Just how liberal does writer-director Adam Leon expect audiences to be? His movie, "Gimme the Loot," depicts a pair of teenage vandals who go around New York writing and spray-painting their names ...
More stories by Nigel M. “Gimme the Loot” follows Malcolm (Tysheeb Hickson) and Sofia (Tashiana R. Washington), a pair of scrappy young graffiti artists trying to make their mark on the Bronx scene.
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First time filmmaker Adam Leon made Gimme the Loot on a small budget culled from friends, family and a small Kickstarter campaign. It played at the SXSW Film Festival in 2012 and took home the Grand ...
For a movie as much in love with New York’s outer-borough street life as Adam Leon’s Gimme the Loot, it will not do just to talk about the film. That’s what Leon insists, and so I find myself heading ...
Watch a clip from the film "Gimme the Loot." When their latest work is buffed by a rival crew, two graffiti writers embark on an elaborate plan to bomb the ultimate location: the New York Mets' Home ...
The Loot has been got, apparently. Apple TV+ announced today that the Maya Rudolph workplace comedy would return for another season. The series, created by Alan Yang (Master Of None) and Matt Hubbard ...
A big winner at last year’s SXSW, this palm-sized Bronx indie about a couple of graffiti bombers aiming to gain fame by tagging the Mets’ Home Run Apple runs on nothing but biodiesel personality.
Girls’ John Cameron Mitchell Isn’t a Real EditorCome on, fans who approach him on the street! He’s acting. Director Adam Leon on Gimme the Loot, Graffiti, and Cultural Voyeurism“I’d been working with ...