From Jordan Peele to Spike Lee, modern black cinema is branching out into all manner of genres and audiences. “See You Yesterday,” a Tribeca Film Festival first feature from Stefon Bristol (and produced by Lee), is a heavy-handed but slick foray into the world of science fiction.
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This playful drama set in East Flatbush (one of Brooklyn’s few remaining ungentrified neighborhoods) follows black teenage geniuses Cj (Eden Duncan-Smith) and Sebastian (Dante Crichlow) as they cope with their kooky families and grow up against the violent backdrop of police brutality.
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This playful drama set in East Flatbush (one of Brooklyn’s few remaining ungentrified neighborhoods) follows black teenage geniuses Cj (Eden Duncan-Smith) and Sebastian (Dante Crichlow) as they cope with their kooky families and grow up against the violent backdrop of police brutality.
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- 5/5/2019
- by Lena Wilson
- The Playlist
Plus One Photo: Guy Godfree
The winners of the Tribeca Film Festival Narrative Feature and Documentary Audience Awards were announced this afternoon. The Narrative Feature Audience Award went to Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer's Plus One, starring Maya Erskine, Jack Quaid, Ed Begley Jr., Rosalind Chao, Beck Bennett, and Finn Wittrock.
Gay Chorus Deep South Photo: Adam Hobbs
Stefon Bristol's See You Yesterday, produced by Spike Lee, with Eden Duncan-Smith and Dante Crichlow earned second place.
The Documentary Narrative Audience Award goes to David Charles Rodrigues's Gay Chorus Deep South on the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus's tour through the deep south with the Oakland interfaith Gospel Choir.
Second place went to Lesley Chilcott's Watson on Captain Paul Watson, co-founder of GreenPeace and Sea Shepherd.
Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award winners and second place finishers will join the jury award-winners with additional screenings on Sunday at...
The winners of the Tribeca Film Festival Narrative Feature and Documentary Audience Awards were announced this afternoon. The Narrative Feature Audience Award went to Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer's Plus One, starring Maya Erskine, Jack Quaid, Ed Begley Jr., Rosalind Chao, Beck Bennett, and Finn Wittrock.
Gay Chorus Deep South Photo: Adam Hobbs
Stefon Bristol's See You Yesterday, produced by Spike Lee, with Eden Duncan-Smith and Dante Crichlow earned second place.
The Documentary Narrative Audience Award goes to David Charles Rodrigues's Gay Chorus Deep South on the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus's tour through the deep south with the Oakland interfaith Gospel Choir.
Second place went to Lesley Chilcott's Watson on Captain Paul Watson, co-founder of GreenPeace and Sea Shepherd.
Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award winners and second place finishers will join the jury award-winners with additional screenings on Sunday at...
- 5/4/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Stefon Bristol’s debut feature “See You Yesterday,” which has Spike Lee as one of its producers, revolves around the ingenuity of two 16-year-old friends, Claudette and Sebastian (Dante Crichlow), who are working on a homemade time machine in Sebastian’s garage. The effects in this movie are as charmingly lo-fi as the backpack modules that they wear to travel back in time for 10-minute intervals.
“See You Yesterday” nods to some of its 1980s forebears by having Michael J. Fox turn up as one of their teachers at the Bronx High School of Science. Claudette is reading Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” in his class, while Fox has his nose buried in Octavia Butler’s “Kindred,” a popular time travel novel from 1979. When Claudette tells Fox’s Mr. Lockhart about her time-travel backpack project, which she hopes will get her into MIT, Bristol keeps his camera...
“See You Yesterday” nods to some of its 1980s forebears by having Michael J. Fox turn up as one of their teachers at the Bronx High School of Science. Claudette is reading Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” in his class, while Fox has his nose buried in Octavia Butler’s “Kindred,” a popular time travel novel from 1979. When Claudette tells Fox’s Mr. Lockhart about her time-travel backpack project, which she hopes will get her into MIT, Bristol keeps his camera...
- 5/4/2019
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Netflix has launched the trailer for Spike Lee’s hard-hitting time travel drama, ‘See You Yesterday’.
Directed by Stefon Bristol and produced by Lee, Lee’s latest is a sci-fi adventure grounded in familial love, cultural divides and the universal urge to change the wrongs of the past.
The film stars Eden Duncan-Smith, Dante Crichlow, Brian ‘Astro’ Bradley, Johnathan Nieves, Marsha S. Blake, Wavvy Jonez, Myra Lucretia Taylor and Ron Bobb Semple.
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The film launches on Netflix May 17th
See You Yesterday Synopsis
High school best friends and science prodigies C.J. and Sebastian spend every spare minute working on their latest homemade invention: backpacks that enable time travel. But when C.J.’s older brother Calvin dies after an encounter with police officers, the young duo decide to put their unfinished tech to use in...
Directed by Stefon Bristol and produced by Lee, Lee’s latest is a sci-fi adventure grounded in familial love, cultural divides and the universal urge to change the wrongs of the past.
The film stars Eden Duncan-Smith, Dante Crichlow, Brian ‘Astro’ Bradley, Johnathan Nieves, Marsha S. Blake, Wavvy Jonez, Myra Lucretia Taylor and Ron Bobb Semple.
Also in trailers – Chucky is on the warpath in trailer for ‘Child’s Play’
The film launches on Netflix May 17th
See You Yesterday Synopsis
High school best friends and science prodigies C.J. and Sebastian spend every spare minute working on their latest homemade invention: backpacks that enable time travel. But when C.J.’s older brother Calvin dies after an encounter with police officers, the young duo decide to put their unfinished tech to use in...
- 4/23/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Principal photography has completed on Netflix’s upcoming film “See You Yesterday,” a time-travel film written and directed by newcomer filmmaker Stefon Bristol and produced by Spike Lee through his 40 Acres and a Mule production banner.
Netflix plans to release the film in 2019.
Based on Bristol’s NYU thesis short film, which was also produced by Lee and streamed on HBO last year, “See You Yesterday” follows C.J. and Sebastian (Eden-Duncan Smith and Dante Crichlow), two African-American prodigies who build a time machine in the hopes of using it to save C.J.’s brother from being wrongfully killed by a cop.
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Netflix plans to release the film in 2019.
Based on Bristol’s NYU thesis short film, which was also produced by Lee and streamed on HBO last year, “See You Yesterday” follows C.J. and Sebastian (Eden-Duncan Smith and Dante Crichlow), two African-American prodigies who build a time machine in the hopes of using it to save C.J.’s brother from being wrongfully killed by a cop.
Also Read: Spike Lee to Receive Career Achievement Award From Palm Springs International Film Festival
“I started this project when Mike Brown and Eric Gardner were murdered. That was in 2014. And we are still dealing with deadly police misconduct. I made this film because I don’t...
- 12/12/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
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