By: Austin Winter- Chase Life is hard at any age, but especially when you are a teenager and you’re still trying to figure out who you are and your place in your work in this world. For sixteen year old Anne life is a bit more complicated. She is a beautiful young girl who feels out of place. Not really knowing how to fit in, … Continue reading A Review of “SUMMER” A Beautifully Told Dutch Gay Teen Love Story
By: Austin Winter-Chase “I came back because I am who I am because of the community I grew up in.” –will.i.am, The Black Eyed Peas Besty Kalin’s award winning documentary and Audience Award Winner for Best Documentary “East LA Interchange” to screen at the New Urbanism Film Festival and the Highland Park Independent Film Festival. In a country where freedom and equality goes hand … Continue reading LA Documentary “East LA Interchange” in 2 LA Film Festivals
By: Monteque Pope-Le Beau Many have suggested that I write a biography or share my story, but that doesn’t align with who I am. I value my privacy greatly. However, I prefer solitude over privacy. Therefore, I rarely discuss myself. Instead, I often talk about my family and my upbringing, especially focusing on my mother. Recently, I had ample time to reflect on my life … Continue reading My Story
By: Austin Winter-Chase To just say that poet André Richardson Hogan II poems are raw and edgy is to say that Michelangelo was good at drawing. André Richardson Hogan II was born in 1978 in Chicago. He is a playwright, screenwriter, poet, essayist, visual artist, and theater critic. His plays have received stage readings and productions in numerous theaters which include the American Theater … Continue reading A poetry review of ” Strangers, A Collection Of Poems By André Richardson Hogan II”
By: Monteque Pope-Le Beau To say DirectorAnte Novakovic is a artist would be stating it mildly. He is so much more, he is truly a Renaissance man of the modern age. A man of many talents and a human being of deep spiritual wisdom. The Art Of Monteque had a chance to have a conversation with DirectorAnte Novakovic about his film “Leaves Of The … Continue reading A Conversation With Renaissance Man Director Ante Novakovic Of The Film: “Leaves Of The Tree”
By: Adrienne Vaught Edited By : Colleen Page As I did my research preparing to interview this modern day Renaissance man, the more fascinated I became by his many talents and pursuits. I can tell you I was shaking in my fuzzy slippers (phone interview). What a gifted soul. He paints his characters with the same warmth, vitality and unexpected twists that he paints … Continue reading A conversation With Artist Federico Castelluccio: A Renaissance man With A Gifted Soul
By: Monteque Pope-Le Beau Edited By : Colleen Page To have a conversation with writer and producer D. J. Healey is to have a conversation with a profoundly humble man. His insights on life and the human condition are made more surreal when you realize that this is not just a storyteller telling an amazing story; this is a gentleman which has lived … Continue reading D. J. Healey A Storyteller With A Humble Heart
Ai P. Nilson was born in Huntington Park, raised in Los Angeles and San Bernardino, California, USA. With a strong foundation in Performing Arts (music, drama, and choreography) and Hair Design, she has proven to be a multi-talented and skilled being. Today, she inhabits the world of Visual Arts! Ai possesses a wide range of artistic skills consisting of painting, drawing, and craftsmanship along with … Continue reading Ai P. Nilson: The Poetic Creativity Of An Artist’s Mind
By: Adrienne Vaught Pure hate! One great eye staring me down through a graying splintered corral sent the message loud and clear to my mind. A great black beast, stomping and tearing the dirt from the ground creating a fine mist of dust that never lands, but chokes the back of my throat. Boards of wood seem inadequate protection, a small separation between your … Continue reading Raven
Connecting Independent Artists and Audiences in Two Key Global Locations Sundance Film Festival: Hong Kong to take place September 17-27, 2015 at The Metroplex Sundance Film Festival: London to take place in 2016 at new Picturehouse Central Sundance Institute today announced it will continue its film festivals in Hong Kong this year and London next year, with selections for each largely drawn from the Institute’s … Continue reading SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES 2015-2016 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS IN HONG KONG AND LONDON
