Friday, December 7, 2018

Indie Review welcomes Stacey Muhammad of INTELLIGENT SEEDZ FILMMAKING BOOTCAMP

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Stacey Muhammad Intelligent Seedz
Filmmaking Bootcamp

The Intelligent Seedz Documentary Filmmaking Bootcamp is a 12- week, HANDS ON, youth media program that guides students through every stage of documentary film production from concept to finished project.
  It supports and trains young filmmakers who will revolutionize the quality and integrity of future multi-media entertainment by using their talents to promote the greater social good.
  The program equips young creatives with the specialized skills they need to produce high quality short form digital content, by teaching them the technical and creative aspects of digital filmmaking and media production. From their first day, students are immersed in the world of film production.

We're giving scholarships to 12 deserving youth filmmakers but WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Currently the program is running a campaign to
Help raise 5k on Facebook in the next TWO WEEKS for the upcoming program taking place in NEW ORLEANS this January 2019!




Friday, November 30, 2018

Indie Review welcomes writer director costumer Yvette P. Joseph !!

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Yvette P. Joseph
 Yvette is a writer, director, producer and voice actor based out of Brooklyn, New York, originally from Wilmington, Delaware. She's worked in the fashion industry for many years, but film is her passion. Yvette recently produced, starred, and served as a costume designer for Harlem Love, which features Sonia Sanchez as the poet and voice for the film. Yvette has studied Acting, Screenwriting and Directing Actors with The Independent Film School, Fiction writing with Gotham Writers and Screenwriting with Women on Writing. Yvette is a member of Women in Film LA and New York Women in Film and Television. Her latest work the script, "DON’T FORGET TO BREATHE," will mark her debut as a screenwriter and director. It is the story of a failed emergency evacuation that leaves two dedicated research scientists trapped in their laboratory with a deadly airborne virus that will rapidly deteriorate their brain’s activity. Remembering one simple thing will determine their survival.
 
 
 

Friday, November 9, 2018

Indie Review welcomes Chief Ayanda Clarke !

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Chief Ayanda Clarke

Chief Ayanda is an African American master percussionist, GRAMMY® Award-winning musician, arts educator, and lecturer. He’s been performing professionally since he was five and has performed or shared the stage with some of the world’s most revered percussionists and most loved artists, including the late Randy Weston, George Clinton, Erykah Badu, M’bemba Bangoura, and Somi. A glance at some of his performing credits in the United States include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration at Madison Square Garden, The Late Show with David Letterman, Good Morning America, America’s Got Talent, the U.S. Open, Sesame Street, and many other places. He’s also recorded and licensed music that has been featured on FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance. In 2014, Chief Ayanda was a featured percussionist on the title track of Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra’s major work, The Offense of the Drum. The project won a GRAMMY® Award that year: Best Latin Jazz Album. Chief Ayanda’s first public performance was as a small child when he played at the historic Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) with the International African-American Ballet. His father, Chief Baba Neil Clarke, the legendary jazz percussionist, was his first teacher.
Chief Ayanda has toured throughout North America, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Canada, and Europe several times over. His talents have led him to perform or record with Chief Bey, Orlando Rios, Randy Weston, Batoto Yetu, The Amistad Project, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Forces of Nature, Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater, pop artist Jewel, and many others. Clarke’s research of the percussive arts (including a variety of drums and bells, the balafon, and the shekere) is exhaustive. His range spans several musical traditions, including those of Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Angola, Cuba, Brazil, the Caribbean, and of African Americans. After more than thirty years of deep study, immersion, and training, he’s emerged as one of the most highly regarded percussionists of his generation, unique in his ability to cross every musical genre.
As a business owner who is passionate about community wellness and development, Chief Ayanda founded THE FADARA GROUP LLC. Its main offerings are True To Our Native Land, a cultural appreciation program and Integrated Wealth Alliance (IWA), a network of esteemed healers and practitioners from various disciplines. Clarke is also co-founder and musical director of Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater, the Bessie-nominated company of the Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation. He is also a partner and musical director of Palms Down, Inc., a percussion ensemble. Through Palms Down, he’s performed and co-produced music that was licensed for Elysium, the feature film starring Matt Damon and Jodi Foster.
Clarke teaches public and private students (children and adults) throughout the New York Tri-State Area. He also lectures regularly on African culture and the percussive arts at national and local institutions, including at the American Museum of Natural History, Hofstra University, Yale University, Princeton University, and many other spaces. In 2016, sponsored by his mentor Chief Agbongbon Fakayode Faniyi, Ayanda Clarke was installed as a chief in Osogbo (Nigeria), presented as Chief Ayanda Ifadara Clarke, Ajibilu Awo of Osogbo. The ancient City of Osogbo is honored globally for its preservation of traditional African arts and culture. In 2005, it became a World Heritage Site landmarked by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Friday, October 26, 2018

Indie Review welcomes Gabrielle Stewart !!

