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Mama Bears Makes the Case for Empathy Toward LGBTQ Communities – dCFF22
June 8, 2022

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Today we continue our exclusive deadCenter 2022 coverage with a look at this year’s deadCenter opening night film from director Daresha Kyi, Mama Bears. Kyi sits down with us on The Cinematic Schematic to talk about how she first learned about the Mama Bears organization…

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The Seeds of Greenwood Tells Inspiring Stories of Fellows Program – dCFF22
June 6, 2022

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How do you raise a new generation to overcome more than a hundred years of setbacks?

The Cinematic Schematic continues our exclusive deadCenter 2022 coverage with a look at another tried and true festival tradition, a public OKC Thunder Films screening….

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Out of Exile Brings the Big Screen Crime Thrills to deadCenter – dCFF22
June 5, 2022

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Bank heists. Family character drama. Twisted morality. If you like to see any of these elements at the movies, writer/director Kyle Kauwika Harris’s new film premiering at this year’s deadCenter Film Festival, Out of Exile, is a must-see. It’s a “one last job” crime thriller complete…

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The Battle of Honey Springs is deadCenter’s Historical War Movie – dCFF22
June 4, 2022

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In this exclusive deadCenter 2022 interview, we sit down with writer/director Bryan Beasley to discuss his new film and the festival’s war movie this year, The Battle of Honey Springs. Beasley talks about how the battle had direct impacts on the US Civil War and helped…

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The Official 2022 deadCenter Film Festival Sneak Peek
June 1, 2022

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Today kicks off our exclusive coverage of the 2022 deadCenter Film Festival! To help listeners prepare for what to expect, The Cinematic Schematic is joined by the deadCenter director of operations+festival, Miranda Patton, and the deadCenter director of programming, Sara Thompson, to discuss this year’s…

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Alex Garland And Toxic Masculinity, From ’28 Days Later’ To ‘Men’
May 23, 2022

Men – the mystifying 2022 film from writer-director Alex Garland and studio A24 – brings to mind the social media hashtag #YesAllWomen, which arose in conjunction with the #MeToo movement and ushered into the online public discourse story after story of women suffering in myriad ways under…

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