Wendy Jane's Soul Shake

Flack (Dylan Itkin) and Flick (Ethan Itkin) of flickandflackmovietalk.com

I often watch the Oscars with my friend, Anisa Raoof,  now Executive Director of the Providence Children’s Film Festival, and always tell her that her 13 year-old twin boys, Dylan and Ethan Itkin, are going to be up on that stage one day collecting their Oscars.

It seems ever since pre-school, Dylan and Ethan have been into movies–watching them,  reviewing them, and critiquing them.  They’ve now grown into writing screenplays, and making and directing their own films with neighborhood friends.  I remember […]

This past weekend, I attended a private screening party of Ava DuVernay’s film, Selma, which was held at the Providence Place Mall Cinema.  The event was sponsored by the Providence NAACP, and the Rhode Island Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women.

DuVernay’s Selma, focuses on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s work and planned marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965, and the many working with him, and against him, to further civil rights causes, in particular the fight to pass the Voting Rights Act.  Like many who  during the post-film dialogue referenced the ages they were during this time period, I remembered how old I was– […]