Few personalities encapsulate the brilliantly mad spirit of genre cinema more completely than Canadian actor Michael...

“Once I get started, I won’t be able to stop.” It’s 1 a.m. in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and I’m sandwiched between...

If 2018 was the year Sundance struggled to answer how much of its DNA is market-driven...

The 2018 Oxford Film Festival (February 7-11, 2018) was a beguiling mix of southern history and...

An all-encompassing media art showcase, New Media Film Festival (NMFF) continues to carve its own niche...

Nestled tightly in the mountains of Southern Colorado, Durango Independent Film Festival’s (February 28-March 4, 2018)...

The fourth annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (MLFF) announced this year’s juried and audience award winners...

Lurking in the midwestern shadows of Indianapolis and Cincinnati lies something full of more horror than...

“I’ve always felt that the gender disparity on screen is the most easily-fixed area of inequality,”...

If the state of nonfiction storytelling today could be summarized in a single phrase, it would...

The festival circuit is a beating. Like traveling salesmen of the past, we, the indie moviemakers...

“Bound by Film” was the slogan of the 2018 Küstendorf International Film and Music Festival (January...

A piercing white patch of light trapped between pitch black sky, glowing ethereally against the silhouettes...

From the moment you arrive at the airport in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley follows you around...

Taking off from Barcelona, my plane crested a sea of clouds, thick and white like tundra....

Living in Portland, Oregon has its advantages if you’re a film geek. Plenty of beautiful scenery, delicious...

Yonkers, just north of New York City, might conjure images of political intrigue, Son of Sam,...

Like ships coming in to dock at the city’s urban port, burgeoning moviemakers arrived at Tacoma...

While accepting an award from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists at the Whistler Film Festival...

The New York Festivals Awards take place during the annual National Broadcasting Convention (NAB) Show, held...

The Black Cat Picture Show film festival is a strange slice of paradise hidden in the...

Film festivals are as good as their programmers and audiences, and the deadCenter film festival has...

Due to its placement in late Fall and the strength of its programming team, AFI Fest...

When Woods Hole Film Festival Director Judy Laster invited me to work for her 26th annual...