Fantasy A Gets A Mattress
''Fantasy A Gets a Mattress'' is a 2023 American independent comedy film written and directed by Noah Zoltan Sofian and David Norman Lewis and produced by Sofian, Lewis, and Safiye Rose Senturk. The film stars Fantasy A and is based loosely on his life and sections of his memoir, ''Life in the Eyes of an Autistic Person''. Plot After coming home past curfew, Fantasy A gets kicked out of his group home for disabled adults. While searching for a new place to sleep, Fantasy A interacts with an ensemble cast of characters as he simultaneously seeks superstardom. Cast * Fantasy A as Himself * Acacia Porter as Asia Rose * Logic Amen as Ramon * Aaron Billingsly as Zander * Ready Ron as Ed Jones * Keosha Lovely Fredricks as Lil Rude Puss * Chris Zapata as Glenn * Miles Stanberry as Male Model * Osato Cooley as Osato * Elizabeth Navarro as Annabelle * DoNormaal as Crystal * Louis Wilson as Louis the Bartender * Charles McKinney as Scabby * Tony Beck as Grady * Margaret Channon as Canvas ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fantasy A
Alexander Leroy Hubbard (born May 23, 1993), better known by his stage name Fantasy A, is an American rapper from Seattle, Washington working in the hip hop music, hip hop genre, as well as a songwriter, actor, and author. He is best known for his extensive guerrilla marketing and performance in the film ''Fantasy A Gets a Mattress''. Early life Fantasy A was born in Seattle, Washington, where he was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. He attended Thurgood Marshall Elementary as well as Cleveland High School (Seattle) before graduating from The Center School (Seattle, Washington), The Center School in 2011. While in high school he gained an interest in literature and wrote three books later published as ''School Rich'' (2012), ''Life in the Eyes of an Autistic Person'' (2012), and ''Life in the World of Gabe Fabens and Sage the Scholar'' (2013). Career In the mid-2010s Fantasy A began to gain notice in the Seattle area for his guerrilla promotional campaigns where he would ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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South Sound Magazine
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', ), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). South is sometimes abbreviated as S. Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Mudede
Charles Tonderai Mudede (; born February 8, 1969) is a Zimbabwean-American writer, filmmaker,Patricia O'Brien (a.k.a. OlallieLake)Charles Mudede short documentary film. Uploaded to YouTube 2007-07-27. Accessed 2012-12-20. and leftwing cultural critic. Though born in Kwekwe (then called Que Que, Rhodesia), he spent much of his childhood in the United States, and returned to Zimbabwe shortly after independence.Charles MudedeOur Wars: Three Vignettes from Thirty Years Ago in Africa ''The Stranger'', 2010-08-16. Accessed 2012-12-20. Between 1982 and 1988, his mother, Tracy Mudede, was a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, and his father, Ebenezer Mudede, was an economist for the Zimbabwe government. Between 1990 and 2001, his father worked as an economist for the Botswana government and his mother lectured at the University of Botswana. In 1989, he moved to the US to study literature, art history, and political philosophy. His parents moved to the US from Botswana in 2002 for med ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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High Country News
''High Country News'' is a monthly independent magazine based in Paonia, Colorado, that covers environmental, social, and political issues in the Western United States. Syndicated stories from ''High Country News'' have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Atlantic'', ''Rolling Stone'', and other national publications. The non-profit High Country News media organization also produces a website, special reports, and books. Tom Bell, a Wyoming conservationist, rancher, and decorated World War II bombardier, started a newspaper in 1970 that would become the ''High Country News''. He died at the age of 92 in 2016 in Lander, Wyoming, where he had founded ''High Country News''. In 2017, ''High Country News'' became the first non-Native American publication to establish an Indigenous Affairs desk as part of an effort to attract new readers and improve their coverage of Native American issues. Funding ''High Country News'' has more than 35,000 subscribers. In 2017, it received ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bainbridge Island Film Festival
Bainbridge Island Film Festival (BIFF) is an annual four-day film festival held on Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States during the second week of November. Venues include the Lynwood Theatre, Bainbridge Cinemas, and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. It is one of the largest festivals in Washington, featuring a variety of independent American and international films, as well as a significant selection of documentaries, with a focus on films produced in the Pacific Northwest. History The festival—originally called the Celluloid Bainbridge Film Festival—was founded in 1998, launched by Kathleen Thorne (Program Manager for the Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council) and the nonprofit Arts & Humanities Bainbridge, and hosted out of the Lynwood Theatre. Originally, the festival was a part of the Bainbridge Island Arts Walk, however it soon developed into a standalone two-day event. The scope of the festival was films made by Bainbridge Island filmmakers ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New/Next Film Festival
