The Moveable Fest: Interview: Anne Flatte and Marlon Johnson on Capturing the Rhythm of Life in “River City Drumbeat”
San Jose Mercury News: “Amazing… a must.” ★★★★
Film Threat: “River City Drumbeat is an edifying story of rhythm, passion, and rites of passage.”
San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper: “… a beautiful story of a legacy using art to build character. ‘River City’ shows how community is what matters in a child’s life.”
The New York Times: “Beautiful.” “The film listens for this community’s heartbeat, finding its steady pulse just as expected: healthy and strong.”
QX: Gabi, 8 years old, challenges gender norms - sneak peek at this spring's documentary
Paste: "A magnanimous debut"
The Philadelphia Inquirer: “A fascinating look at the birth of the court trial as televised spectacle, and how the packaging and repackaging of “real-life” stories inevitably turns them into fiction.”
The Hollywood Reporter: “This smart HBO documentary convicts the media coverage and trial itself as guilty to Farce in the First Degree”.
Vice: HAUNTING “A fascinating and haunting meditation on America’s flawed justice system.”
Forbes: BRILLIANT “There has never been a more insightful examination than Jeremiah Zagar’s brilliant documentary.”
Entertainment Weekly: "A masterful job"
Columbia Daily Tribune: The most beautiful film I've seen over a span of the past three or four True/Falses
Deadline: The Santa Barbara Film Festival unveiled winners for its 37th edition… Juried winners at this year’s festival include Jon-Sesrie Goff’s After Sherman as Best Documentary
Artforum: Jon-Sesrie Goff infuses a tribute to Gullah culture with ruminations on how his approach to race and the world diverges from that of his father
The Playlist: "Goff effectively bottles the energy generated when history collides with memory and lets it resound in his feature to stirring effect."
The Hollywood Reporter: "“Captivating. Ambitiously framed… If we are smart, we listen, we follow these murmurs and we see where they lead. Jon-Sesrie Goff does just that in After Sherman."
The Moveable Fest: “A fittingly fragmented family portrait that extends well beyond the Goffs to include all Africans who were cut off from their roots by being brought to America on slave ships”
Vox Magazine: ‘After Sherman’ explores family lineage, inheritance and resilience in the face of adversity
The Guardian: A complete guide to this week’s entertainment... Director Bernadette Wegenstein films one of classical music’s foremost female conductors, Marin Alsop, in this engaging documentary
