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CONTENT
Cortlan McManus's cinema productions are produced through the Push Art Boom! division of his company ReBirth Cinema LLC.

Beginning with our first feature screenplay that was developed as an undergraduate thesis working with famed playwright Gus Edwards, my cinema work fuses narrative devices into a creative arrangement of fiction and documentary.

CONTEXT
Our trademark genre of productions are called ethno-visual narratives.

Generally speaking, these ethno-visual narratives, our films, draw upon the following:

1) Social anthropology through ethnographic fieldwork and/or participant observation
2) A historical text revisited and re-envisioned in the present day to offer a new and more profound reading
3) A use of cinematic language informed by the masters and challenged by finding new forms

COMMUNITY
Having worked in more then twenty countries and across countless spoken languages including English, Spanish, German, Gaelic, Arabic, French, Persian and Berber, relying on our ability to collaborate with all communities, our successes have been amplified through these great partnerships.

Please explore our films and comment on them as we join hands extending the community even further.