**LWLies 104: The Bird issue**

Published Dec 2024

_In the issue_

**Lead review: Nickel Boys**

Sam Bodrojan lauds a harrowing modern masterpiece for its boldness, humanity and formal poetics.

**The Interior Self**

Leila Latif discovers how filmmaker RaMell Ross made a Pulitzer Prize- winning novel his own.

**The Invisible Man**

Actor Ethan Herisse on the challenges of sculpting a performance and building a character from behind the camera.

**Hard Labour**

Leila Latif gets personal with the formidable actor and by-proxy activist, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.

**Ways of Seeing**

Jourdain Searles discovers how cinematographer Jomo Fray refreshed traditional concepts of the camera eye.

**Sacred Images**

Sophie Monks Kaufman writes in praise of cinema that channels human brutality while rejecting its lurid visual nature.

**Community Matters**

Rōgan Graham celebrates the world of grassroots advocacy organisations built to promote diversity in cinema.

**I See A Darkness**

Cheyenne Bart-Stewart speaks to writer/ director Rungano Nyoni about her new film, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

**About Little White Lies**

Little White Lies magazine is the leading independent voice in film, combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism to champion great movies and the people who make them.

Each issue of the magazine dedicates its entire front section to an upcoming theatrical release, drawing inspiration from the themes and visual tone of the carefully selected film. The back section features essential reviews of the latest movie releases, plus exclusive interviews, festival reports and more.

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