Filmmaker Garrett Bradley refuses to be just one thing. The daughter of a white mother and a black father, a New Yorker transplanted to New Orleans, self-taught and UCLA-trained, Bradley is, she says, "neither this nor that," though the more accurate description might be "both, and." "If you're somebody who grows up as an African American, just speaking from my own experience, I think you're born into a heightened sense of imagination," she explains, sipping Maker's Mark in a smoky French Quarter dive called Cosimo's, as jukebox Motown strains to be heard over the hum of conversation. "Because you have to become a shape shifter in order to succeed." This skill for metamorphosis is on display in Bradley's superb debut feature, "Below Dreams," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014 and is now available on VOD. The film's poetic realism, as I wrote in my review out of last year's New Orleans Film Festival,...
- 4/22/2015
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