Winter Dunn And The Silent Seduction In ‘Play Hard’

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One factor we discovered from talking with the Black filmmakers in this yr’s “Rising Voices” competitors at Tribeca Competition is that cinephiles in every single place are in for a deal with if issues go in accordance with plan.

A part of that’s as a result of incoming rise of Winter Dunn. She’s a director, producer, actress in her personal proper and already a NAACP Picture Award winner — final yr she took house “Excellent Brief Kind (Reside Motion)” for her 2Pac-inspired 2022 quick movie, Pricey Mama. A number of years earlier than that was Junebug in 2020, which itself was propelled by her work as a producer on the 2019 SXSW crowd favourite, Jezebel. With Play Laborious, her newest pageant darling that had us hooked from begin to end, it’s clear that Winter is aware of what she’s doing no matter what aspect of manufacturing she’s standing on.

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Assisted by wonderful chemistry between actress Alexis Floyd (Gray’s Anatomy, Inventing Anna) and rapper D Smoke as co-stars, Play Laborious takes fairly the distinctive method for a movie that spans simply 14 minutes by eradicating majority of the dialogue and permitting the music and motion to hold the narrative. The choice proved to be genius, all whereas holding within the competitors’s theme of capturing “the way forward for work” by displaying the significance of all the time making room to play irrespective of how arduous issues get.

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Taking a fast break whereas on set of her subsequent undertaking — hopefully extra on that later! — Winter gave us a breakdown of her greatest works to this point, and why Play Laborious holds a particular place in that roster. She additionally talks on the significance of all the time holding tradition within the dialog, and why narratives for Black women and girls particularly stay the precedence.