Shaz Bennett
@shazbennett.bsky.social
Director. Writer. Fighter.
Queen Sugar, Billions, Bosch, Ordinary Joe, Animal Kingdom, Rescue HI Surf
Queen Sugar, Billions, Bosch, Ordinary Joe, Animal Kingdom, Rescue HI Surf
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McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring
January 14, 2026 at 11:10 PM
McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring
with everything... i can't stop thinking about my friend Josslyn's book and another troubled time when art and filmmakers stood together to create change. read her book. get inspired. only 8 days in to 2026. we need the dreamers and artists to guide us and push us into the streets!
Thank you for including my book, Toward a More Perfect Rebellion in your holiday shopping guide! So wonderful to work with you and be in the company of such inspiring writers!
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#IoFAuthors
January 9, 2026 at 2:18 AM
with everything... i can't stop thinking about my friend Josslyn's book and another troubled time when art and filmmakers stood together to create change. read her book. get inspired. only 8 days in to 2026. we need the dreamers and artists to guide us and push us into the streets!
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"FBI is leading the investigation."
State and local electeds, law enforcement, and prosecutors need to come up with a plan to prosecute and charge murder by the feds because this federal jurisdiction loophole they've invented cannot hold as a means of avoiding accountability. People won't have it.
State and local electeds, law enforcement, and prosecutors need to come up with a plan to prosecute and charge murder by the feds because this federal jurisdiction loophole they've invented cannot hold as a means of avoiding accountability. People won't have it.
ICE/CBP just shot two people in Portland.
January 9, 2026 at 12:04 AM
"FBI is leading the investigation."
State and local electeds, law enforcement, and prosecutors need to come up with a plan to prosecute and charge murder by the feds because this federal jurisdiction loophole they've invented cannot hold as a means of avoiding accountability. People won't have it.
State and local electeds, law enforcement, and prosecutors need to come up with a plan to prosecute and charge murder by the feds because this federal jurisdiction loophole they've invented cannot hold as a means of avoiding accountability. People won't have it.
let's go!
“Ice Out For Good Los Angeles” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
“Ice Out For Good Los Angeles” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Ice Out For Good Los Angeles · Indivisible
Wednesday, January 7th, an American citizen was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This killing is part of a broader pattern of unchecked violence, impunity...
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January 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
let's go!
“Ice Out For Good Los Angeles” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
“Ice Out For Good Los Angeles” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
“Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis · Indivisible
Join us to Thursday, January 8th, at 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT to discuss the killing by ICE in Minneapolis and their lawlessness and harm in communities across the country.
We will talk with local an...
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January 8, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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i love heist movies! congrats Ava!
Can't wait to see this.
NEW WORK IN A NEW WORLD open.substack.com/pub/avaduver...
Can't wait to see this.
NEW WORK IN A NEW WORLD open.substack.com/pub/avaduver...
NEW WORK IN A NEW WORLD
An unfiltered conversation with Terry Moran about my upcoming film, his upcoming book and the responsibility we all have in this moment.
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
i love heist movies! congrats Ava!
Can't wait to see this.
NEW WORK IN A NEW WORLD open.substack.com/pub/avaduver...
Can't wait to see this.
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Love this conversation and this film!
‘They Make Genocide Jokes’ - Israeli Comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi on Racism, Zionism, and Palestinian Liberation open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
‘They Make Genocide Jokes’ - Israeli Comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi on Racism, Zionism, and Palestinian Liberation open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
‘They Make Genocide Jokes’ - Israeli Comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi on Racism, Zionism, and Palestinian Liberation
Mehdi chats with the comic and activist about her radical upbringing in the ‘Oasis of Peace,’ her career switch from the UN to standup, and her powerful new documentary, "Coexistence, My Ass!"
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December 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Love this conversation and this film!
‘They Make Genocide Jokes’ - Israeli Comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi on Racism, Zionism, and Palestinian Liberation open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
‘They Make Genocide Jokes’ - Israeli Comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi on Racism, Zionism, and Palestinian Liberation open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Journey well Miss Viola.
Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre — when white attackers killed as many as 300 people, most of them Black — has died at age 111, the mayor said. She told Congress in 2021 that she lived through the massacre 'every day' reut.rs/4pt18LJ
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Journey well Miss Viola.
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Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died.
One of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre's last survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher, dies age 111
One of the last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma has died. Viola Ford Fletcher was 111.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died.
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Adrenochrome is a complete invention...what’s interesting about QAnon is this belief in secret cabals and control. It’s far more chaotic...a desire to believe... a displaced faith in God, except God was more open-minded. variety.com/2025/film/fe...
Terry Gilliam Confronts His Most Absurd Legacy: ‘I’m Responsible for QAnon’
Terry Gilliam revisits 'Fear and Loathing’s' warped legacy and his curious bond with Stanley Kubrick.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Adrenochrome is a complete invention...what’s interesting about QAnon is this belief in secret cabals and control. It’s far more chaotic...a desire to believe... a displaced faith in God, except God was more open-minded. variety.com/2025/film/fe...
This is sooo good!
And just a reminder to all the Academy members -- SINNERS should win all the things!
