Talking Pictures with Paul Booth

Host Paul Booth reviews I AM EVIDENCE which debuts on HBO Monday April 16th.

Directed by Trish Adlesic (Oscar nominee for Best Documentary GASLAND),

 and Geeta Gandbhir (Primetime Emmy award winner for By the People: The Election of Barack Obama and When the Levees Broke: A requiem in Four Acts)

 

Produced by Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: SVU)

 

I AM EVIDENCE exposes the shocking number of untested rape kits in the United States today. Despite the power of DNA to solve and prevent crimes, hundreds of thousands of kits containing potentially crucial DNA evidence languish untested in police evidencestorage rooms across the country. Behind each of these kits lies an individual’s unresolved sexual assault case. Produced by Mariska Hargitay, I AM EVIDENCE follows stories of survivors who have waited years for their kits to be tested, as well as the law enforcement officials who are leading the charge to work through the backlog and pursue long-awaited justice in these cases. The film reveals the high cost of the lingering lassitude surrounding rape investigations in this country, and the positive effects of treating survivors with the respect they deserve and an opportunity for justice.

 

*** Official Selection of the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival ***

 

RT: 85 Minutes

Host Paul Booth interviews Actress Ana Evelyn about her role in the hilarious comedy THE BEST PEOPLE which just premiered at CineQuest and will be screening at the Phoenix Film Festival. The Festival is April 5-15

go to www.phoenixfilmfestival.com

Host Paul Booth interviews Actress Ana Evelyn about her role in the hilarious comedy THE BEST PEOPLE which just premiered at CineQuest and will be screening at the Phoenix Film Festival. The Festival is April 5-15

go to www.phoenixfilmfestival.com

Host Paul Booth reviews the 2018 Cinequest Official Selection THE BEST PEOPLE.

Synopsis:

Just as she is recovering from a breakdown, Anna’s  world is rocked when her younger sister gets engaged. She teams up with the alcoholic best man to break up the happy couple and end their engagement.  Anna is convinced they are trying to save her sister, his best friend, and themselves from a lifetime of misery.

Host Paul Booth reviews the 2018 Cinequest Official Selection THE BEST PEOPLE.

Synopsis:

Just as she is recovering from a breakdown, Anna’s  world is rocked when her younger sister gets engaged. She teams up with the alcoholic best man to break up the happy couple and end their engagement.  Anna is convinced they are trying to save her sister, his best friend, and themselves from a lifetime of misery.

Host Paul Booth and Co-Executive Producer Jim McNulty discuss  Call me by Your Name and a number of other topics.

Host Paul Booth and Co-Executive Producer Jim McNulty discuss  Call me by Your Name and a number of other topics.

Host Paul Booth interviews Victoria Negri (Producer) and Cath Gulick (writer/director) about their film The Fever and the Fret.

Host Paul Booth interviews Victoria Negri (Producer) and Cath Gulick (writer/director) about their film The Fever and the Fret.

Host Paul Booth reviews this 2018 Official Selection to SXSW. 

Synopsis:  American performance artist Narcissister takes a smart, sassy, spectacle-rich approach to exploring the kinds of sexual fetishism that notoriously fix racial and gender stereotypes. She combines unabashed eroticism, humor, and poignancy to stretch viewers’ sensibilities and achieve surprising psychic effects. Narcissister Organ Player is originally a Bessie Awards–nominated performance that takes place in a metaphorical restaurant where Narcissister, unsated by a few spinach leaves, tries to eat the restaurant furniture and ends up “consuming herself” by entering and traveling through her own body, represented by an enormous onstage puppet. As the performance plays out on stage, in real life, her mother’s long-term illness brings on a decline that ends in death. The artist’s loss provokes an exploration of how her own complex, interracial family history has compelled her to create the masked, erotic performance character Narcissister. Enriched by Martha Colburn’s original animation, Narcissister Organ Player is a hybrid personal documentary/performance film that is a vibrant portrait of a family, a radical artistic practice, and an exploration of how ancestral data is stored in our bodies, impacting the lives we lead.