New/Next Film Festival is an independent film festival based in Baltimore, Maryland founded in 2023. In May 2023, it was announced that Baltimore radio station WYPR, in partnership with former Maryland Film Festival director of programming Eric Allen Hatch, would hold the New/Next Film Festival in August 2023, taking place at The Charles Theatre. The festival was planned as a reaction to the news that Maryland Film Festival was not holding a 2023 event. The first New/Next Film Festival was held August 18–20 in Baltimore's Charles Theatre. The inaugural edition of New/Next presented over 20 feature films. Among the features screened was the world premiere of the documentary ''Carpet Cowboys,'' directed by Noah Collier and Emily MacKenzie and executive produced by John Wilson. The festival also screened over 50 short films, including the U.S. premiere of work by Lael Rogers and world premieres of work by Harrison Atkins, Albert Birney, Marly Hernandez Cortes and Stephen Schuy ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oak Cliff Film Festival
Oak Cliff Film Festival is a film festival held annually in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. It showcases films made by or featuring individuals from Texas and the surrounding region. Its programming spans every genre, focused on independent, non-mainstream films both narrative and documentary. About Oak Cliff Film Festival (OCFF) emphasizes programming experimental, nontraditional, and low-budget independent films otherwise overlooked by more mainstream festivals. Events at the festival include drive-in movies, live orchestrations of silent films, screenings of newly remastered older films, and Texas/Dallas premieres. OCFF, partnered with the Austin Film Society, filmmaker David Lowery, and Tim Headington’s Ley Line Entertainment to offer grant funds for emerging North Texas filmmakers. This initiative included the North Texas Pioneer Film Grant of $30,000, specifically aimed at promoting filmmakers from the Dallas-Fort Worth area with underrepresented perspect ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Capital City Film Festival
The Capital City Film Festival (CCFF) is an annual film festival held in Lansing, Michigan. The festival is held every April using a variety of venues across the city as screening locations. Past venues have included: the Fledge, Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears ( ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosen ... Frandor, Hot Water Works, The Avenue, the Lansing Center, the Lansing Public Media Center, The Loft, Mac's, Robin Theatre, Harem, The Exchange, Lansing Community College, the Michigan Historical Museum, Impression 5 Science Center, Riverwalk Theater, R.E. Olds Transportation Museum, Central United Methodist Church and the Temple Building. Recognition Named one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World by MovieMaker Magazine. Recipient of an Applause Award for Arts and Cultural Organization ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oska Bright Film Festival
Oska Bright Film Festival is a film festival held annually in Brighton and Lewes in East Sussex. It showcases films made by or featuring individuals with learning disabilities, autism, and Asperger's and is the largest festival in the world with this focus. Its programming spans every genre, from comedy and sci-fi to documentary and dance. History Founded in 2004, the Oska Bright Film Festival (OBFF) was founded by a group of learning disabled artists involved with the nonprofit organization Carousel who were frustrated by the lack of representation and opportunities for publicly screening their film work. The festival continues to be affiliated with and receive financial support from Carousel. In 2019, Oska Bright was recognized as a BAFTA-qualifying festival and has been added to Section B of the BAFTA Qualifying Festivals List for both the British Short Film Award and the British Short Animation Award. Some years of the festival have included satellite screenings held in di ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Spokane, Washington
Spokane ( ) is the most populous city in eastern Washington and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It lies along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the Canada–United States border, Canadian border, west of the Washington–Idaho border, and east of Seattle, along Interstate 90 in Washington, Interstate 90. Spokane is the economic and cultural center of the Spokane metropolitan area, the Spokane–Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area, and the Inland Northwest. It is known as the birthplace of Father's Day (United States), Father's Day, and locally by the nickname of "Lilac City". Officially, Spokane goes by the nickname of ''Hooptown USA'', due to Spokane's annual hosting of the Spokane Hoopfest, the world's largest basketball tournament. The city and the wider Inland Northwest area are served by Spokane International Airport, west of Downtown Spokane, which is located near a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Inlander (newspaper)
The Inlander may refer to: * The Inlander, a sternwheeler that worked on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada from 1910 until 1912 * ''The Inlander'' (newspaper), a free weekly newspaper published in Spokane, Washington * The Inlander (Queensland Rail) a passenger train in Queensland, Australia {{DEFAULTSORT:Inlander, The ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Spokane International Film Festival
Spokane International Film Festival is a film festival held annually in Spokane, Washington, United States, during the first weekend of February. It emphasizes films made by or featuring individuals from the Pacific Northwest and is one of the largest film festivals in Washington and the region. Spokane International Film Festival (SpIFF) showcases a varied program of short, mid-, and feature-length films—both narrative and documentary—from both around the world, with an emphasis on featuring films from the Pacific Northwest. History Founded in 1999, the festival—originally called the Spokane Northwest Film Festival—was formed by the Spokane-based nonprofit Contemporary Arts Alliance (CAA), with Bob Glatzer serving as the inaugural artistic director. The festival continues to be affiliated with and receive financial support from CAA. The name of the festival was changed to Spokane International Film Festival in 2002 to emphasize the widening scope of the programmers. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |