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Cinephellas Podcast – Episode 93 (Interview with Roosevelt Merisier)

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Award-winning Fort Lauderdale, Florida filmmaker, Roosevelt Merisier, is all about community and culture. On this episode of the Cinephellas Podcast, Nile Fortner discusses with Roosevelt Merisier how he developed a documentary during the 2020 quarantine, working in South Florida as a filmmaker, FNOProductions, comedy clubs, and more on this episode of the Cinephellas Podcast.

If you’d like to go beyond our audio adventures, then you may follow Roosevelt Merisier on Instagram @failuresnooption_

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Review – Today’s Special (2009)

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Take a Bite Out of ‘Today’s Special’!

by Nile Fortner

The 2009 independent comedy film Today’s Special comes from fairy tale and folklore director David Kaplan and the film is an adaptation from the Off-Broadway play. Taking place mostly in an Indian restaurant, a young Manhattan chef played by Aasif Mandvi (The Internship and Spider-Man 2) rediscovers his passion for life by making Indian food. The film mostly has a Bollywood cast and has been played at the Mumbai Indian Film Festival and the Palm Springs International Film Festival where it won the “Best of the Fest” award.

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Review – The African Doctor (2016)

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The French Film ‘The African Doctor’ is a Satire of Cultural Acceptance

by Nile Fortner

The French film originally titled, Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont (Welcome to Marly Gomont) a.k.a. The African Doctor, tells the true story of Seyolo Zantoko, a French doctor, who struggles to serve as a doctor in a small French village and obtain French nationality in order to expose his family to a wider world. The comedy-drama film is based on the real-life father of French musician Kamini Zantoko, who is also one of the co-writers, and the movie is directed by Julien Rambaldi.

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Review – Patti Cake$ (2017)

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Precious’ Meets ‘Hustle & Flow’ in ‘Patti Cake$

by Nile Fortner

Patti Cake$ is a heartwarming story about a young woman from New Jersey named Patricia Dombrowski, who has dreams of achieving stardom and success as a rapper. Patricia, aka Killer P, aka Patti Cake$, wants to follow in the same footsteps of her favorite rapper. In order to achieve this goal, Patti receives help from her friend, a mysterious Goth musician, and her supportive grandmother.

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