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Gabrielle Stewart 


Gabrielle Stewart is a 24 year old singer/songwriter from Michigan. She was raised in a small town Clinton Township just off of the Great Lakes about 40 minutes outside of Detroit.  Gabrielle started singing at the age of 3 and started writing her own songs at age 11. Since then, she's been putting all that she has behind her biggest dream to hopefully get discovered, move out of Michigan, and start a new chapter in life. The journey continues with her latest single "7 Seasons." Gabrielle wants to be a star for all seasons. 

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Indie Review welcomes Thembisa of Mshaka Media on #LipGame Live !!

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Thembisa of Mshaka Media 
on #LipGame Live 


Women’s business author, 25 year entertainment industry veteran and beauty enthusiast Thembisa S. Mshaka will join us to speak on #LipGame LIVE. An intimate ticketed event where beauty meets business. An evening of net-worthing.The exclusive monthly afterwork experience will provide dynamic career women with a place to connect, get answers to burning beauty questions from professional makeup artists and estheticians, and unwind with unlimited champagne. LipGame LIVE is produced by Royal Life Entities, a music, multimedia an lifestyle event company and Mshaka’s creative content company Mshaka Media, LLC. The host for the kickoff event is Akim Vann, owner of The Bakery on Bergen. This dynamic businesswoman embodies the best of beauty and business.

Indie Review Health Forum - Saturday, October 20 - 12 PM (ET)

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Indie Health Chat Forum 
with Hocus 45th
 
It's never too late or too early to speak on
health, nutrition and wellness. Indie Review will do
just that with our Guest Hocus 45th who
go to schools and group homes to talk to kids and troubled youth 
about health. Join us in the chatroom to participate and
ask any questions you may have. 
We welcome all !!!
 

Friday, October 5, 2018

Indie Review welcomes 16th Annual Pocono Mountains Film Festival !

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16th Annual Pocono Mountains Film Festival

 For 16 years, The Pocono Mountains Film Festival has been exhibiting the work of up-and-coming screenwriters and filmmakers Film Producers, Directors, Actor’s & Actresses. The PMFF is based in Tannersville, Pennsylvania. The film festival is dedicated to creating a beneficial platform for artists in the film industry and we are driven and passionate about assisting them with sharing their creative works to a large audience. The objectives and goals are to increase self-esteem and positive role models through the vehicle of films. Provide life choices with a vision on how to secure a viable socioeconomic status via the “American Dream.” The goals are to remove the uninvited stereotypes that enter our homes and lives through various media outlets. They offer film workshops spearheaded by named professionals in the industry. Each year, the Pocono Mountains Film Festival honors the iconic and creative genius in the entertainment industry, affording aspiring filmmakers the opportunity to network with the best of the best in the industry.



Thursday, September 13, 2018

Indie Review welcomes Hocus 45th !

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Hocus 45th
Hasan Harris a.k.a Hocus 45th was born in Harlem and raised in the Bronx. Some would argue that hip-hop was born in the Bronx; which would explain Hocus’ love affair that started at the early age of 8. Introduced to the art by his father, Hocus 45th use to rap to his father who told him that he was going to make it big one day. Tragically, his father who was his hero, mentor and best friend died from a heart attack when Hocus was only 12-years-old; leaving behind 8 sons and 2 daughters. Devastated by his father’s death, but still dedicated to the art form, Hocus 45th hit the streets looking for that connection he once shared with his dad.
Unfortunately, as with many fatherless young boys, the streets got to him first. As a young teen, Hocus 45th started to sell drugs (crack cocaine) in the ‘hood. And when he was 17, he joined a gang known as SEX MONEY MURDER, a subset of the Bloods, which would later haunt him in ways he could not have imagined. While doing his thing in the streets, Hocus 45th caught a couple of court cases ranging from attempted murder, direct sales and gun possession. Luckily for him, he either found his way around those charges or ended up doing little jail time. Through all the hustling and gang banging, Hocus 45th never gave up his passion for music; the music he once shared with his best friend, his father. When he wasn’t dealing drugs, he would join cyphers in the streets and perfect his skills. By know he was getting noticed for his flow. In 2008, along with his friend P.O., they started a movement called Bang Bang Boogie which consisted of rappers Cuban Link, Lord Tariq, Mysonne, his brother S-1 and himself. Heavily cosigned by hip-hop giant 50 cent and promoted by G-Unit, the movement was on its’ way to success!
Finally, Hocus 45th decided to leave the streets alone and focus on his passion for music; he wanted to make his dad proud. But little did he know his past would catch up with him. Hocus and his rap crew, Bang Bang Boogie, were featured in the August 26th, 2017 issue of the billboard magazine. Things was seeming on the up and up but a little over a week later the Bronx district attorney office would come back with a secret indictment arresting Hocus, 2 of his brothers and 22 others on conspiracy and related charges. Headlines read "Kings dethroned, castle hill gang busted on drugs and murder".
After being incarcerated for 4 long years on Rikers island, facing life in prison, Hocus 45th would finally have his day in court. The trial lasted 2 long months but, in the end, Hocus 45th was acquitted on December 12, 2012 (12/12/12), found NOT GUILTY on all charges (8) by a jury of his peers. After the acquittal, he decided to leave the streets behind and once again pursue his passion for music. While in jail he found a new love. He began to read books on health and nutrition and decided to become a vegan. Hocus now go to schools and group homes to talk to kids and troubled youth about health, gang violence and his life, in hopes that his testimony will be an example to them. His goal is to encourage them to not make the choices he once made in his past and encourage them to always strive for greatness and pursue their passion.
Hocus 45th  over has recorded over 200 songs and has collaborated with the likes of DMX, Styles P, Fred the Godson, Vado, AR AB and many more. From being in a jail cell facing life in prison to opening up for DMX at his concerts, it's safe to say that this man’s father was right, Hocus 45th is going to be big.
Hocus 45th’s debut, full-length album will drop early 2019. Look out for two new mix CD’s to be released later this year.

