?If there?s family, there?s respect. If there?s respect, there?s honor. If there?s honor, there?s word. If there?s word, there?s peace.? Among the Wag?u people of northern Columbia, family is the basis for everything. If that is not cared for, step by step, all values...
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...
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...
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...
?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...
?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...
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...
?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...
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...