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Darrel Manson

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Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts

Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts

Feb 12, 2019

When it is time to award the best in films each year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences include three categories of short films in their Oscar presentations. Most people don?t get to see many shorts. They play at festivals, and occasionally in front of...

Oscar-Nominated Short Documentaries

Oscar-Nominated Short Documentaries

Feb 11, 2019

When it is time to award the best in films each year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences include three categories of short films in their Oscar presentations. Most people don?t get to see many shorts. They play at festivals, and occasionally in front of...

The Isle – Creepiness Is Not Enough

The Isle – Creepiness Is Not Enough

Feb 8, 2019

?This is a dead isle. We?re only here because we have no choice.? In The Isle, three seamen survive an unexplainable shipwreck. They find themselves in a rowboat in thick fog. When the fog begins to lift, they see an island and make their way to it. They find that...

The Golem – Savior or Destroyer?

The Golem – Savior or Destroyer?

Feb 1, 2019

?When a man tries to play God, the darkness awakens.? Based in Jewish folklore, The Golem is a tale of looking for a savior, but finding instead destruction. Set in seventeenth century Lithuania, a Jewish village is under attack by local Gentiles who blame the Jews...

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 4

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 4

Jan 29, 2019

Covering Slamdance has been a bit different for me because I didn?t actually attend the festival. Through filmmakers and publicists sharing screeners with me I?ve covered the film festival from the warmth of southern California. (As I write this it?s currently 33 F in...

I Am the Night – TV Noir

I Am the Night – TV Noir

Jan 28, 2019

?Some stories you can?t tell. Some stories don?t want to be told. Some stories will eat you alive.? TNT?s limited series I Am the Night is a large dose of noir for the small screen. It is moody and ominous, but with a certain moral light flickering amidst overwhelming...

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 3

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 3

Jan 28, 2019

Since most of the films (exceptions: Boni Bonita and This Teacher) I?m reporting on today are docs, I?d like to highlight some documentary filmmakers who have premiered work at Slamdance: Marilyn Agrelo (Mad Hot Ballroom), Seth Gordon, (King of Kong: A Fistful of...

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 2

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 2

Jan 27, 2019

Slamdance is designed to focus on new and emerging filmmakers. Over the last 25 years it has produced an impressive alumni list, including (with some of their more well known films): Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk, Batman Begins, Memento), Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamiite),...

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 1

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 1

Jan 26, 2019

Welcome to Slamdance. While most of the world is familiar with the Sundance Film Festival, they may not have heard of Slamdance, a renegade festival also held in Park City, Utah, the same week. Slamdance?s mantra is ?By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers?. It is celebrating...