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Damien Chazelle Critics Choice ExcerptLast night, the 2016 Critics’ Choice Awards handed out the top prizes to various categories in film and television, further heating up the awards race. Damien Chazelle’s musical breakout La La Land took top honors for film, while Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley nabbed the highest awards in the television race.

moana-excerptDisney’s latest continues their track record for subverting the “princess” template with an empowering tale of a young female leader who goes above and beyond their capabilities for the greater good of her family and community — and there isn’t a love interest in sight. But there is a Demi-God and two lovable animal sidekicks.

moana-excerptDisney’s 56th animated feature film Moana, tells the story of a young woman on the fabled Motunui Island who sets off on a quest with the legendary demi-God Maui to help save her village. Recently, voice actors Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson as well as composer Lin-Manuel Miranda shared some stories about the production of Disney’s empowering Oceanic adventure.

Logline: A young girl on a quest to rescue her lost family teams up with a broken demi-god and ends up healing a 1000-year-old rift that has fractured the Pacific.