Emma Dunlop-Walters Emma Dunlop-Walters

What We Can Learn From Tick Tick…Boom, Jonathan Larson’s Autobiographical Musical

When times are tough we look around for inspiration or success stories about people who have been in our position and succeeded. These stories are all around us but we don’t pay attention to them until we need them.

When I needed inspiration, I came across Tick Tick...Boom! on Netflix and it has become a bit of an obsession for me. It’s an autobiographical musical about a man who kept going even though the odds were against him. I needed to hear his story and now I am going to tell you why it is a good source of inspiration.

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Elena Koprtla Elena Koprtla

Film review: Nomadland

The definition of nomad is a person who does not stay long in the same place, moves from one place to another; a wanderer.

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Film, Review, Documentary Elena Koprtla Film, Review, Documentary Elena Koprtla

Honeyland: There is no life in the hunger for profit

Twenty five years after the nomination in the Best Foreign Film category for Milčo Mančevski's Before the Rain, one Macedonian film was an Oscar candidate in two categories - Best Documentary (Feature) and Best International Feature Film. Honeyland announced an international campaign with the triumph at Sundance in 2019, but no one expected such an incredible success.

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