Friday, August 17, 2018

Indie Review welcomes Ali Caldwell !!

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Ali Caldwell

A dynamic and powerful virtuoso with a soothing touch, Ali Caldwell's voice is as thrilling as it is comforting. This is modern R&B music that inspires a sense of nostalgia. With whispers that climb into full-throttle belting and back, Ali delivers emotional swings that pick you up, spin you around, plant you firmly back on your feet --- and then repeat, with ease. Jazzy notes and meandering harmonies punctuate her work, and her church-gospel background fuels pop sensibilities that provide intensity, conviction, control, and polish. Fresh off of Headlining her 6th International European Tour encompassing 6 countries as an independent artist, Singer-songwriter Ali Caldwell may be well on her way to accomplishing her dreams. Ali recently dominated on Season 11 of NBC’s The Voice. She garnered an impressive 4 chair turn in her audition, choosing Miley Cyrus as her coach and as the last standing member of Miley Cyrus’ Team she tackled every genre of music making every song selection her own while bringing the house down consistently every show. Ali was also featured on BET Centric TV’s Black Music Month series as 1 of 4 Independent Black Women in Music to watch. She is currently pacing to become the breakout artist on Fox Network’s New Show “The Four”, Season 2 (with Celebrity Panel consisting of P.Diddy, DJ Khaled & Mehgan Trainor. Ali attributes her successes to being consistent and persistent and by not letting anyone or anything define her. She believes it when she says “Always dare to be different”. She recently
released her new Single entitled “To Be Loved” off of her highly anticipated album Entitled “88” which is due late 2018!



Friday, August 3, 2018

Indie Review welcomes Napoleon Da Legend !!

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Napoleon Da Legend 

 
Once in a millennium rapper, lyricist Napoleon Da Legend is a Paris-born, East African (Comoros) and Washington DC-raised, Brooklyn-based artist uses his voice as weapon of hope, social-critique, conquest and joy. N.D.L.’s innovative short-film “Wise Men” featuring the late great Sean Price quickly became a cult hit among Hip-Hop heads with its overt challenge of the music industry establishment. 

Following the release on his "Steal This Mixtape" series in 2016, Napoleon Da Legend has been touring in the US and in Europe. He has been featured on Statik Selektah's Show Off Radio show, Tony Touch's Toca Tuesdays, DJ Eclipse's Rap Is Outta Control and Sway in the Morning. N.D.L. later performed two shows on Center Stage at his first ever Essence Festival 2017 and was featured on the Recording Academy website and Revolt TV among others. In June 2017 he was invited to perform his buzz-hit "Black Privilege" on the Fox 5 News' Good Day DC program. He would then rock the stage at the prestigious Rocksteady 40th Anniversary on SummerStage in Central Park alongside of Mobb Deep and DJ Premier, as well as 2017 Bastille Day in Manhattan.

In 2018, he released “Tupacrypha”, a full-length Tupac Shakur (RIP) homage, "Brooklyn To Mulhouse" EP, on French Label Media-pop, "Path of a Warrior" album on UK label, Chopped Herring Records, "Steal This Mixtape 3", followed by Afrobeat, Dancehall and Hip-Hop album “Afrostreet” and recently “Steal This Mixtape 4”. His mix of social commentary with introspective sensibilities paint a unique story seldom told in rap music making him poised to be placed among the most highly regarded names in Hip-Hop.