All posts tagged "festival"
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Palm Springs International ShortFest 2019: 13 Moviemakers On The Joys and Perils of Making Short Films
By providing a space where short films can be appreciated without competing for attention alongside feature films, Palm Springs International ShortFest has positioned itself as...
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FilmQuest 2017: This Mormon Country Genre Fest Makes Every Outsider Feel at Home
A piercing white patch of light trapped between pitch black sky, glowing ethereally against the silhouettes of a mountain-perched farmhouse and one twisting, leafless tree:...
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New York Festivals 2017: There’s A Prize For Everyone and Everything At This Awards Gala in Vegas
The New York Festivals Awards take place during the annual National Broadcasting Convention (NAB) Show, held each spring in Las Vegas. Helmed by Executive Director...
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SENE Film, Music & Arts Festival 2017: Giving Back and Paying It Forward in New England
On a pleasant April evening in Warwick, Rhode Island, Alec Asten attended the opening night of SENE (Southeast New England) Film, Music & Arts Festival,...
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San Diego Underground Film Festival 2017: Experimental Yet Accessible Work Populates This Quirky SoCal Fest
Recognizing a void in Southern California for experimental and truly independent cinema, Ryan Betschart and Rachel Nakawatase decided to found an independent film festival in...
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Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival 2017: No Festival is an Island, Though This One Stands Apart
Seven years ago, I attended Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival with my first feature documentary, Beijing Taxi, a portrait of three Chinese cabbies on the...
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Portland Film Festival 2017 Preview: Co-Founder Josh Leake Teases Highlights, Diverse Programming, and More
With this year’s edition of the Portland Film Festival kicking off tomorrow, we spoke with co-founder and executive director Josh Leake about what to look...
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The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018
The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered hurricanes’ swift destruction of communities, withstood the wrath of...
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Festival Wrap: FilmQuest Impresses with its Second Edition
While Utah may be best known for the Hollywood hullabaloo of Sundance in Park City, another festival not far away caters to filmmakers and audiences...
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Portland EcoFilm Festival 2015 Wrap: Day One and Two
A thrill ran through our blood as we approached 2015’s Portland EcoFilm Festival. Last year’s festival transformed the way we saw the world. The festival’s...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...