Paulo Bautista - Contra Zoom Pod

New York Film Festival Diaries – Part 3

January 20, 2025

Hello Contra Zoom readers. After many overdue months dealing with some issues on my end both at work and in my personal life, I…

New York Film Festival Diaries – Part 2

January 16, 2025

Hello Contra Zoom readers. After many overdue months dealing with some issues on my end both at work and in my personal life, I…

New York Film Festival Diaries – Part 1

January 13, 2025

Hello Contra Zoom readers. After many overdue months dealing with some issues on my end both at work and in my personal life, I…

Reviews: Tribeca Round Up

July 3, 2024

With this year’s Tribeca film festival now wrapped here are the first pair of feature reviews, New Wave and Bitterroot along with three short films.

Blog: Tribeca Festival 2024 Preview

May 31, 2024

Here’s to give a quick overview of the films that interest me most from this year’s Tribeca festival that you can look forward to reading about.

Reviews: SIFF Documentary Round Up – Part 2

May 30, 2024

In this batch of capsule reviews from the Seattle International FIlm Festival, we’ve chosen to focus on two documentaries.

Reviews: SIFF Documentary Round Up – Part 1

May 27, 2024

In this batch of capsule reviews from the Seattle International FIlm Festival, we’ve chosen to focus on two documentaries.

Reviews: Ru

May 17, 2024

Ru follows the tale of Tinh, who with her family is one of many “boat people” from Southern Vietnam that relocate to Quebec.

Reviews: The Click Trap from Hot Docs 2024

May 13, 2024

Over 80 minutes of The Click Trap, in interviews with politicians and watchdog groups, we are shown the worst that digital advertising enables/funds.

Reviews: The Peasants

March 25, 2024

Based on the Nobel Prize for Literature 1904 novel The Peasants, the 2023 adaptation by duo DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman is in short, a masterpiece of a film.