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Director Ken Marino on ‘How to Be a Latin Lover’ with Salma Hayek and Raquel...
Director Ken Marino recently discussed his first time directing a feature film – How to Be a Latin Lover – at the Los Angeles Film School after a screening of the film. Marino joined Backstory magazine...
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Interview: K. Rajagopal, Director of Films ‘Yellow Bird’ and ‘Lizard on the...
K. Rajagopal, one of Singapore’s most prominent filmmakers, is set to shoot his second feature film Lizard on the Wall as part of the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) 2017. Festival...
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Gary Sinise Shares a Life Changing Moment with Veterans in Film and Television
June 13, actor/director Gary Sinise spoke to the Veterans in Film and Television (VFT) Los Angeles chapter at the Hollywood American Legion Post. The event, which drew an overflow crowd, was part of a...
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TIFF Interview: Sam Pollard Discusses ‘Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me,’–...
Sam D. Pollard, director of ‘Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me’ (photo courtesy of this site) Samuel D. Pollard, award-winning feature film and television video editor, and documentary producer/director...
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Adobe MAX: Clicks, Picks, and Building Your Brand with Video
“If a tree falls in the forest…” No, wait. That’s too old-school. If a video posts on the internet and no one clicks on it, does it help your brand? No, and worse, you’ve wasted time and resources. The...
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Ten Films I Want to See Before the End of 2017
2017 is almost gone and it’s time to sort through a huge cache of quality year-end theatrical releases and bring back a regular feature from 2009 and 2010. Here is my top 10 list of films I definitely...
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HIFF, NYFF Review: ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Starring Armie Hammer, Timothée...
Critics have praised Timothée Chalamet’s stunning depiction of Elio in Call Me By Your Name, directed by Luca Guadagnino, and they’ve discussed Armie Hammer’s indelible portrait of Oliver also with...
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Analyzing The Oscar Nominations
This year’s Oscar nominations have recognized many talented people (23-year old Saoirse Ronan’s third nomination (Lady Bird)!) …and snubbed others (Michael Stuhlbarg in Call Me By Your Name…and the...
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Movie Review: ‘Django’
Django Reinhardt needs no introduction to jazz and blues aficionados. Indeed, Reinhardt remains one of the greatest jazz guitarists and composers of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Reinhardt rose...
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Athena Film Festival, ‘From Outrage to Power: Town Hall on Sexual Harassment...
Athena Film Festival held at Barnard College, Columbia University constitutes the only woman’s film festival in New York City. It numbers among a handful of women’s film festivals nationally. For four...
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SXSW 2018 Film Keynote: Darren Aronofsky’s Ten Commandments of Indie
At the SXSW Conference, in Austin, Texas, Academy Award-nominated and Brooklyn-born and raised director Darren Aronofsky delivered a film festival keynote. He first asked what made us different from...
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SXSW 2018 Film Interview: Talking VR with Telexist’s Sam Gezari
Among the more intriguing offerings at this year’s SXSW was the Virtual Cinema space at the JW Marriott. There, attendees had the opportunity to experience the next wave of immersive cinema. I was...
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SXSW 2018 Exclusive Interview: Filmmaker Jason Outenreath on His Immigration...
Making its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival was the feature-length documentary They Live Here, Now, conceived and directed by human rights filmmaker Jason Outenreath. Shot on location...
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Interview: Alicia Slimmer on Taking ‘Creedmoria’ from Idea to Distribution —...
I first saw Creedmoria in the summer of 2016 at the Dances With Films Festival in Hollywood. This coming-of-age flick, staring Stef Dawson (Annie Cresta in the Hunger Games films), blew me away with...
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Exclusive Interview: Maverick Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Larry Cohen’s life has been truly amazing. A maverick filmmaker who broke all the rules but nevertheless managed to triumph in Hollywood, his career continues to this day. Now his work is getting its...
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T’Challa and Killmonger Aren’t Martin and Malcolm No Matter How Much We Want...
T’Challa and Killmonger of the hit film Black Panther have been compared to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. This is an unsurprising lens through which to view the relationship between black leaders...
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San Antonio Film Festival Interview: Joshua J. Smith, Creator of ‘Buckshot’
Joshua J. Smith’s feature debut, Buckshot, is the story of Charlie Stillman (Conor Murphy), a struggling singer from New Jersey who travels to Nashville to follow in his late father’s footsteps and...
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San Antonio Film Festival Panel: ‘The Producer, The Director, The Actor, The...
On Saturday, Aug. 4, four film industry veterans took to the stage at the Carlos Alvarez Studio Theater at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts for a conversation about the ups and downs of working...
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RTX Austin: Zero-Budget Film Production, Right Before Your Eyes
Even the most modest film production, and I’ve done a few, tends to get expensive quickly. When I saw the panel “High Quality Production for $0.00!” on the agenda at RTX Austin, I immediately added it...
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RTX Panel: Writer’s Block Party
Sunday, August 5, 4:30 pm. Surely, this writer focused panel at the very end of the Rooster Teeth Experience (RTX) Austin 2018 wouldn’t be crowded. Wrong. To my amazement, even the writers for online...
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