SINNERS | DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC | ShotDeck: Shot Talk youtu.be/NFeAAVB3HyU?... via @YouTube
And just a reminder to all the Academy members -- SINNERS should win all the things!
SINNERS | DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC | ShotDeck: Shot Talk youtu.be/NFeAAVB3HyU?... via @YouTube
SINNERS | DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC | ShotDeck: Shot Talk
YouTube video by ShotDeck
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November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is sooo good!
And just a reminder to all the Academy members -- SINNERS should win all the things!
SINNERS | DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC | ShotDeck: Shot Talk youtu.be/NFeAAVB3HyU?... via @YouTube
And just a reminder to all the Academy members -- SINNERS should win all the things!
SINNERS | DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC | ShotDeck: Shot Talk youtu.be/NFeAAVB3HyU?... via @YouTube
Message to Michael
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Message to Michael
Michael Kenneth Williams (November 22, 1966 - September 6, 2021)
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November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Message to Michael
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Steve Jobs, for example, said “think different” and made new products often built off the best characteristics of the old ones. What he did not do is employ the hackish jazz hands, “make things go boom” approach. To be fair, this works if you are 4 years old.
a man in a suit and tie is holding an apple in front of an apple logo and a sign that says think different
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding an apple in front of an apple logo and a sign that says think different
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Steve Jobs, for example, said “think different” and made new products often built off the best characteristics of the old ones. What he did not do is employ the hackish jazz hands, “make things go boom” approach. To be fair, this works if you are 4 years old.
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Pelosi: "Trump is the worst president of the United States that American children have ever had in terms of their health, education, a clean, safe environment in which they can thrive - including safety from gun violence - the economic security of their families and a future that is fair and just."
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Pelosi: "Trump is the worst president of the United States that American children have ever had in terms of their health, education, a clean, safe environment in which they can thrive - including safety from gun violence - the economic security of their families and a future that is fair and just."
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Pelosi: "President Trump is the biggest con job in American history"
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Pelosi: "President Trump is the biggest con job in American history"
loved this film and this conversation!
a beautiful script written during the Sundance they didn't get into!
How One Scene Narrowed The Search For The House In ‘Hedda’: “Can We Drop A Chandelier In Your Home?” – Contenders Los Angeles deadline.com/2025/11/hedd... via @Deadline
a beautiful script written during the Sundance they didn't get into!
How One Scene Narrowed The Search For The House In ‘Hedda’: “Can We Drop A Chandelier In Your Home?” – Contenders Los Angeles deadline.com/2025/11/hedd... via @Deadline
How One Scene Narrowed The Search For The House In ‘Hedda’: “Can We Drop A Chandelier In Your Home?” – Contenders Los Angeles
Hedda writer-director Nia DaCosta explained on the criteria they presented property owners when scouting the location for the 1950s-set film.
deadline.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
loved this film and this conversation!
a beautiful script written during the Sundance they didn't get into!
How One Scene Narrowed The Search For The House In ‘Hedda’: “Can We Drop A Chandelier In Your Home?” – Contenders Los Angeles deadline.com/2025/11/hedd... via @Deadline
a beautiful script written during the Sundance they didn't get into!
How One Scene Narrowed The Search For The House In ‘Hedda’: “Can We Drop A Chandelier In Your Home?” – Contenders Los Angeles deadline.com/2025/11/hedd... via @Deadline
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AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI.
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI.
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
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“Despite everything that’s happening in the world and everything around us and any frustration or helplessness we feel or betrayal we feel, we have to remember it’s also all right to feel the joy of being alive and feel the joy of your own possibilities,” Patti Smith says on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Opinion | Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever
Life lessons from the “Godmother of Punk.”
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“Despite everything that’s happening in the world and everything around us and any frustration or helplessness we feel or betrayal we feel, we have to remember it’s also all right to feel the joy of being alive and feel the joy of your own possibilities,” Patti Smith says on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
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In “Wake Up Dead Man,” Rian Johnson has tried a fiendishly difficult type of whodunnit: an “impossible crime” story. The danger of this kind of story is that, he says, the endings “are inevitably a little bit of a letdown.” Will he stick the landing? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pfmvvB
Rian Johnson Is an Agatha Christie for the Netflix Age
The director revived the cozy mystery with “Knives Out.” In a new sequel, can he find his way to the end of the maze?
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In “Wake Up Dead Man,” Rian Johnson has tried a fiendishly difficult type of whodunnit: an “impossible crime” story. The danger of this kind of story is that, he says, the endings “are inevitably a little bit of a letdown.” Will he stick the landing? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pfmvvB
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I think we all know that the Ai rewrite of the New Testament as prompted by studio algorithms and audience test screenings has Pilate pardoning Jesus, apologizing for the misunderstanding and crowning him King of the Jews at the royal palace. Also, add a hot love interest for the Savior.
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I think we all know that the Ai rewrite of the New Testament as prompted by studio algorithms and audience test screenings has Pilate pardoning Jesus, apologizing for the misunderstanding and crowning him King of the Jews at the royal palace. Also, add a hot love interest for the Savior.
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative.
deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
deadline.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative.
deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
deadline.com/2025/11/pope...