By: Adrienne Vaught Edited By : Colleen Page “Boy Meets Girl” is a coming-of-age LGBT film in which Director Eric Schaeffer challenges the audience to take their preconceived ideas of the small rural American town, throw it out the window into the gutter where most preconceived notions belong. Combine that with our innate drive to belong to the society and bodies in which we are born and … Continue reading “Boy Meets Girl” A Message Of Unconditional Love: A interview With Director Eric Schaeffer
By: Vernon Nickerson On Sunday, January 25, 2015 a typical sunny and warm Sunday California winter afternoon, I had the pleasure of being in a standing-room-only crowd at the Crawford Family Forum, broadcast headquarters of Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) station KPPC, 89.3 FM, in Pasadena, California. A diverse group of parents, children, musicians, music and arts educators, student musicians, graduates of public and private school systems … Continue reading Spotlight ON: Music and The Brain: A Call to Action, a Southern California Radio sponsored community event
By: Vernon Nickerson The France depicted in Writer/Director Céline Sciamma’s film “Girlhood” (in French with English subtitles) is apparently failing its children of color. Which is being featured at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. When the main character, Marieme, alias Vic, played by Karidja Touré cannot qualify to continue her education in high school because she has been forced to raise her 2 younger … Continue reading 2014 AFI Film Festival Review: Questions that demand answers….A.K.A. the movie “Girlhood”
By: Vernon Nickerson Edited By: Calleen Page The Art of Monteque sat down this week with Diego Ongaro, Writer and Director of the 2015 Sundance NEXT feature film Bob and the Trees. We talked about the making of the film and becoming an artist. Bob and the Trees seems to have a lot of complex undertones about the struggles of life, did you … Continue reading Bob and the Trees- A Winter Tale for Guys: In Conversation with Writer/Director Diego Ongaro
By: Vernon Nickerson CHAPTER 1 Every child in every age must have the love of a mother Every mother in every age is created to Glorify God by loving every child Only a few will ever fully embrace and surrender to God’s Creative Plan for Mothers They will be named UNIVERSAL Mother- LOVING UNCONDITIONALLY Their calling and election sure from the beginning, they will be … Continue reading Ode to A California Mother: Universal Mother, Loving Unconditionally
By: Monteque Pope- Le beau “Loitering with Intent” masterfully shows that sometimes the decisions that we make are not always the best, but sometimes they are what makes us who we are. It is a wonderful chaotic comical statement in which sometimes no matter what we do to right the past; we just can’t go home again. Rafael and Dominic are best friends and actors … Continue reading “Loitering with Intent” A journey of Self Discovery
By: Vernon Nickerson Edited By: Colleen Page The Art of Monteque sat down this week with Richard Montoya, Writer and Director of the soon-to-be-released film Water and Power. We talked about the making of the film and his journey as an artist. Water and Power is such a strong and meaningful work. What caused you to create it? RICHARD MONTOYA: I was inspired by the … Continue reading The Way of the Artist: In conversation with Richard Montoya, Writer/Director of the film, “Water and Power”
From all of us at The Art Of Monteque, we wish you all the best for the Holiday Season and a Happy New Year. Thank you for all you support and faith. The Art Of Monteque Team Continue reading Season Greetings Form The Art Of Monteque
By: Monteque Pope Le Beau Edited By: Colleen Page Images By: Vaikra Art Lab The Art Monteque is always is in search of new artists. Sometimes it takes us looking around the globe to find those rare gems, but as always we find that it is worth it, so that we can introduce new artist to our audience. From Israel The Art Of Monteque would like … Continue reading The Progressive Artist of Vaikra Art Lab
New Work by Lucy Alibar, Elise Thoron, Frank London and 600 HIGHWAYMEN Selected for Lab at MASS MoCA, Nov. 30 – Dec. 14 New York, NY — Sundance Institute today announced the projects and artists that will participate in its two Fall artist development programs: the inaugural Playwrights Studio at Flying Point in Water Mill, NY (October 19-26), as well as t The two-week … Continue reading Sundance Institute Announces Projects and Artists for Two Fall Theatre Labs
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