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Ever because the “pink tablet / blue tablet” idea was first launched with The Matrix, the easy job of decision-making has by no means been fairly the identical. Whereas it’s a typical perception that all the pieces meant to occur will occur primarily based on a Divine Plan, the street not taken will at all times go away room for doubt within the thoughts of anybody making that nail-biting alternative.
It’s a theme that performs a key function in Meal Ticket by Wes Andre Goodrich, a brief movie debuted on the “Rising Voices” competitors throughout this yr’s Tribeca Pageant that had many in attendance declaring it a fan-favorite of the day. We couldn’t agree extra, and it made for an ideal alternative to meet up with the 27-year-old director throughout some free time — in-between crafting up contemporary scripts, after all! — for a dialog that dives deeper into his inspiring background and makes it clear why Filmmaker Journal deemed him one in all 2023’s New Faces of Movie.
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Along with Meal Ticket providing some familiarity for viewers with Wu-Tang: An American Saga actor Siddiq Saunderson within the lead function, the movie additionally manages to construct up sufficient suspense in its 12-minute runtime to depart you yearning for a miniseries with a purpose to tie up its cliffhanger ending. You are feeling for the choice his character Saint is left with making simply as a lot as your coronary heart aches for the one he has to ship the information to. The emotional depth of the characters is an applaudable feat for Wes that’s fairly frequent in his work, together with different competition gems like SPEAK UP BROTHA! and PALM SUNDAY.
Wes takes us behind the thought course of in every of these brief movies and why sure themes will at all times present up in some facet if his identify is hooked up to the challenge. With the tradition at all times on the again of his thoughts throughout storytelling, put together for greatness from this burgeoning Brooklynite.
Watch beneath as we chop it up with director Wes Andre Goodrich, and test again quickly as we spherical out our convos with just a few “Rising Voices” of Black filmmaking: