Bionic Buzz® got to interview the very talented Rakefet Abergel over zoom. She is an actress, casting director, producer, writer and director. We talked about where her passion for filmmaking came from, being in Superbad movie, being in the TV series My Name Is Earl, her film Jax [...]
Lillian LaSalle's award-winning, powerful documentary MY NAME IS PEDRO explores what public education meant to South Bronx Latino maverick educator, Pedro Santana, and what he, in turn, meant to public education. The film is also especially timely in this moment of national reckoning since the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests. Infectious in his [...]
Viva Pictures has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the bilingual romantic comedy In Other Words. The film will be released On Digital and On Demand on September 8th and will air on HBO Latino in February 2021. In Other Words was directed by Patrick Perez Vidauri (Lola's Love Shack) from a script written by Cristina Nava (Lola's Love Shack). The movie stars Bryan McClure (Mindhunter), Edy Ganem (Devious Maids), Natasha Esca (Narcos: México) and Chris Kattan (Saturday [...]
Semi-retired professional wrestler Ian Hodgkinson reveals the harsh realities behind the glamour of being in the world of wrestling as the infamous ‘Vampiro’. A Lucha Libre legend, Hodgkinson tells the astonishing story about his meteoric rise to fame in the 90's and how it almost killed him. Yet none of that was [...]
Award-winning production and financing company Black Bear Pictures, who is behind lauded feature films such as The Imitation Game, Mudbound and this summer’s hit film, The Rental, announced today that Leigh Kittay has joined as Head of Film and will be responsible for continuing to grow the company’s impressive slate of feature films. Leigh previously served as [...]
HBO Max has released a brand new featurette for An American Pickle. The film, starring Seth Rogen in dual leading roles, is an adaptation of the 2013 New Yorker series Sell Out by Simon Rich who also adapts, and is directed by Brandon Trost, the cinematographer from Rogen’s previous films (This is the End, Neighbors, [...]
Bionic Buzz® got to interview the filmmakers of the new documentary Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies. Interview with director Danny Wolf and producer Jim McBride aka Mr. Skin. A definitive documentary on the history of nudity in the movies, beginning with the silent movie era [...]
MR. SOUL! is right on time given the subject - Ellis Haizlip - and his accomplishments as America’s first Black nighttime talk show host during the Civil Rights Movement/Black Power Movement from 1968 - 1973. It is a rich story that will resonate with audiences across the nation and across generations. With [...]
Decades after it was shot, and just in time for the 2020 presidential election, indie film "Chief Zabu" is set to be released August 7 on streaming channels Vudu, Amazon, Google and Apple iTunes. The socio-political comedy was inspired in part by a real estate mogul named Donald Trump, who in mid-Eighties [...]
Bionic Buzz® got to interview director, producer & cinematographer Taylor Morden over zoom. We talked about his latest documentary The Last Blockbuster. It is a feature length documentary film about the rise and fall of Blockbuster video and how one small town store managed to outlast a corporate [...]
